Bonji Hits The Highway!
He leaves Milnerton on Wednesday morning with Dean Kannemeyer charge Cosmic Highway for a tilt at the R1,5 million Wilgerbosdrift Gr1 HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes
27th February 2024
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He leaves Milnerton on Wednesday morning with Dean Kannemeyer charge Cosmic Highway for a tilt at the R1,5 million Wilgerbosdrift Gr1 HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes
There isn’t a jockey brimming with more adrenaline than Britain’s high-riding 21 year old Saffie Osborne, who enjoyed a career defining international 24 hours last Friday into Saturday
On 25 June 2022 – a lifechanging one, in hindsight – the brave idealist set off for Fresnaye
South Africa’s all-time leading international ambassador and eight-times national champion conditioner boasts the distinction of saddling a SA record 135 Gr1 winners and counting
After an impressive last to first victory at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth in Saturday’s traditional Derby trial, Dean Kannemeyer has confirmed that Green With Envy is on track for a tilt at the SplashOut Gr1 Cape Derby
On Saturday 6 January, his farrier team, Miller Forge and Horseshoeing, provided his birthday present by shoeing all nine winners at the prestigious L’Ormarins King’s Plate meeting
The Zimbabwe-born jock becomes the third UK-based rider after Frankie Dettori and Ryan Moore in recent years to add an international flavour to Met day
This week we bumped into something of a forgotten man of the racehorse training ranks
She has ridden 211 winners, secured two SA champion apprentice titles, and has a Gr2 Gauteng Guineas on Eye Of The Prophet under the belt – not bad for a rosy cheeked horse-crazy teenager who had to practically kick down doors to get a chance to realise her dream of becoming a jockey!
The name of Kayleigh Oakes’ mount in Saturday’s Okapi Ladies International at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth is not lost on her
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
