PREMIER’S CHAMPIONS CHALLENGE
Experts feel Legal Eagle faces tough task in coming Challenge
Can Legal Eagle, a favourite of punters from the moment he stepped on a racecourse, deliver the goods one more time in Saturday’s R4m Premier’s Champions Challenge at Turffontein? This is the big question being debated by pundits, but Gauteng bookmaker Lance Michael feels Sean Tarry’s champion may battle to take top honours. Formerly owned by Markus Jooste, Legal Eagle will more than pay back his purchase price for his new owners if he takes the first cheque on Saturday. There has been no word from connections, but this might be the Greys Inn gelding’s final appearance before he is retired. Business Day readers will remember that Lance Michael suggested Nother Russia could put "money in punters’ pockets" by winning the recent Empress Club Stakes, and so it proved with Mike de Kock’s mare producing a sustained finish to get to the front close home. "If the Empress race hasn’t taken too much out of her, you have to believe she’s a serious runner on Saturday. But while I give Fort Embe...
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