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Justin Snaith may have unwittingly thrown punters a curved ball on Tellytrack recently. He suggested in a routine interview that Port Elizabeth is the perfect
13th February 2012
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Justin Snaith may have unwittingly thrown punters a curved ball on Tellytrack recently. He suggested in a routine interview that Port Elizabeth is the perfect
Pietermaritzburg may well feel like a million miles from Melbourne Down Under. But two top sprinters retained their respective unbeaten records in a great weekend
Cape racing is facing change and many challenges in the months ahead. But the biggest singular hurdle that crops up every now and again is
How does a seemingly dumb ride become a clever ride in less than two minutes? Ask top heavyweight rider Bernard Fayd’herbe. Tiger Wright’s talented grandson
LANCE BENSON: Phumelela will no doubt be wanting to make an early impact in the Western Cape. While the totalisator outlets and the lot of the punter are unlikely to be high on their new-broom agenda, it can only pay them to devote some attention to this embarassingly inadequate aspect of their business.
ROBYN LOUW: With Phumelela taking the reins as of the first of Feb and our new brooms no doubt wanting to sweep clean, perhaps now is the time to address what appears to be a glaring hole in our armour and look at a few issues of good old communication.
SARAH WHITELAW: One of South Africa’s best performed and well bred young stallions is the Kingmambo horse Mambo In Seattle. Now standing at Moutonshoek, Mambo In Seattle’s sale to South Africa was greatly assisted by leading US bloodstock agent, Alistair Roden.
It has been a nightmare of a freaky fortnight for South African horseracing. Why is it that the corporate cancer of bad publicity so quickly
Crashing back down to mama earth. That’s the simplest way of describing the swing from Saturday’s Met party down to the country freshness and simplicity
LANCE BENSON: The battlers who spent pocket money on PA’s, and studied form rather than physics before even failing Matric. We idolised household names like Bert Abercrombie, Dana Siegenberg and Herbie Lasker . We eat, drank and slept racing forever.
But today we are just so horribly yesterday and out. We may as well change our Saturday routine and buy a second-hand fishing rod at Cash Converters. Maybe that way we’ll actually hook a Bass?
ROBYN LOUW: I’m going to set aside all the tat – the gossip that so readily flows after a social event, hideously inappropriate comments from people who should know better having to be retracted by lesser mortals who should have put a stop to it in the first place; bungled track inspections; price-inflating buy backs; and the negative, discouraging comments from those factions always so eager to see a star fall from grace.
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
