NHA Praised For No Crop Race
There are to be further experimental no-whip races following last Saturday’s well-received trial at Turffontein
7th November 2018
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There are to be further experimental no-whip races following last Saturday’s well-received trial at Turffontein
Unfortunately we’ve had general public just walking on the tracks at anytime. We mean no disrespect to Mr Ferraris whatsoever and apologize for any offence taken
On Friday, 10 March 2017, the Progressive Movement of Grooms staged a peaceful march to Phumelela’s Turffontein head office to hand over a memorandum
The first race meeting on the new turf track at the Vaal will be held on Thursday 19 May and trials on the new surface suggest that the track is going to be a winner
Top man says that he is under no illusions as regards the challenges that face the sport of kings in the 21st century.
John Stuart, Executive Director for International Operations and Tellytrack, has now been allocated the additional portfolio of Publishing to free up Vee Moodley to focus on leading Tote and Fixed Odds Betting for the Group
The R1 million Supreme Cup sponsored by SAP will not become defunct due to the discontinuation of the Vaal Sand, but instead will be raced on turf, although the venue is still the subject of discussions
Sand racing’s glory years in this country will be remembered as somewhere between September 2005, when the now retired Guilermo Figueroa rode the Oppenheimers’ Hilti to win the Gr2 Emerald Cup for trainer Mike De Kock and September 2015, when Africa’s richest race on sand will be run for the last time
Johannesburg’s premier horse racing event, the Summer Cup and popular household brand SANSUI of the JD Group (licence holders of the SANSUI brand in South Africa) have confimed their 7th consecutive year of sponsorship.
Phumelela have announced that Clyde Basel, executive in charge of Hospitality, Events, Marketing, Sales and Public Relations has been appointed Racing Executive with effect from 1 October 2015
The Vaal racecourse’s greatest event, formerly known as The Emerald Cup, is now the Supreme Cup presented by SAP
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
