Horse Racing News: Pre-race news & previews and general racing news.
The high-riding Eastern Cape combination of Alan Greeff and Richard Fourie got the 2025 Champions Day feature action off to a flying start when the Varsfontein-bred Master Of My Fate filly Golden Palm showed her class to win the Wilgerbosdrift Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery
The Kannemeyer family have been making the ‘Great Trek’ from the Cape to the Champions Season in KZN for 52 years
Jockey protest led to stakeholder aggravation, embarrassment, financial losses, and robbed 52 horses a run and their owners close on R600 000 in potential stakes earnings with five races abandoned on the afternoon
Doug O’Neill’s Raging Torrent will attempt to win the Gr2 Godolphin Mile for the third time in his career and the second time in succession on 05 April at Meydan
All kinds of antics at the gates, but Sail The Sky declared a runner
The pack, headed by the strongly fancied favourite Regulation, chased hard in the straight, but the charitable advantage afforded to the son of Querari allowed him to steal the race by two and a quarter
Winter Games had his official merit rating increased from 91 to 98 after leading from start to finish to capture the Listed Kings Cup a
The Sporting Post can report that the Inquiry continued today in Johannesburg at the offices of the NHA
TAB Gr2 SA Nursery next for Mike de Kock-trained son of Rafeef!
The victory at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday of the 3yo World Of Our Own has attracted the attention of the Stipes, who will interview jockey Craig Zackey regarding his ride on the gelding on 2 March
The man who was setting the pace on MJ Odendaal’s Mont Tremblant was inexperienced 4kg-claimer Sifisokuhle Bungane who was having only his 23rd ride and has 1 winner to his credit
Frank Robinson and his staunch patron Sid Moodley look to have booked themselves a Hollywoodbets Durban July berth with Madison Valley
Reigning SA Horse Of The Year Dave The King became the third back-to-back winner this century of South Africa’s highest-rated Gr1 contest, the Hollywoodbets Gr1 Gold Challenge
Currently offered at 25-1 in the ante-post market, Dean Kannemeyer’s lightly raced 4yo The Real Prince is happy and healthy and on track for a run in the big one
In contrast to heavyweights of the modern era in Galileo, Sea The Stars and Dubawi, who have stamped their authority in classic spheres with excellent support from leading breeders, bona fide breed shaper Acclamation rose from far humbler beginnings
