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First entries for VDJ due on Wednesday
The first entries for this year’s R3 million Vodacom Durban July are due on Wednesday morning, April 14, as KwaZulu-Natal prepares to host Champions Season, three months of the best horse racing on the African continent. First nominations are due by 11 am but entries will only be revealed at a function to launch the season the following day. There are also two supplementary entry stages, the first on Monday, June 7 and the second on Monday July 5, but entry into the country’s premier horse race becomes progressively more expensive.

This year’s Vodacom Durban July will take place on the last Saturday of the Month, July 31 which is also the last day of South Africa’s racing season, a fitting climax to Champions Season.

The Clairwood stables are filling rapidly as visiting trainers settle in their strings for Champions Season with former Vodacom Durban July winner Pocket Power arriving last Monday along with nine stable companions from the Mike Bass yard. The balance of the Bass string arrived on Wednesday and includes J&B Met winner River Jetez.

The first wave of horses from the Dean Kannemeyer yard have also taken up residence including the Bloodstock SA Cape Guineas winner Noordhoek Flyer. Kannemeyer was in two minds about sending his star colt up this early but said; “I have decided to go for the KRA Guineas on May 2 and after that the Daily News 2000 will tell us whether he is ready for the Durban July.”

Justin Snaith has his first runner at Scottsville on Sunday where Maureen De Lago contests the Sunday Tribune Strelitzia Stakes (Grade 3) while Darryl Hodgson, once a familiar face in the KwaZulu-Natal trainers ranks before moving to Cape Town, has already got off the mark with Play Nice winning at Greyville last week and due to face hot-pot favourite Imperious Star in the Sunday Tribune Umzimkhulu Stakes (Grade 3) also to be run at Scottsville on Sunday.

Champions Season will be officially launched at a function at Greyville Racecourse on Thursday, April 15 but only really gets under way with the running of the KRA Guineas (Grade 2) and KRA Fillies Guineas (Grade 2) on Sunday, May 2.

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