Trainer Crawford to maintain hot streak at Kenilworth
Cape horseman has saddled feature race winners around SA in the past eight days
If “the trend is your friend” on the stock market, racing’s trending trainer Brett Crawford is the one to follow at the Kenilworth meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Crawford holds the rare distinction of having saddled feature-race winners at four centres around the country in the past eight days. He started at Greyville in Durban on May 3, winning the grade 2 Drill Hall Stakes with Undercover Agent, and ended at Fairview in Port Elizabeth last Saturday with victory in the Listed East Cape Derby, courtesy of St Vladimir. “It’s a run of good luck,” the modest Crawford told Business Day on Monday, but with 100 winners already on the board this season, his followers will rightly argue that horsemanship plays a big role in his success too. Crawford should continue his hot streak with a particularly strong hand in the first four races at the Cape venue and said Fergie’s Rock and Pick Eight Captain should make the frame in race 1 over 1,200m. “Pick Eight Captain looks about ready...
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