Warren Kennedy
Warren Kennedy chats to us about being the quintessential stable jockey and THAT Derby ride on Rocketball
26th May 2016
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Warren Kennedy chats to us about being the quintessential stable jockey and THAT Derby ride on Rocketball
S’manga Khumalo talks about life, chasing his second championship and achieving a milestone 200 wins for the season
Adriaan van Vuuren talks us through the roller-coaster of Champions Day and his Triple Crown winner with the huge heart
Ormond Ferraris holds a record of ten SA Oaks and eight SA Derbies, he has twice been SA champion trainer, he won the 1994 Summer Cup with Sizzling Sun, ran 2nd in one of the most controversial Durban Julys with Distinctly in 1975 and trained 2013 Triple Tiara winner, Cherry On The Top. We chat to the man behind the formidable reputation.
The breeding community seem to like the foals and when they see how good his matings look on paper, they can’t believe it. I had a call at 7 o’clock one evening from someone who had been on a stud farm inspection and picked out a couple of yearlings in the paddock. When they heard they were Marchfields, they rang me up and booked covers for the next morning!
Candice Robinson has carried her fair share of the mantle at Mike Bass Racing for the last decade and a half, but was thrust into
In an era of assembly line mentality, someone who is bringing the ‘art’ back to artisan is master farrier, Robbie Miller
They’re all different, you know? Some eat, some don’t eat. There are no books. Mind you, we all think we know how it works, but what do we really know?”
Running a commercial operation teaches you very quickly not to breed with anything below standard – the market is not very forgiving. That was probably my biggest lesson, but my parents let me make the decisions and cry about my own mistakes.
Paul Lafferty talks about beating cancer, Harry’s Son and his international ambitions
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
