
De Kock Gets Sun Rising In Style
Mike de Kock got punters off to a flying start on the Rising Sun Gold Challenge raceday
Mike de Kock got punters off to a flying start on the Rising Sun Gold Challenge raceday
The richly endowed races attached to Ready To Run sales invariably attract 2yos sold at previous sales, only entered to qualify for the race
With one of the world’s truly great racing festivals, the Breeders Cup meeting, taking place at Keeneland this Friday and Saturday, a number of stallions look set to enjoy potential big pay days.
Newly crowned Northern Cape champion jockey Muzi Yeni started the new season in enthusiastic style and rode two early winners before again taking the fight to his opposition as he let King’s Joy stride out front ahead of Lunar Emblem with Taqdeer five lengths adrift
SARAH WHITELAW: a weekly take on breeding lines successes around the world
Preakness winner & Breeder’s Cup runner-up Bernardini got Gr1 winners in Europe & USA from his first crop in 2010. Now Horse of the Year Zenyatta has been booked to him for 2011. What’s the bet her owners won’t have to cough up the $75k service fee?
South African horseracing falls under the Asian Racing Federation and the Graded status of races is decided by the Asian Pattern Committee (APC)
Explained – the circumstances behind the decision by the connections of the dual Grade 1- winning sophomore One Stripe to ‘bypass’ the R1,5 million SplashOut Gr1 Cape Derby on 22 February in favour of a likely final run on South African soil in the non-black type Big Cap
With the Aga Khan’s breeding and racing programme very much geared towards the classics, it can be argued that South Africa, where speed, rather than stamina is the hallmark of its racing programme, has failed to capitalise on the excellence of especially its female families
Rob Haswell tells that he has had horses trained by Nathan Kotzen for more than twenty years and pulls us up for our Umthombothi Stakes ‘flop’