‘I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but to get 80% of what we really wanted means the future looks bright! I must thank the breeders and owners who supported us. It was a fantastic happy sale with a good vibe’
As the rider of Brooklyn Bridge he failed to ensure that he did not cause interference
The local season survived stakes cuts, a high-profile sponsor bale out, and the inevitable dramatic sideshow moments, to emerge as a show we can’t wait to watch all over again
A tactical plan come together for a master trainer and one of the best families in the stud book
Craig Zackey kept a cool head to register a 23rd stakes winner for Mauritzfontein’s Kingmambo sire Ideal World on the Gary Alexander-trained Mount Laurel
Vardy mows down a class field – and now everything looks a lot less cut and dried!
South African horseracing has been suffering from a dearth of top jockeys as a result of international commitments and injuries
A prolific and fearless traveller with his horses to the far flung reaches of South Africa, it is something of an anomaly that there is often little respect in the betting markets for the Spies runners
Craig Zackey was fined as he rode a ding dong finish to go down narrowly in the Pick 6 opener
The introduction of the new twelve strike rule under Guideline M on Friday 10 May for the use of the crop resulted in six sanctions in the first three days.
With a limited Gauteng satellite string, Joey Ramsden is delivering the results
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’
