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The first major piece of silverware for the new season in South African football will be up for grabs this weekend as the Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates lock horns in the Carling Black Label Cup.
Borussia Dortmund will play host to Bayern Munich with the 2013/14 season’s first piece of silverware up for grabs: the German Super Cup
The countdown to a grand finale of the 2013 Charity Turf Challenge has begun!
Hamburg were inconsistent last season as they battled to maintain winning form, finishing 7th on the log.
The Telkom Cup is a German football competition which has been held since 2009.
On Saturday, 13 July the running of the Gr1 Mercury Sprint took place at Clairwood Racecourse.
The U20 World Cup final is set for Saturday with France and Uruguay to do battle for the right to be honoured world champions
The 2013 COSAFA Cup kicked off in Zambia last weekend with the smaller nations battling it out to book a place in the quarter-finals.
Whilst this weekend was a quiet one for the competition the KZN Breeders Million Mile took place at Clairwood Racecourse on Sunday, 30 June
The U20 World Cup reaches the quarter-finals with Uruguay taking on the tournament favourites Spain.
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
