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Exciting filly Marhoona, who hails from the same female line as Avontuur’s resident sire Talk Of The Town, provided her stellar female line with yet another boost when she won the TAB Gr1 Golden Slipper
Trainer Barend Botes has been advised to crank up the former 2yo Champion filly for the May 31 renewal of the Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint
An exciting host of 28 individual Group 1 winners headlines entries for FWD Champions Day on Sunday, 27 April at Sha Tin
The fields for Champions Day, Day 3 of the 2025 4Racing’s The Championships, have been unveiled
Questions of why Wednesday’s Hollywoodbets Scottsville racemeeting could not have been switched to the Durban City track have been answered by Gold Circle Racing Executive, Raf Sheik
‘Pamela was not only a caring friend and much-loved racing partner but she was also the strongest woman I have ever met’ – John Freeman
Inothewayurthinkin stunned champion Galopin Des Champs to win the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup for trainer Gavin Cromwell and jockey Mark Walsh at Cheltenham last week
The Tarry galloper’s rating was increased from 103 to 108 after she won the 4Racing Gr3 Sycamore Sprint at Turffontein on Saturday
A filly by leading sire Zoustar has topped the 2025 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale after selling for $350,000 at Morphettville on Tuesday
Holding Thumbs reminds us a bit of the perpetual motion machine Saccharum, who raced for the Fleggs and was trained by the late Theo de Klerk in the 1970’s
Ridgemont’s red-hot five-time Grade 1 winning stallion Canford Cliffs maintained his extraordinary season with two of his talented progeny bringing it home for their sire
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
