HORSE RACING
Justin Snaith does it again in July — ‘properly’ this time
The 2018 renewal of the Vodacom Durban July at Greyville on Saturday delivered an afternoon of fine achievements.Youthful trainer Justin Snaith won the third July of his career with three-year-old gelding Do It Again and also filled the second and third places with Made To Conquer and Elusive Silva, the first time this had been done since 1990.Snaith said he was delighted to have won the big race "properly": "The first time I won it we had a dead heat [Dancer’s Daughter with Pocket Power, 2008], then I won it in the stipes’ boardroom [Legislate was placed first after an objection against Wylie Hall, 2014]."Alec Hogg, commenting on his BizNews blog, wrote: "Now in their late 30s, the Snaith brothers [Justin and Jonathan] are poised to dominate local racing for years to come. And with the end finally in sight of a decades-long struggle to grant South African horses the right to compete globally, their next step will be taking locally bred horses into the global arena."Jockey Anton Mar...
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