Making Stallions – ‘A Mug’s Game’
Mike de Kock explained some months ago that Sir David Baird is a big, heavy horse and he was becoming problematic to train and was going unsound
18th November 2017
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Mike de Kock explained some months ago that Sir David Baird is a big, heavy horse and he was becoming problematic to train and was going unsound
The KZN raiding team of Dennis Drier and Sean Veale broke their 2017 Cape summer season ice with an impressive victory by the exciting Var flyer Sommerlied
Dual Gr1 winner Edict Of Nantes gave notice of his L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and Sun Met intentions with a fluent return to action at Kenilworth on Saturday
Dennis Drier’s Sommerlied boasts the credentials to win. Succesful in 4 of her 5 starts, she downed the Ramsden star Brutal Force at her last start – when smashing the Scottsville 1000m record
An inspired and keenly judged front-running ride by JP van der Merwe got the Royal Air Force filly Cloud Atlas home
The Silvano mare Girl On The Run booked her Sansui Summer Cup berth with a thrilling hard-fought victory in the Gr3 Victory Moon Stakes
The late withdrawal at the start of hot favourite Exquisite Touch threw a dark cloud for many punters over the Listed Gardenia Stakes
A well-related son of Dynasty went practically start to finish to win the Listed Java Handicap run over 2400m on the Vaal Classic track on Tuesday.
The Listed Golden Loom Handicap brought the curtain down on the Charity Mile day feature programme
Surely the best move Louis Goosen has made in the past few years has to be leaving the Vaal and moving to his new base at Ashburton
Yvette Bremner enjoys her Joburg giantkiller raids every few years and her Port Elizabeth-based Dippin Blu Stables pulled off another big win at Turffontein on Charity Mile day
Cape-based apprentice Brevan Plaatjies continues to grow in confidence since his move to the Mother City and edged another winner closer to national log-leader Trent Mayhew
After a record-shattering 2023/24 season, reigning SA Champion jockey Richard Fourie continues to rewrite the history books and broke the East Cape season winner record at Fairview on Friday
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?
