Six month test shows positive results
Following a test period from April to September this year, draw-after-acceptance becomes a permanent fixture in the W-Cape.
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The highly anticipated first race on the revamped Hollywoodbets Greyville polytrack on Wednesday was well received by stakeholders, but was not without its drama
Cape lightweight Morne Winnaar has come a long way since being plucked from near ignominy by former Cape champion trainer Joey Ramsden over twenty years ago
The Rafeef purple patch continued in the 2025 Champions Season opener at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday with another crackerjack performer in the shape of Mon Petit Cherie who won the World Sports Betting Gr2 Fillies Guineas
A Transkei-born horseman who started as a Groom, the groundbreaking Lunga learnt the ropes from top men like Mitch Wiese, Glen Kotzen and Kumaran Naidoo
The National Horseracing Authority have advised that upon review of the patrol films of the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes run at Turffontein on 26 April 2025, it was established by the Stewards that Melech had not raced with a tongue tie
A double in tandem with Douglas Whyte at Happy Valley on Wednesday 7 May propelled Hugh Bowman to the 60-win milestone for the 2024/25 season
Bella Nipotina became the equal third-most expensive mare ever sold in the Southern Hemisphere when realising A$4,2m, the equivalent of R49 million, on a record-breaking evening at the Chairman’s Sale
