Mike de Kock runners Vercingetorix and Sanshaawes draw 3 and 8 Read More

The export of horses provides South Africa with a foreign exchange income of R250-million per annum but trade is currently hampered by quarantine requirements and set backs. Collaborative Workshop looks at solutions. Read More

“He sits at the back, he looks after himself and he doesn’t pull. Robbie has felt, even as far back as the Guineas, that he wants further. That may or may not be correct, but he feels very confident.” Geoff Woodruff shares his thoughts on his Champions Day card Read More

After successful trial gallops, Greyville’s racemeeting for 25 April 2014 will go ahead as scheduled Read More

Remember the Kimberley Gold Rush? Fortunes were made and famous names emerged in the decades that followed. Barney Barnato, Cecil John Rhodes, and Ernest (later Sir) Oppenheimer. Read More

Past results of the Fillies Nursery fully justify its current grading and much lower prize money than the colts’ Gr1 equivalent. Read More

Come Champions Day Fayd’herbe is replaced by Anton Marcus who partners the grey daughter of Oratorio in the Gr2 Gerald Rosenberg Stakes. Read More

With three Group races scheduled for Sunday, it’s safe to say that Friday nights racing at Kranji is more of an entree than a main course. Read More

The SA Nursery is the first and only Gr1 event for 2yo’s on the Highveld. The race has a chequered history in the new millennium. Traditionally contested up the Turffontein straight, the distance was changed from 1160m to 1400m in 2002, and run around the bend – a stiff task for young 2yo’s, with the effect of the draw an added factor. Read More

Mary Slack: “I was a real horsey girl, a riding loony and my primary interest was riding. Racing came later, and the breeding later still.” Read More

There are six progeny of Avontuur’s super sire amongst the thirteen speedsters that line up in Saturday’s R1 million Gr1 Computaform Sprint to be run over the Turffontein 1000m. While a recordbreaking Var quartet finish is on the cards, the weight for age race is very competitive and there are many with chances Read More

There has been a confirmed case of African Horse Sickness in Robertson. State Vet Dr John Grewar brings us the latest. Read More

When you consider that in real terms this is a handicap, it is quite surprising that only ten will go to post Read More

8 of the runners here contested the Gr3 Sycamore Sprint over today’s course and distance. There is a significant difference though… Read More

It seems rather simple really. If Louis The King stays the 2450m of the R2 million Gr1 SA Derby at Turffontein on Saturday then he will make history and win the R7-million SASCOC Triple Crown Read More

Britain has recently struck a trade deal with China enabling them to ship thoroughbreds freely between the two countries. One can only imagine the enormous numbers of horses China would require to sustain a racing industry in its infancy. Read More