Big weekend for TAB customers

TAB customers have a huge weekend ahead with top-drawer racing and a multitude of opportunities to win huge amounts of cash, including three carryovers to Cape Town’s race meeting of the year this Saturday.

The action kicks off this Friday with nine Group races at Meydan in Dubai, headed by the Group 1 Al Maktoum Challenge (Race 6) and Jebel Hatta (Race 7), in which Hong Kong’s globetrotting superstar Romantic Warrior goes for his eighth consecutive victory.

The normal range of bets will be offered on Meydan (use venue oval 14 to bet in TAB outlets). TAB Win, Place, Exacta, Quinella and Swinger bets on Races 6 and 7 will go directly into the Hong Kong World Pool tote and for technical reasons, these five bet types on the two races will be operated as a separate meeting. Consequently, mark venue oval 17 in TABs to take Win, Place, Exacta, Quinella and Swinger bets on Meydan Races 6 and 7.

Seven-year-old Romantic Warrior is being aimed at next month’s $20-million Saudi Cup, but this winner of Australia’s Group 1 Cox Plate and Japan’s Group 1 Yasuda Kinen will probably not have to be fully fit to reel off his ninth win in a row.

The World Sports Betting Cape Town Met heads Saturday’s extravaganza at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth and provides TAB customers with more opportunities to bet into Hong Kong’s huge tote pools. All TAB Win, Place, Exacta, Quinella and Swinger bets on Races 6 to 12 will go into the Hong Kong World Pool tote with average pool sizes ranging from R3 million for Exactas to R14 million for Swingers.

TAB online customers with loads of stamina can catch the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes at Gulfstream Park in Florida USA on Racing 240 in the early hours of Sunday morning (00:40). Now a $3-million race, the contest pits 2023 Breeders’ Cup Classic hero White Abbario against much-vaunted four-year-old Locked, who was sidelined by injury for most of last year.