Should we allow the jockey to play a bigger role in the promotion of racing?
Ride Guide pays riders to give their opinions on their mounts at specific meetings, but was flagged by stewards as posing problems with integrity and financial arrangements.
Please read on
Comments Policy
The Sporting Post encourages readers to comment in the spirit of enlightening the topic being discussed, to add opinions or correct errors. All posts are accepted on the condition that the Sporting Post can at any time alter, correct or remove comments, either partially or entirely.
All posters are required to post under their actual name and surname – no anonymous posts or use of pseudonyms will be accepted. You can adjust your display name on your account page or to send corrections privately to the Editor. The Sporting Post will not publish comments submitted anonymously or under pseudonyms.
Please note that the views that are published are not necessarily those of the Sporting Post.
Any ideas for likely riders? Have your say
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
Rafeef is fast establishing a fine reputation as a stallion who has the ability to sire stakes winners across the speed and stamina spectrum
If successful, he would join Frankel as one of only two odds-on winners of this race in the last 30 years
Taken in isolation, none of Bjorn Fortuin’s recent performances wouldn’t warrant a headline but his efforts with the ball underwrote the Lions’ surge to the T20 Challenge
The old firm of multiple SA Champion Apprentice Rachel Venniker and her mentor, trainer Michael Roberts, celebrated a century of winners at Hollywoodbets Greyville on the Worker’s Day public holiday
