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Bernard Faydherbe with Pocket Power (photo: Roxy Joubert)

A Champion Visit

Bernard Fayd’herbe recently took a drive out to Hemel ‘n Aarde to pay a visit to a special friend

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2008 Gr1 Vodacom Durban July (photo: Gold Circle)

Do You Remember?

Do you remember the 2008 Vodacom Durban July and that famous dead heat between Pocket Power and Dancer’s Daughter? Bernard Fayd’herbe shares his recollections

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Bernard Fayd'herbe (photo: hamishNIVENPhotography)

Winter Series Wonder

Bernard Fayd’herbe became the only jockey to win the Cape Winter Series on Pocket Power back in 2006. He is still the only jockey to have won the Series, only thanks to African Night Sky, he’s now won it twice!

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Has Marsh Got The Power Again?

The 156th running of South Africa’s oldest horseracing event at Kenilworth today could well showcase a defining moment in the next chapter of a sensational story

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Pocket Power

The Power Of Winter

The R1 million Cape Winter Series for three-year-old colts and geldings will forever be famous for unearthing the great Pocket Power

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Right Royal Racing

A lot has changed since 1861 and the race has grown in stature to become South Africa’s premier weight-for-age contest over 1600m

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Pocket Power

Winter is coming

There have been many pretenders to the throne, but there is still only one king of Cape Winter Series. Pocket Power triumphed in all three legs in 2006 and with the days drawing shorter and the temperatures becoming more temperate, we look ahead to the 2015 renewal of the Cape Winter Series.

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Dan de Wet

Last of the Summer Wine

Not too many studs can boast a Met win to their credit. Zandvliet has five. As well as a trophy from just about every other feature race in South Africa. On hearing the recent news that the farm is being sold, we caught up with Dan de Wet and had a look at the history of this illustrious stud.

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Winter Solstice

In The Footsteps Of A Giant

‘The wonderful characteristic of the Silvano progeny is that they also just get better with age and Power King is living proof of that. We earmarked him early for this series and he will be even better as a 4yo. He will thus get his chance for a tilt at Champions Season next year’

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This amendment places South Africa’s African Horse Sickness (AHS) free zone back on the Annex IV list as an authorised zone within South Africa from which registered equines are authorised for direct entry into the EU following the required in-country pre-export quarantine period

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