When you look at the names of the winners and runners-up in the East Cape Derby and Dahlia Plate, there are no doubt that these races in Port Elizabeth are the breeding place of superstars.<\/p>\n
The winner of the Derby in 2009, Lizard\u2019s Desire, and the runner-up in 2008, Paris Perfect, went on to become international stars. A runner-up in the Dahlia Plate, Bold Silvano (2009), won the 2010 Vodacom Durban July.<\/p>\n
Mitchell Wiese was the last PE trainer to saddle a winner in the Derby. That was with Lizard\u2019s Desire in 2009.<\/p>\n
After that the winners all came out of Cape Town.<\/p>\n
The Capetonians look very strong again, especially True Master (Justin Snaith) and Coltrane (Joey Ramsden).<\/p>\n
Who can do it for the locals?<\/p>\n
We have to look towards trainers Yvette Bremner and Alan Greeff. Burlaine Forest (Bremner) and Way Clear (Greeff) look like the PE horses with the best winning chances.<\/p>\n
Champion EC trainer Gavin Smith will be looking for his third win in a row in the Dahlia Plate. He won it last year with Le Var and in 2010 with In A Rush.<\/p>\n
The Dahlia Plate (Listed) for two-year-olds will be run over 1 200m on Friday, May 10, and the Recall Derby (Grade 3) for three-year-olds over 2 400m is the highlight at Sunday\u2019s meeting at Fairview.<\/p>\n
RECENT WINNERS<\/p>\n
DERBY<\/strong><\/p>\n 2012: Tribal Dance DAHLIA PLATE<\/strong><\/p>\n 2012: Le Var Now read Henk<\/a> Steenkamp\u2019s latest tips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you look at the names of the winners and runners-up in the East Cape Derby and Dahlia Plate, there are no doubt that these races in Port Elizabeth are the breeding place of superstars. The winner of the Derby in 2009, Lizard\u2019s Desire, and the runner-up in 2008, Paris Perfect, went on to become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-19708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2011: Vengence
\n2010: Robert the Bruce
\n2009: Lizard\u2019s Desire
\n2008: Just Like Al
\n2007: Key Castle
\n2006: Captain Cook
\n2005: Vettriano
\n2004: Central Pacific<\/p>\n
\n2011: In A Rush
\n2010: Bob \u2018n Weave
\n2009: Youth Club<\/p>\n