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Consider the trainers when you put your hand up at the sale this week at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale Book 2
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Consider the trainers when you put your hand up at the sale this week at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale Book 2
Dean Alexander’s defence of their stable as stated in last week’s letter has failed dismally to deal with a few rather pertinent issues.
J&B claims that their race is the oldest sponsored sports event in the country, I would differ…
Dean Alexander responds to Robert Bloomberg’s comments made on Tellytrack during the panel discussion previewing the J&B Met Raceday
While the sophisticated elegant face of horseracing was exhibited to the world via Tellytrack, the service in the Pocket Power lounge was nothing short of pathetic.
I am writing my response both to Mr Thiselton and the Sporting Post as I believe my comments would more likely be binned in the National paper due to the restrictions placed on their journalists.
Unlike many other Cape racing enthusiasts, I don’t respect the Selangor form that much as so many have historically been run at a crawl and then developed into a 300m sprint.
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
The businessman was served with an interim suspension of his Assistant Trainer licence on Friday afternoon and has spoken out about what appears to be mostly a misunderstanding based on a potential lack of communication and bureaucratic red-tape challenges