Everything you need to know about 2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July runner, ARAGOSTA. This five-year-old should like the distance on offer and produced a good perofromance in the Grade 3 tabGOLD Derby.
7) ARAGOSTA 33/1
ARAGOSTA is a five-year-old stayer who comes into the 2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July with two prep runs in KZN. The first effort saw him finish last in the Listed Lonsdale Stirrup Cup before a much-improved showing in the Grade 3 tabGOLD Derby, finishing second and a length behind winner FUTURE PEARL where he was running on at the finish. Marco van Rensburg takes the ride for Mike de Kock.
Jockey: Marco van Rensburg
Trainer: Mike de Kock
Owner: Messrs M F de Kock, M Makepeace, L M Nestadt, J R van der Linden & Mrs N P Malherbe
Breeder: Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein
Sire: Rafeef (AUS)
Dam: Miss Galidora (IRE) by Galileo (IRE)
Age: 5
Colour: Bay
Sex: Gelding
Merit Rating: 116
Weight: 54
Draw: 7
Career Record: 29 runs (5 wins, 12 places)
Stakes Won: R2 386 875
Runs at Hollywoodbets Greyville: 9 (4 places)
Runs at 2200m Distance: 2 (1 place)
Notable Runs:
2nd in the 2024 tabGOLD Derby (Gr 3) 2400m
3rd in the World Pool Premier’s Champions Challenge (Gr 1) 2000m
3rd in the 2024 New Turf Carriers Western Cape Stayers (Gr 3) 2800m
2nd in the 2023 SplashOut 2200 (Gr 3) 2200m
2nd in the 2023 Track And Ball Derby (Gr 3) 2400m
3rd in the 2023 Lonsdale Stirrup Cup (Gr 3) 2400m
3rd in the 2022 Betway Summer Cup (Gr 1) 2000m
3rd in the 2022 Daily News 2000 (Gr 1) 2000m
1st in the 2022 WSB SA Derby (Gr 1) 2450m
1st in the 2022 Sea Cottage Stakes (Gr 3) 1800m
3rd in the 2022 WSB Dingaans (Gr 2) 1600m
Trainer Comments: “You have to always respect older horses at the bottom end of the weights. The 3-year-olds with the weights that they’ve got, have to be even better than their current form suggests. Whether he’s quick enough for the July, I don’t know, but he’s a hard-knocking campaigner”, Mike de Kock.
Winning Form Comments: Best MR:118. Finished well in the Grade 3 tabGOLD Derby last time. Place chance.
2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July
Saturday 6 July 2024
Hollywoodbets Greyville – 2200m – R5 000 000
| Draw | Horse | Odds | Mass | MR | Jockey | Trainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | GREEN WITH ENVY | 9/2 | 56,0 | 127 | C Zackey | D Kannemeyer |
| 10 | SEE IT AGAIN | 11/2 | 60,0 | 131 | P Strydom | M Roberts |
| 4 | FUTURE SWING | 8/1 | 54,0 | 110 | R Fourie | J Snaith |
| 11 | ORIENTAL CHARM | 8/1 | 53,0 | 121 | J P v'd Merwe | B Crawford |
| 1 | ROYAL VICTORY | 10/1 | 57,0 | 125 | M Yeni | N Kotzen |
| 9 | WINCHESTER MANSION | 25/2 | 56,5 | 124 | K Matsunyane | B Crawford |
| 17 | FLAG MAN | 14/1 | 55,5 | 126 | S Moodley | G van Zyl |
| 18 | FUTURE PEARL | 16/1 | 54,0 | 117 | G van Niekerk | S Tarry |
| 2 | BARBARESCO | 16/1 | 53,5 | 122 | G Lerena | J A Janse v/Vuuren |
| 8 | PURPLE PITCHER | 20/1 | 53,0 | 120 | P Mxoli | R Klaasen |
| 15 | COUSIN CASEY | 20/1 | 56,0 | 123 | S Khumalo | S Tarry |
| 12 | SON OF RAJ | 25/1 | 54,0 | 119 | C Habib | T Peter |
| 3 | HLUHLUWE | 25/1 | 54,5 | 120 | R A Venniker | J Snaith |
| 16 | DOUBLE SUPERLATIVE | 33/1 | 56,5 | 124 | D Muscutt | J Snaith |
| 7 | ARAGOSTA | 33/1 | 54,0 | 116 | M V'Rensburg | M de Kock |
| 14 | MASTER REDOUTE | 40/1 | 54,0 | 115 | C Orffer | A Nel |
| 6 | SHOEMAKER | 40/1 | 54,0 | 111 | D De Gouveia | M de Kock |
| 13 | MERIDIUS | 50/1 | 54,0 | 113 | A Mgudlwa | T Peter |
