HORSE RACING
Legal Eagle easily boosts Tarry’s winning tally
A "lap-of-honour" in a Group One race — surely not possible. Yes, it is because that is basically what racegoers witnessed with Legal Eagle’s performance in last Saturday’s HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes at Turffontein. Jockey Anton Marcus had no more than a steering job as Sean Tarry’s champion carried Markus Jooste’s colours to victory for the sixth time in a grade1 race. There were no challengers from the Cape or KwaZulu-Natal and it was left to Legal Eagle’s stablemate, French Navy, to run on for second place without ever challenging the winner. Derek Brugman, racing manager for Markus Jooste, understandably lamented that the plan to send the son of Greys Inn to compete in the US had to be shelved. "We could only fill four berths in a 15-berth plane so — from a financial perspective — the operation would just have been too expensive," said Brugman after the race. Legal Eagle now heads for the R4m President’s Champions Challenge on May 6 when hopefully there will be some st...
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