Interview with Grant Maroun and his chance with ANFIELDS ROCKET.
Interview and video by Andrew Bon.
ANFIELDS ROCKET was rated one of the best of the three-year-old crop in 2023. He is a winner, to date, of the G3 Graham Beck Stakes and the G1 SA Classic.
Trainer Grant Maroun bought ANFIELDS ROCKET as a weanling on an online auction for a mere R11 000 – he was later bought and kept in training with Maroun, by Hollywoodbets.
The trainer said: “I thought they had written the stallion (Coup De Grace) off too soon, I felt there was still something there. We bought ANFIELDS ROCKET mainly on his looks having seen the videos of his conformation. He wasn’t flashy but he gave every jockey who rode him a good feel and they all said he was a very good horse. When we jumped him to pass him at the gates for the first time he showed us how good he was.”
His 2024 campaign started with a fair fifth to rising star MAIN DEFENDER in the Joburg Spring Challenge. He will make good improvement from there.