On the eve of writing his final matriculation exam, 18 year old Winning Form-sponsored Apprentice Keratile Katjedi joined the sparsely populated ranks of 4kg-claimers to ride a four-timer at a racemeeting
With the support of her champion jockey husband and two beautiful children, Vikki Badenhorst is ready for a new challenge at the age of 38
It was on the well-worn school to home circuit that he was to bump into a stranger who was to change his world forever…
There are not too many young jockeys that have bounced back from a disrupted apprenticeship and an injury-enforced four year absence from the saddle
Seemingly always destined to become a Hong Kong trainer, Pierre Ng will fulfil a cherished ambition this Sunday when he saddles eight runners at Sha Tin
The Hollywoodbets Greyville night meeting of 2 September will forever be etched in the memory of Wendy Whitehead, for never in her wildest dreams did the Summerveld trainer guess that she would saddle four winners on the card!
Women’s month has come and gone, but there is no denying the fairer sex talent in the riding ranks
While he has never fully recovered from the blow of having the rug literally pulled from under his well-worn vellies, 65 year old Hollywoodbets-sponsored Fairview trainer Cliffie Miller has maintained his bearded smile and made the most of a bad situation
Durban-based Candiese Lenferna scooped the Equus still photography award for the second year running at last Wednesday evening ‘oscars’ in Johannesburg
Five-time SA champion jockey Mark Khan booted home a winner for his former SA Jockey Academy buddy Anthony Delpech
This week we had the pleasure of speaking to 22-year-old Dean Smith, son of recently-crowned Eastern Cape Champion Conditioner, Gavin Smith. Dean’s father is sponsored
The Rafeef purple patch continued in the 2025 Champions Season opener at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday with another crackerjack performer in the shape of Mon Petit Cherie who won the World Sports Betting Gr2 Fillies Guineas
A Transkei-born horseman who started as a Groom, the groundbreaking Lunga learnt the ropes from top men like Mitch Wiese, Glen Kotzen and Kumaran Naidoo
Better known as having raced iconic legend of the turf Pocket Power, the affable Marsh Shirtliff is fast making a name for himself in the breeding fraternity
On the eve of the launch of the 2025 Champions Season this coming Saturday, South African horseracing awoke to a brand new chapter in its history on the Workers’ Day public holiday
