Smart, young, black women with megawatt smiles who are enthused about the racing industry are rare indeed, but take all that, wrap it up in a broad smile, add wide brown eyes sparkling with warmth and you have Hazel Kayiya.
A bad workman blames his tools, but have you ever noticed that good workmen always have the best tools? It may take a village to
Since starting her fledgling operation in 2003, Judy Davies has quietly been making a name for herself as a knowledgeable and warmly enthusiastic member of our breeding ranks
A crazy passionate animal lover who used to babysit baboons and chimpanzees in between riding work for a top lady trainer in her matric year,
Teresa Esplin was South Africa’s first ever female starter and is currently Kenilworth Racing’s Racing Liaison Officer. But these are not the only strings to this talented lady’s bow!
With a 2016 Cape Nursery double and a Betting World 2200 win, all from Robertson’s Normandy Stud nursery, we spend an afternoon with Veronica Foulkes
A hard-working, focussed and dedicated young man, Mathew Thackeray is nearing the end of his first season as a fully fledged jockey and is working hard to make his mark. We get to know him better.
The Sporting Post chats to Charles Ndlovu who steered Kimberley Star to victory in the 2017 EC Champion Juvenile Cup
Wife, mother, devoted daughter, top dressage rider, boss of one of the most competitive racing strings in the country and the first lady trainer to saddle a Vodacom Durban July winner – is there anything Candice Robinson can’t do?
The Sporting Post chats to Richard Fourie, who rides Horizon in this year’s Vodacom Durban July
A year into the ‘big job’, Candice Robinson has already notched her first Gr1 win and fields three runners for this year’s Vodacom Durban July
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?
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
