Reigning SA champion trainer Justin Snaith looks to hold a powerful hand in Saturday’s R2 million Gr1 Daily News 2000, with his dual Gr1 winner Eight On Eighteen spearheading a four-cornered attack in a field of seven
Was the last galloper to win a race on SA soil with a seriously hefty impost Buddy Maroun’s champion Golden Loom, aka ‘Goofy’, who lumbered 65 kgs under Anton Marcus to beat Fov’s Favourite 26 years ago?
In Time Is Money this week, we look at some of the highlights of the last two KZN racemeetings
After falling just short at the Kentucky Derby two weeks earlier, 3-year-old colt Journalism won the 150th Preakness Stakes in a photo finish at the old Pimlico Race Course
‘He simply just doesn’t like Johannesburg. We were really hoping he was going to win here as we know how good he is’ – Mike de Kock
The businessman was served with an interim suspension of his Assistant Trainer licence on Friday afternoon and has spoken out about what appears to be mostly a misunderstanding based on a potential lack of communication and bureaucratic red-tape challenges
When Selukwe carried Sabine Plattner’s familiar silks to victory in last weekend’s World Sports Betting 1900, he added further lustre to a female family which stretches all the way back to the fine racemare Arctic Sweep
Justin Snaith’s Eight On Eighteen heads the first Hollywoodbets Durban July log
An Inquiry has been set down for Monday 19 May, where the balance of the jockeys charged in the protest action will face the music
Ridgemont’s red-hot five time Grade 1 winning sire Canford Cliffs enjoyed a prestige success North of the Limpopo on Saturday
Rest of the World will be captained by Mauritian jockey Karis Teetan, who has ridden over 700 winners in Hong Kong including the likes of top-level stars Romantic Warrior and Ka Ying Rising
In the late 80s, South African breeders were highly skeptical of sons of Mr Prospector. The main criticism was that he was ‘a dirt stallion’ and we race on turf
Alan Greeff’s recent Eastern Cape ‘Triple Crown’ star My Best Shot and the Lucky Houdalakis galloper Musical Score, a 3yo son of Oratorio, and a winner of his last two starts, are the two newbies
