4th September 2019
19 Comments
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Management is reactive rather than proactive -did anybody sit down and offer an alternative to the Kimberley community by way of a business plan and an austerity budget?
Secret meetings, reduced stakes, the closure of Flamingo Park – what is going on?
‘I’d like to think that – if there is a changing of the guard – Shaheen could be persuaded to return to Tellytrack’
If ABSA stated that Mayfair was “hopelessly insolvent”, how has an insolvent company been allowed to still have racing colours, trade and incur expenses?
The inability to run South African racing to schedule surely needs to be addressed
Not even Sea Cottage could win the July as a 3yr old. So the point I’m trying to make is that a Gr1 race for older horses is not the same as a Gr1 race for 3 yr old’s
Justin Snaith had to skip the Daily News in order to give Black Arthur a better chance of winning the July
A call on the NHA to come in line with international best practice and consider eliminating the owner renewal forms altogether
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
