22nd August 2019
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“I don’t have a ride in the July – not yet, in any case! You always hope right until they jump!” Ian Sturgeon shares his thoughts on horsemanship and his 2015 July ride on Punta Arenas
The Ideal World mare Zante picked up a deserved black type success rather late in her track career at Scottsville on Sunday
The Lucky Houdalakis-trained Horse Chestnut filly Joan Ranger broke the dream run of fancied runners on Champions Day when she stormed home full of running to open her stakes account
We should really give our professional jockeys a little more leeway and credit than the bollocking that is the standard retort of the grandstand brigade
The penultimate fully professional racemeeting on the Vaal sand track is being held on Tuesday. The racing operator then throws a R680 000 bone to owners and trainers, with an eight race workrider meeting restricted to maidens bringing the curtain down on Thursday.
“The Vaal sand is not a racetrack and I can’t imagine there is a worse track anywhere else on earth,” says multiple champion jockey Piere Strydom
The Clairwood midweek meeting on 18 October will be a memorable milestone for Apprentice Girish Goomamy. The 18yo in his second year at the SA Jockey Academy booted home his first winner when riding a sensible race in the second event on Raging River for Charles Laird.
‘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’
