4th January 2021
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Nico Kritsiotis chats to NHA Racing Control Executive Arnold Hyde and Gold Circle’s Graeme Hawkins on the Clocking The Gallop show
Stakeholders from punters to owners and trainers were amongst the losers at Fairview on Friday
There are to be further experimental no-whip races following last Saturday’s well-received trial at Turffontein
The current system of loading by ascending draw was implemented in 2013, starting with that season’s juvenile crop
The National Horseracing Authority has undertaken to remedy any ambiguity which may have arisen, after a filly was reported to have gone down short to post, with no inspection or other action being taken at the start
Mr Rodrigues and his Board formed the opinion that when all the gates were fully open all the runners were still in the stalls and that Rustar Dhow had not been impeded by her gate opening fractionally slow
The Scottsville Wednesday meeting was a generally unhappy one for many punters with a Mullins Bay first-timer blowing the whole world out in the jackpot opener – and a backed horse unseating his jockey, before being passed fit to run – and then arriving a dirty fourth
The National Horseracing Authority recently appointed a Gr1 ‘stayer’ to the position of Racing Control Executive
There was a unique South African connection in the background as the Ralph Beckett-trained Bluestocking charged to victory under Rossa Ryan to win the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday
