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.
We could have seen something quite special at Kenilworth on Saturday when the Ideal World gelding Rainbow Bridge became the first horse in history to win the classic at only his second start
R20 000 buy Too Phat To Fly can run on her day and she stormed home to register her first stakes triumph to take her earnings close on R300 000
Vodacom Durban July entries filled the top five places in the Listed The Sledgehammer
Cape combination Brett Crawford and Corne Orffer continue to make waves ahead of the SA Champions Season launch on 4 May
St John Gray’s Bankable mare Parisienne Chic has been a flagbearer for her late sire since becoming his first winner
Mike de Kock underscored his sparkling record in the R1 million HSH Princess Charlene Gr1 Empress Club Stakes as his chestnut champion Nother Russia registered a terrific double
A phone call from Sally Bruss of Lammerskraal after the 2016 Cape Ready To Run Sale at Durbanviille saw leading owner Hedley McGrath pick up one of the bargain buys in his long association with the game
It is never ideal having to reschedule a key prep race entailing a surface and venue switch from the Scottsville turf to the Greyville all-weather
Punting takes big you-know-whats on the best of days. It’s when they are required to be of the crystal variety that most of us die-hards are found wanting
Former KZN galloper Breakfast Club has adapted quickly to his new Port Elizabeth home base and broke the ice in style
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
