A sister to Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas prospect Boundless Energy and a mare with a back story of perseverance, Peter Muscutt’s Bevies Delight fought on courageously to win the River Indigo Handicap
While the 2024 Betway Summer Cup day will go down as a best show yet for 4Racing, the Highveld showpiece also provided the thrills and spills on the Turffontein track, the R224 437 big race quartet dividend telling the story
Just a week after some scintillating feature performances from his progeny One World daughter World Of Alice powered home to win the Betway Gr3 Fillies Mile at Turffontein on Saturday
Rachel Venniker can ride with the best of them and she celebrated a Betway Summer Cup day double rounded off with a powerful ride to win the New Turf Carriers Gr3 Merchants on Mount Pilatus for Paul Matchett
British trainer Ralph Beckett admits local star Ka Ying Rising looks an ‘absolute monster’ but is relishing the chance to take him on in the HK$26 million Gr1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint
Horseracing in KwaZulu-Natal took the next step to the dawn of a new era with the publication on Thursday of a revitalized racing programme and the news of the introduction of incentives and stakes adjustments
Ho joins a select group of elite riders to reach the milestone – Douglas Whyte (1,813), Zac Purton (1,783), Joao Moreira (1,235), Tony Cruz (946), Brett Prebble (806), Karis Teetan (704), Gary Moore (694), Basil Marcus (671), Gerald Mosse (659) and Felix Coetzee (652)
There is nothing quite like the reveal of first entries for a marquee race and on 25 January at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth, one of these names will join the honours board with greats like Horse Chestnut, Politician and Pocket Power!
Who knows, perhaps Royal Victory’s success in last year’s race emboldened fellow KZN trainers to make the trek to Gauteng?
Second placed, All Out For Six, performed to 112 for beating the 110 rated line horse by a length (2 points) at level weights. His rating was adjusted accordingly from 107
The HK$24 million Gr1 LONGINES Hong Kong Vase will have added poignancy for Barzalona as it will be his final Gr1 start as Godolphin’s retained rider in France, before he takes up the role of first jockey to His Highness the Aga Khan in January
The official report states that an investigation has been opened into the circumstances which led to Babelicious (A Fortune), which paraded and proceeded to the start in red earmuffs, racing without blinkers, as carded
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
