Frankie Banks A Cape Derby Win
Once rated the world’s best jockey, multiple British Champion Frankie Dettori always does things in style
28th January 2017
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Once rated the world’s best jockey, multiple British Champion Frankie Dettori always does things in style
Bernard Fayd’herbe is back in town for this weekend’s Grand Parade Cape Guineas
Trainer Brett Crawford added some respectability to a competitive and tough day at the office at Kenilworth on Saturday
The question mark hanging over Brett Crawford’s exciting unbeaten Foxwedge filly Quick Brown Fox will only be answered after today’s Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas
Brett Crawford celebrated a memorable association of days gone by with the champion racemare Laisserfaire, when he saddled the top two home in the Kenilworth feature named in her honour
He was a pricy yearling and there will be hopes that the son of Silvano will now go on and realise his potential
The high-class Gr1 winner Captain America opened his Cape summer campaign in style at Durbanville on Sunday
Made the news last year as the joint fifth most expensive yearling sold in South Africa in 2015
The super consistent Kildonan filly Beach Goddess ended the Cape season on a high for her title chasing breeders Klawervlei Stud
The Summerhill bred gelding was conditioned through a multiple Gr1 winning 2yo and 3yo career by top Gauteng trainer Mike Azzie
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
