Jockey Felix Coetzee makes no bones about how good his record-breaking mount Silent Witness is. ”He’s the best horse you could ever hope to ride,” says the South African. ”I’ve ridden close to 3 000 winners and I will never ride anything like him again. He’s a superstar, a supreme athlete. He’s just a once-in-a-lifetime horse.”
World number three Ernie Els said on Wednesday that he was itching to get back into contention for golf’s biggest prizes after a disappointing United States Masters where he finished a distant 47th. The triple major-winner, launching his bid to become the first three-time winner of the Johnnie Walker Classic, said he would use the tournament to correct the ”technical faults” which plagued him at Augusta.