
Snow Report On Target
Fayd’herbe chooses safer rail route as What A Winter colt finishes well
Fayd’herbe chooses safer rail route as What A Winter colt finishes well
Bernard Fayd’herbe gave the Rising Sun major raceday action a miss – and the Cape heavyweight sure didn’t regret the decision to stay in the chilly Cape!
Candice Bass-Robinson’s exciting 2019 Gr1 Majorca Stakes winner Clouds Unfold will not run in the SA Champions Season
Deputising for the Cape’s recent Hong Kong export Aldo Domeyer, Bernard Fayd’herbe teamed up with Candice Bass-Robinson for a SA Champions Season opening feature double
Something of a stakes bridesmaid as a 2yo, Santa Clara has blossomed as a 3yo on the East Coast
Candice Bass-Robinson’s consistent Byword filly Miss Plumcake was a milestone 40th career winner for Milnerton Academy based apprentice Sandile ‘Sanzi’ Mbhele
A weather enforced late change of surface failed to stop the visiting tidal wave at Fairview on Friday
“In the UK and in Australia trainers travel their horses all over the place. Indeed they do this in countries round the world so why should we be confined to our own back yard?”
Candice Bass-Robinson has quickly found the raid-and-run winning recipe required for the Port Elizabeth smash ‘n grab and the Milnerton lady trainer celebrated a 100% win strike double at Fairview on Friday
Cape heavyweight rider Bernard Fayd’herbe returned from Dubai in fighting trim and rode three winners on Sun Met day
Candice Bass-Robinson celebrated her first Gr1 success with Nightingale in the 2017 Majorca Stakes and she was back in the Majorca mix at Kenilworth on Saturday
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’