Out Of The Blue On A Friday
Candice Bass-Robinson bids for a third successive win in the R400 000 Cartier Gr2 Sceptre Stakes on Friday
3rd January 2019
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Candice Bass-Robinson bids for a third successive win in the R400 000 Cartier Gr2 Sceptre Stakes on Friday
The R400 000 Gr2 Sceptre Stakes headlines the opening day of the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Festival Of Racing today
Candice Bass-Robinson registered her second Gr2 success in the space of three weeks when the Avontuur-bred Trippi filly Live Life won the Gr2 Sceptre Stakes
Two top-class sprinting mares square up in the topliner on what is surely the best Friday of horseracing ever hosted at Kenilworth
The final fields for the 2017 edition of the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Festival will be announced on Thursday 29 December
SA champion trainer Sean Tarry will be on a deserved high after his sensational L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate victory last Saturday and he could follow up and literally ‘carry on’ at the same venue this weekend
Cold As Ice’ superb win was some fine timing for the appearance of her half-sister by Trippi in the Cape Premier Yearling Sale ring this coming Thursday evening
Punters were on the receiving end of a feature race hammering at Kenilworth on L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate day but some sanity could prevail at the same venue today
Saturday’s Grade 2 Sceptre Stakes is one of South Africa’s top sprint races for fillies and mares.
Welwitschia looks to have a bright chance of banking the spoils on offer in the Gr2 Sceptre Stakes to be run at Kenilworth on Saturday.
There are few men that have left a larger impression on horseracing and life than the late Graham Beck. The Gr2 Graham Beck Memorial Sceptre Stakes will feature on a raceday at Kenilworth in January that will include the Listed Graham Beck Sun Classique Handicap and the Listed Graham Beck Jamaica Handicap
‘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
