Secret Potion Is The Tonic
The Takingthepeace 2018 SA Triple Tiara dream gave us all a great ride while it lasted, but sadly came undone at the final hurdle at Turffontein on Saturday.
5th May 2018
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The Takingthepeace 2018 SA Triple Tiara dream gave us all a great ride while it lasted, but sadly came undone at the final hurdle at Turffontein on Saturday.
South Africa’s newest lady trainer, the Vaal–based Ashley Fortune, saved her best for last on Champions Day, saddling her first career winner in fairytale fashion,
The 2017 Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery winner Green Plains finally recaptured her winning game almost a year after winning the big one
Top Cape jockey Aldo Domeyer rode the first leg of a feature double as he and trainer Robbie Sage delivered a knockout blow in the Champions Day Pick 6 opener
St John Gray opened Champions Day at Turffontein on Saturday with a bomb
Justin Snaith’s Cape Summer Season dual Gr1 winner Snowdance found one too good for her on an action-packed Friday evening at Greyville
Milnerton trainer Harold Crawford proudly carried his giantkiller label at Greyville on Friday evening courtesy of his one-horse raiding party Perovskia
South Africa’s premier national championships of the turf only officially start this Friday at Greyville, but the KZN trainers showed their mettle in the Scottsville curtain-raiser day by lifting three of the four features on offer
Dennis Bosch flyer Cue The Music maintained his unbeaten record from two starts and signalled his Gr1 Tsogo Sun Gold Medallion intentions
The Mark Dixon trained Inverroche made it a sparkling weekend Gr3 double for Mauritzfontein stallion Ideal World
Phillipi trainer Brett Crawford has made a scintillating start to the KZN winter season and he sent another message of intent to his colleagues at Scottsville on Sunday
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?
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
