Cream Of The Crop
Gaynor Rupert’s Drakenstein Stud look set to be crowned SA Champion Owners at the end of this season
17th July 2018
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Gaynor Rupert’s Drakenstein Stud look set to be crowned SA Champion Owners at the end of this season
South Africa’s leading bookmakers Hollywood have raised the bar by becoming the first to offer a Pick 6 payout limit of R5 million
The 2018 running of Africa’s greatest will go down as something of a bizarre extended 1200m sprint
The problem with the system of handicapping is that it is a highly emotive and subjective issue and if you have three racing enthusiasts sitting around a table you will probably get four different opinions as to a horse’s merit rating
Jonsson believed he had the two best jockeys in the race, Anton Marcus and Jeff Lloyd, and felt the key to victory was that they had ridden their races exactly as discussed
The Grade 1 races include the R1 million Mercury Sprint, R1 million World Sports Betting Champion Stakes and the two most important Grade 1 races for two-year-olds over 1600m, the Premier’s Champion Stakes and the Thekweni Stakes
Grant van Niekerk says that mount had already clipped heels twice and was pulling his arms out of the sockets – he really had no alternative but to take the favourite to lead
TAB turnover of just over R130 million on Saturday was R11 million or some eight percent less than a year ago
The courier service vehicle, which was transporting the post-race equine specimens taken after every race on the day, from Greyville Racecourse, was pulled over on the N2 freeway by an unmarked vehicle
The EFF led protest at Turffontein on Saturday and the electrical fault that delayed the start of the Vodacom Durban July by fifteen minutes were testing moments for the big race organisers after a nervous few weeks
Charl Pretorius writes in his Off The Record column on the 4Racing website that owners, trainers and racing fans are gravely concerned about the state of our industry
There has been a precipitous decline of betting on the Totalisator which gives cause for concern for the horseracing industry
