Chevauchee’s On Fire
The Ridgemont Stud owned daughter of High Chaparral made short work of her field to register her second stakes victory
26th June 2016
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The Ridgemont Stud owned daughter of High Chaparral made short work of her field to register her second stakes victory
Cape racing only has two midweek meetings programmed in the month of June. Kenilworth hosts the first of those today where a decent nine race programme presents a few tricky posers for punters looking for one of those mouthwatering winter Pick 6 dividends of bygone days
The daughter of Dynasty produced a scintillating turn of foot to win the Gr2 Tibouchina Stakes and looks to have a Gr1 in her at any time – with the Garden Province on July day as her next target.
The promising Australian-bred Chevauchee found the right race to score her first stakes success when holding off her flying stablemate Beach Goddess to score an encouraging victory
A dismal effort by the favourite Night Trip opened the door for the well-travelled Big Cat to grind his way to a shock victory with a sustained effort down the inside rail
Brett Crawford’s game speedster Gulf Storm came of age in style at Kenilworth on Saturday, when sneaking home in a thrilling finish to the R1 million Gr1 Cape Flying Championship to give regular pilot Corne Orffer his first Gr1 win
Some Cape Town trainers are concerned that the proposals they made have not been accepted, in particular for more gallops to enable them to get horses ready
Captain America produced the heroics for a superbly clinical victory at Kenilworth on Saturday, when disposing of SA Horse Of The Year and his former stable Futura in an exciting finish to the R400 000 Gr2 Green Point Stakes
Trainers Brett Crawford and Eric Sands are to have a conference call with Phumelela racing executive Clyde Basel this week
I attend track work on Tuesday and Wednesdays. By Tuesday the nominations have come out so I have an idea of which horses to look out for and record the vision as well as hand time the final workouts on the various tracks
The rampant ‘charity champion’ Zubbadubbadoo goes for his fifth straight victory when contesting an MR 95 Handicap over the 1200m straight.
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
