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The Independent On Saturday Gr2 Drill Hall Stakes to be run over 1400m at Hollywoodbets Greyville, the traditional curtain raiser to Champions Season in KwaZulu-Natal, has attracted a quality field of twelve horses
Australia, Japan and The United States are represented in the Grade 1 ranks
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
Wednesday’s free-to-play Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge is available on the day’s local and Hong Kong meetings
Rouvaun Smit goes over the card for Wednesday’s Hollywoodbets Scottsville racemeeting
Dylan’s Champ from the Fabian Habib stable takes his place in the first and he should give punters a good start to the day
Hong Kong Jockey Club Chief Executive Officer Mr Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges has hailed 2025 FWD Champions Day as one of the best editions of the flagship meeting in a “very long period of time”
The National Punters’ Guide for today’s Vaal racemeeting has been published
‘It’s a case of the horse first. He is a really smart 3yo but he is still mentally and physically backward, and we’d rather let him progress through the winter and then plot a chart through the Cape Summer Season’
Maine Chance Farms’ Silvano stallion Vercingetorix, set to be crowned South Africa’s Champion Sire this term, was responsible for three of the four Hollywoodbets Scottsville Sunday feature winners
Breaking from gate 12 as an 89/1 outsider, Red Lion became the longest-priced winner in the race’s history as the six-year-old Belardo gelding tenaciously made all
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
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
