Post race information and news relating to major horse races. We review and analyse how these races played out and discuss the details relating to performance and any other interesting facts people in the horse racing industry find useful.
Gaynor Rupert’s Drakenstein Stud dominated proceedings on the opening day of the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Festival on a glorious Cape summer’s afternoon at Kenilworth on Friday with a feature double
Drakenstein Stud’s five time Gr1 winning Cartier Champion celebrated another locally bred stakes success when his daughter Princess Irene continued her climb up the ladder
With over fifty horses running at Kenilworth this weekend, Justin Snaith still found some time to travel the 2000km round trip on Wednesday to Fairview to grab the first feature trophy of 2019.
The Mauritzfontein-owned 3yo Landela is a galloping advert for the ‘move your horse to PE’ lobby
At the final Cape racemeeting of 2018, held at a sun drenched Kenilworth on Saturday, Crawford introduced another decent looking sprint prospect into his powerful attack
While the Computaform Sprint is the chief medium term target, the Gr1 Cape Flying Championship to be run on Sun Met day could well be on the radar
On a day where the Joburg raiders battled to get a shout in edgeways, Calvin Habib rode a beautifully judged race from off the pace on the Hill galloper, who also gave her beautifully bred sire a first SA stakes winner
SA Champion jockey Lyle Hewitson comes out of his time in a matter of days
The Maujean-Laing combination were a thorn in the side of the champion Cape visitors, denying them in both legs of what looked a decent double bet.
Pleasedtomeetyou showed that sprinting could be his A-game at this stage of his career when he won the Need For Speed Sprint at Kenilworth on Saturday – the final feature of the Cape season for 2018
After a health scare on Friday, ruling Cape champion jockey Aldo Domeyer was in fine form at a sundrenched Kenilworth on Wednesday
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
The businessman was served with an interim suspension of his Assistant Trainer licence on Friday afternoon and has spoken out about what appears to be mostly a misunderstanding based on a potential lack of communication and bureaucratic red-tape challenges
