
Kalil Star Earns Premier Accolade At KZN Breeders Awards
The evolving fairytale of a filly that couldn’t raise more than a R60 000 bid in the sales arena continued on Friday evening
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The evolving fairytale of a filly that couldn’t raise more than a R60 000 bid in the sales arena continued on Friday evening
The South African Jockey Academy (SAJA) held its 2024 Annual Awards Ceremony on Friday 6 December at the Summerveld Club House, marking a year of growth and success
Charyn and Kyprios have strengthened their Cartier Horse of the Year claims with Ascot victories
The highlight of the evening was the award of Horse of the Season – presented to the Allan Greeff-trained Joy And Peace, who also walked away with Champion 3 Year old filly and Champion Polytrack Filly trophy
The East Cape Awards returns on 6 September 2024 to Fairview
The top echelon sires will always have the added advantage of bigger books, higher fees and greater quality of mares. Yet it is heartening to see that horses like Dave The King, Princess Calla, Legal Eagle and Classic Flag are proof that any stallion is capable of siring a Horse of the Year
While the Equus Awards will be held on Thursday 15 August, the champions of some racing categories are decided on stakes and can already be announced
This year’s Equus Awards will effectively be decided solely by the opinion of an expert panel
The Hall of Fame’s eight-strong independent judging panel of experts from the racing industry put forward the short-list and now it’s over to you
City Of Troy and Porta Fortuna landed blows for this season’s three-year-old crop in two of the significant early clashes of the generations
The Hollywoodbets Durban July and Gold Cup Race meetings should settle a few debates.
South African horseracing falls under the Asian Racing Federation and the Graded status of races is decided by the Asian Pattern Committee (APC)
Explained – the circumstances behind the decision by the connections of the dual Grade 1- winning sophomore One Stripe to ‘bypass’ the R1,5 million SplashOut Gr1 Cape Derby on 22 February in favour of a likely final run on South African soil in the non-black type Big Cap
With the Aga Khan’s breeding and racing programme very much geared towards the classics, it can be argued that South Africa, where speed, rather than stamina is the hallmark of its racing programme, has failed to capitalise on the excellence of especially its female families
Rob Haswell tells that he has had horses trained by Nathan Kotzen for more than twenty years and pulls us up for our Umthombothi Stakes ‘flop’