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‘It’s been a rough week for South African horseracing. This is one for the small man in the game…’
16th December 2017
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‘It’s been a rough week for South African horseracing. This is one for the small man in the game…’
Top PE trainer Tara Laing made it three winners from four runnings of the Listed Memorial Mile at Fairview on Friday
A shrewd move to fit the blinkers and a drop in distance made the difference for Joey Ramsden’s classy Gr1 winner Just Sensual
The Varsfontein Stud-bred Gimmethegreenlight colt Surcharge was the talking horse at Saturday’s day-night Turffontein meeting
Dual SA Horse Of The Year Legal Eagle set himself up for a possible record-equalling third successive L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate victory
Justin Snaith saddled his fifth Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas winner in the past decade when the Captain Al filly Snowdance stamped herself a leader of her generation
Jay Peg’s hardknocking 7yo son Silicone Valley scored a long overdue first feature success
The Tara Laing yard have hit a sweet vein of form again and the Mayfair Speculators trainer enjoyed a great afternoon at Fairview on Friday
Fortissima rounded off Sunday’s Summer Cup feature programme at Turffontein when she registered her second consecutive success in the Listed Racing Association Handicap
The courageous chestnut mare Nother Russia rounded off a great Summer Cup day for her deceased sire Tiger Ridge
Trainer Alistair Gordon broke a personal drought and enjoyed the distinction of saddling the first KZN horse to win the Gr2 Dingaans in thirty years
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
