
A Force To Be Reckoned With!
Joey Ramsden’s Western Winter gelding Brutal Force, aka ‘Fatty’, continued his love affair with the Turffontein track on Saturday
Joey Ramsden’s Western Winter gelding Brutal Force, aka ‘Fatty’, continued his love affair with the Turffontein track on Saturday
I am not too disappointed with The Conglomerate and won’t be jumping off a bridge quite yet!
Horses are like paintings: people will only pay what they think they are worth and that was very much the case a couple of weeks ago
Joey Ramsden’s fiercely competitive streak and his willingness to brave the trading of blows in the big league paid handsome dividends at Turffontein on Saturday when the superb chestnut hulk of Brutal Force danced across the Turffontein 1160m to score a sensational R450 000 Gr2 Merchants victory.
There is just no stopping Joey Ramsden and his top owners Ingrid and Markus Jooste and the combination were to the fore in yet another Cape feature after a glorious and memorable summer
The full brother to Red Ray was bought by Markus Jooste for R1.5 million at last year’s CTS Premier Yearling Sale and was then put into the Durbanville Ready To Run Sale in order to qualify him for the R2 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes. Watch him at 12h35 today on Tellytrack (Dstv 239)
Ready To Run sales nowadays are linked to very rich races, so the trick is to qualify a horse by sending it through the ring.
There simply isn’t a better five days of Flat racing anywhere in the world! It all starts on Tuesday 17 June with three Gr1 races
It’s been confirmed – New Zealand reigning champion jockey Warren Kennedy has been booked to ride Confederate for trainer Fabian Habib on 05 July
The Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge day last Saturday produced some top-drawer racing and inspiring performances on the track
Frank Robinson and his staunch patron Sid Moodley look to have booked themselves a Hollywoodbets Durban July berth with Madison Valley