Express draw Whiteline Fever for charity race

The unveiling of the field for this year’s Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile took place at Emperor’s Palace with the 16 racehorses for the main Grade 2 race on the day being paired with each of the 16 celebrities, 16 media partners and most importantly, the 16 charities who will all receive proportionate amounts of the R1-million prize money, depending on the allocated horse’s placement.

Kempton Express, one of the media partners, has been paired with actor Justin Strydom and the charity Star Schools. The horse that will be running for Star Schools is number 10, Whiteline Fever, which was drawn at nine.

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Star School centres in Springs and Vosloorus focus on mathematics and sciences to achieve better and higher pass rates for these subjects between Grades 10 and 12. Since its inception, 2 400 learners have benefited from this project.

Phumelela racing executive, Clyde Basel, said this year’s Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile would be bigger and better than before, because of the greatly increased prize money donated for the 16 worthy charities by Peermont Emperor’s Palace and also the increase towards stakes.

“This event is a highlight on the Gauteng racing calendar and year on year proves to be a fun, exciting, successful race day that raises a lot of money for very worthy causes,” he said.

“We have been involved in this event for 10 years and this year we have increased the prize money to R1-m, all of which goes to charity. May the best horse win!” says Vusi Zwane, Peermont Group corporate affairs executive.

The MC at the event was celebrity Neil Andrews, who re-iterated what a wonderful event the Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile was. “Even the horse that runs last wins R50 000 for charity,” he said.

The Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile takes place at Turffontein on October 31.