HORSE RACING
In-form Noble Secret has what it takes to win Cup
It is eight years since owner Costa Livanos’s colours were carried to victory in the Summer Cup but, according to Gauteng bookmaker Lance Michael, that drought will soon be over. "I feel Costa Livanos’s horse, Noble Secret, ticks all the right boxes for the Cup," said Michael on Monday. "His recent fifth in the Spring Challenge was the perfect prep, he hails from a top stable and has an excellent pedigree. He could make it a dismal Christmas for bookies." The Summer Cup — sponsored for the first time by G-Bets — is scheduled for Turffontein on December 1. Livanos’s Cup winner in 2010 was Flirtation and, as Mike De Kock pointed out in an interview earlier in 2018, he is overdue a change of fortune. "There are two people in racing who deserve a star. Costa Livanos hasn’t really owned a top horse since Flirtation, and Chris Gerber’s Moutonshoek Stud are breeding good runners — they are due a true champion." Bought by Form Bloodstock for R700,000 at the 2016 National Yearling Sale, Nobl...
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