It was an emotional moment for trainer Charles Laird as Anton Marcus brought the three year old Delago Deluxe through for a great win in the Gr1 Golden Horse Casino Sprint at Scottsville on Saturday.
Trainer Mike De Kock appears to have a bottomless pit of promising youngsters. Vettel won the Highland Night Cup at Clairwood on Mother’s Day and gave notice that he could develop into a useful sort in time.
A contentious start and five lame horses. Anton Marcus will bank the two winners’ cheques and forget a windy Sunday afternoon at Clairwood
Pietermaritzburg may well feel like a million miles from Melbourne Down Under. But two top sprinters retained their respective unbeaten records in a great weekend
It took eight races and a starting stall incident to baulk the winning streak of favourites at Scottsville on 8 January. Not bad going for
High jinks at the start of the Clairwood third race marred an otherwise pleasant afternoon’s racing on 20 December. It is not the starter’s job
Tellytrack has really just gone downhill since Nico Kritsiotis stepped down from a management role some time ago. Friday evening’s studio production was one of their worst ever and they just never seemed to get any better. Besides making Jimmy Lithgow look like a mug, they seem to believe that their viewers will accept the sub-standard nonsense forever.
The Clairwood midweek meeting on 18 October will be a memorable milestone for Apprentice Girish Goomamy. The 18yo in his second year at the SA Jockey Academy booted home his first winner when riding a sensible race in the second event on Raging River for Charles Laird.
It’s “Gallops” week for the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale, and so the performance of Bloodstock markets around the world was always going to be of topical interest to South African horsemen.
SARAH WHITELAW:The two full brothers, Try My Best and El Gran Senor, were both unbeaten champions at two.
Jockey Robbie Fradd and trainer Sean Tarry are developing into a formidable combination on the East Coast and they enjoyed an impressive double at Clairwood on 30 August.
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
