In the Footprints of Giants
LANCE BENSON: Trainer Sean Miller’s remarkable training feat of six winners at Flamingo Park on Monday was a fitting tribute to his late father and mentor
18th April 2012
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LANCE BENSON: Trainer Sean Miller’s remarkable training feat of six winners at Flamingo Park on Monday was a fitting tribute to his late father and mentor
SARAH WHITELAW: South African bred broodmares are building up a respectable record at stud overseas – past records of 2yo champ fillies
LANCE BENSON: We have enough stodgy, starched fakes in action. Bring on the real people like Andrew Fortune and the public ratings can only go in the right direction.
SARAH WHITELAW: With the European flat season having just got under way for the 2012 racing season, it is a good time to look at sires who are likely to make their presence felt this year. It is a look at some of the potentially prominent stallions in the Northern Hemisphere for the racing year.
For those fatalists preaching that horseracing is a dying game, some fuel would have been provided by the sponsors at Scottsville, where the Baker & Baker Undertakers Maiden Plate closed the eight race programme.
LANCE BENSON: Nothing is more important in horseracing than picking the right horse, whether you are punting horses or buying them. Random swipes in the dark may have worked on the odd occasion but a scientific ordered approach to yearling selection dramatically reduces risk.
SARAH WHITELAW: Montjeu described as an “eccentric genius” died at 16 years at Coolmore
ROBYN LOUW: Why should we be rewarding what are essentially medicated cripples? Our views and priorities become seriously skewed when it’s only the results that count.
A son of South African stallion Badger’s Drift has recorded a dazzling victory in Kenya’s biggest race – the Kenya Derby
A high quality day of horseracing on Saturday 31 March was tarnished somewhat by logistical gremlins. In a world where we are able to share
There simply isn’t a better five days of Flat racing anywhere in the world! It all starts on Tuesday 17 June with three Gr1 races
It’s been confirmed – New Zealand reigning champion jockey Warren Kennedy has been booked to ride Confederate for trainer Fabian Habib on 05 July
The Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge day last Saturday produced some top-drawer racing and inspiring performances on the track
