Pippa Mickleburgh
With a Queen’s Plate double in the trophy cabinet and a high quality draft for the 2017 Cape Premier Yearling Sale, we chat to Avontuur GM, Pippa Mickleburgh
12th January 2017
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With a Queen’s Plate double in the trophy cabinet and a high quality draft for the 2017 Cape Premier Yearling Sale, we chat to Avontuur GM, Pippa Mickleburgh
Maine Chance Farms have sponsored the Gr1 Paddock Stakes since 2013. With a stellar line-up for Saturday’s renewal – including Maine Chance runner, Silver Mountain – we chat to Dr Andreas Jacobs
With 5 years’ experience and another Graded win under his belt, young trainer Adam Marcus has his sights set firmly on the top
With a professionalism and dedication that belie his fresh-faced 23 years, Donovan Dillon seems a jockey cut from the cloth of days gone by. We chat to Goodhope Racing’s first choice rider.
From being told he’d never ride again, to winning the Brisbane premiership and clocking a record-breaking 7 winners at the Sunshine Coast, at 55 years old Jeff Lloyd is better than ever!
Jim Antrobus is the sort of person you always want around in a crisis. Calm under pressure with a deft touch with even the most temperamental of mares, he is a vet par excellence. Highlands’ resident vet for many years, Jet Master’s personal physician and an accomplished breeder in his own right, there is only one Dr Jim.
Popular Cape conditioner Michael Robinson chats to us about going out on his own, dealing with tricky horses and saddling his first Fillies Guineas runner in his own right in Smokey Affair
Geoff Woodruff talks us through his runners for the 2016 Gr1 Summer Cup and his hopes for 4 in a row
In September 2016 Neil Bruss left to ply his trade in Saudi Arabia. With 10 race meetings under his belt so far this season, he has accomplished 7 winners and 11 places from 29 runners and earnings of over R1,5 million. We find out how he’s getting on.
We chat to Far End Farm’s Jane Thomas about nearly 2 decades in the business and her thoughts on the forthcoming Emperor’s Palace CTS Ready To Run draft
Gareth van Zyl has got his career off to a dream start, saddling two winners from his first two runners at Greyville’s Pink Drive meeting last Friday. We chat to the newest addition to our local training ranks.
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
