My quest to win a big race in racing continues and the next one, where I have a runner and have a chance, is the Emerald Cup.  It is being run on Saturday, 27 September 2014 at the Vaal Racecourse.  It is a sandtrack, but this is the biggest sand race of the year in South Africa and Jet Jamboree, who is now 7 years old, will be fancied by many to win, despite the fact that he is carrying the top weight.  That will add extra pressure of course, and I have never ever had a horse win four races in a row and that is one of the things that concerns me.  Ever since he was gelded, he has been a new horse altogether, but to win four in a row is just so exceptional and so unlikely that I cannot help but think that it counts against him.  What does count in his favour however is that he has a very good draw – he has been drawn number 2 and on this track, and starting on the bend, that is an incredible advantage with one of his main opponents, Uncle Tommy, having been drawn badly.  There are unknowns in the race such as White Line Fever, being a horse who has run in all the top races in the country, trying the sand for the first time and it being the top race for sand horses in South Africa, it has obviously drawn a very talented field.  The first prize is R625 000,00, so I will be holding thumbs that it is finally my turn to come first and not have another second or third in one of these major races of the year.