English Football Club Brentford FC Becomes The First International Sports Team To Sponsor A South African Horseracing Event
English Football Club Brentford FC Becomes The First International Sports Team To Sponsor A South African Horseracing Event. Leading English Premier League side Brentford FC has announced that it will be sponsoring the Durban July, by doing this the company seeks to bring an excitingly innovative and intriguing international dimension to Hollywoodbets Durban July day on the 2nd of July, when it proudly sponsors the prestigious undercard of the R1 million Gr1 Garden Province Stakes.
Gold Circle Marketing Executive Steven Marshall labelled South Africa’s newest Grade 1 sponsor ‘a win for South African horseracing and a scoop for the country’s flagship day’, he said in a statement, “We have great pleasure in welcoming Brentford FC to Durban. The Garden Province Stakes is one of the premier attractions on the SA Champions Season programme and history shows that it always hosts the best fillies and mares from across South Africa. Having an internationally recognised football side like Brentford FC – who boast a global following – on board is a feather in the cap for all stakeholders, and represents an appeal for Africa’s greatest horseracing event to a wider market of sports fans.”
The Brentford FC Garden Province Stakes is the supporting Grade 1 feature to the R5 million Hollywoodbets Durban July to be run at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Africa’s premier day of horseracing. Alongside the Gr1 Schweppes Majorca Stakes and the Gr1 HSH Princess Charlene Empress Club Stakes, the Garden Province Stakes is a potential Equus championship clincher and the season’s final leg of the unofficial fairer sex weight-for-age mile ‘Triple Crown.
Jon Varney, CEO of Brentford, said in a statement, “Our proud association with Hollywoodbets has grown in leaps and bounds over the past two years and, as a club and corporate entity, we share many of the same values. We look forward to sponsoring the Garden Province Stakes and being represented at the home of the Durban July, Hollywoodbets Greyville, on the big day to share in the great African celebration of the sport of horseracing.”
