The Things We Do For Love
The bid to save the foal involved slogging 2600km around South Africa!
7th November 2019
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The bid to save the foal involved slogging 2600km around South Africa!
The next time your trainer makes excuses about not running your horses, cite the Blaze Of Fire precedent. This gutsy 6yo entire was pacing it out behind Futura in the Gr1 Champions Cup on Super Saturday and just six days later came out and did more pace work at Fairview
Racing administrators should be made to own horses and feel the pain in every way possible. This is the only way they will ever understand the frustration.
Yvette Bremner’s smart 4yo Blaze Of Fire led for most of the trip to win the Founders Trophy at Arlington last Friday.
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?
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
