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We take a quick look on Formgrids at the jockey stats for the last plus/minus 50 rides of Richard Fourie and Gavin Lerena.
It shows Fourie from 51 rides is on 15 wins and Lerena on 16 wins from 55 rides. Lerena then has 11 second places while Fourie has 4 and Fourie has 7 third places and Lerena has 6.
So, from a betting perspective and looking at prices and with an equal stake bet on each mount they rode you would have broken squarish with Richard and made a profit of about 12 units with Gavin.
Remember your best bet is with .
Obviously this would vary depending on when you looked, but all in all, the South African racing public have two very gifted riders to replace the likes of Piere Strydom and Anton Marcus who have geared down of late.
Making ongoing money on horseracing can be a very daunting task as many punters know but with careful study and consistency of riders like Fourie and Lerena punters can tip the scales.
Today is an eight race card at Turffontein and the first race is a mixed Maiden Juvenile race. The next three are Maiden Plates for older horses, followed by a FM 74 HANDICAP, then a race for horses with nett rating of 101 and below and the last two are for horses with nett rating of 75 and below. The highest merit rated horse running today is the 4 year old gelding PROPHET trained by Corne Spies and ridden by the 4 kilo claiming apprentice Trent Mayhew.
So today you can look out for Gavin Lerena at Turffontein. He is riding in all 8 races.
Tomorrow Richard Fourie will be riding at Fairview where he'll be riding all 8 races.
Richard Fourie will be riding in Kenilworth on 24 January 2024 - Cape Derby Day. He will be riding WILLIE JOHN in the Derby.
Both Richard Fourie and Gavin Lerena will be riding in the same meeting at the next Turffontein meeting which is on the day after the Cape Derby, which is Sunday, 25 February 2024.
Today's weather at Turffontein is partly cloudy with 30% chance of showers & thunderstorms.
For detailed and up-to-date weather remember to click the weather icon on the respective race cards.