Bling And The King
After running second in 2018 with Rose In Bloom, he returned to the scene on Saturday with his trojan filly and made amends in style.
24th February 2019
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After running second in 2018 with Rose In Bloom, he returned to the scene on Saturday with his trojan filly and made amends in style.
Justin Snaith’s Kasimir rounded off the Cape summer’s ‘triple crown’ of speed with a thrilling victory
Cape lightweight jockey Anthony Andrews doesn’t get a lot of quality opportunities but he showed his talent when maintaining his nerve and taking full advantage of a handy weight
In front of a crowd suggested by some observers to be possibly larger than Sun Met day, the R150 000 Listed Kenilworth Cup jumped in front of the stands and got the Cape Summer Season feature finale jackpot out of the gates under glorious summer skies.
Joey Ramsden and S’manga Khumalo hit a nice patch of form at Kenilworth last Saturday
Vaughan Marshall spotted the Listed Lady’s Pendant as a potential confidence booster for the major centre stakes performer Canukeepitsecret
The well-related Drop Kick gave the Shongweni Mixed Sale a timely fillip
Trainer Chesney van Zyl will be relocating from Gauteng to Summerveld and celebrated a smart feature winner
When the rains came and forced a move of the meeting to the twilight zone on a sleepy Turffontein Sunday, the Gr3 Tommy Hotspur Handicap lived up to the expectations of a curved ball result
The stats show that less than 1% of Var’s winners are achieved over 2400m plus, but his tough daughter Gottalottaluv was not stopping as she galloped powerfully all the way to the wire
The R750 000 Wilgerbosdrift Gr2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas produced the finish of the afternoon at Turffontein on Saturday
Sensational six winners at the Vaal on Thursday for former SA Champion!
Was the last galloper to win a race on SA soil with a seriously hefty impost Buddy Maroun’s champion Golden Loom, aka ‘Goofy’, who lumbered 65 kgs under Anton Marcus to beat Fov’s Favourite 26 years ago?
The Ndoro Stud-bred son of Wilgerbosdrift’s War Front stallion Fire Away, Alec Laird-trained Fire Attack dominated the 2025 Highveld Feature Season Awards
In the late 80s, South African breeders were highly skeptical of sons of Mr Prospector. The main criticism was that he was ‘a dirt stallion’ and we race on turf
