Plenty on Tellytrack this weekend

Tellytrack Channel 239 on the DSTV bouquet, will be providing an absolute
feast of high class action for South African racing fans this weekend and
SuperSport have also scheduled two slots of live, saturation coverage from
Epsom Downs in England on Friday and Saturday respectively.
The Tellytrack action begins with the Investec Epsom Oaks meeting from the
UK on Friday and then has an unbelievable package on Saturday that includes
the Gr 1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge meeting at Greyville, the OK Grand
Challenge meeting from Borrowdale in Harare, the Investec Epsom Derby
meeting from England and then the cherry on the top, the full meeting from
Belmont Park in NewYork, which will include the Mike de Kock-trained
Mubtaahij’s bid to win a potentially history-making event as the brilliant
Bob Bafffert-trained American Pharoah attempts to become the first horse
for 37 years to win America’s coveted Triple Crown.


Furthermore, SuperSport Select (channel 210) will have nearly three hours
of live saturation coverage of the Investec Epsom Oaks meeting on Friday
from 15:00 until 17:45 and SuperSport 6 (channel 206) will be screening the
Investec Epsom Derby itself on Saturday from 17:20 until 17:50.


The Investec Epsom Oaks meeting starts at 15:00 South African time with the
Gr 3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes and other big races are the Gr 3 Investec
Diomed Stakes at 16:10 and the Gr 1 Investec Epsom Oaks at 17:30.


The Gr 1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge is the only race in South Africa that
was rated in the International Federation of Horseracing
Authorities’ (IFHA) top 100 races in the world.


The ten race Rising Sun racemeeting on Saturday begins at 11:30 and the
feature races are the Non-Black Type Durban Dash at 13:15, the Listed Devon
Air Stakes at 14:00, the Listed Gatecrasher Stakes at 14:35, the Gr 2
Tibouchina Stakes at 15:10, the Gr 1 Rising Gold Challenge at 15:45 and
the Gr 3 Cup Trial at 16:25.


The OK Grand Challenge meeting begins at 11:50 and the Gr 2 OK Grand
Challenge will be run at 15:25, where Borrowdale Racecourse are expecting
over 60 000 people to participate in the great Shop, Gallop and Win
promotion! No less than 44 cars will be given away on the day as well as 15
plots of land, plus cash prizes amounting to $25 000 and many other great
treats on the day.


The Investec Epsom Derby meeting begins at 15:00 South African time. The Gr
1 Coronation Stakes will be run at 16:10 and the Gr 1 Investec Epsom Derby
will be run at 17:30.


The Belmont Park racemeeting has eleven races that begin at 17:35 South
African time. The big one, the Gr 1 Belmont Stakes, will be run at 00:50 in
the early hours of Sunday.


There will be full South African TOTE betting facilities for all of these
meetings.

Fantastic well done