Another Aussie Gr1 For David Payne
The David Payne-trained Montefilia emerged as a star of the future with a brilliant win in Saturday’s Gr1 Flight Stakes at Randwick.
3rd October 2020
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The David Payne-trained Montefilia emerged as a star of the future with a brilliant win in Saturday’s Gr1 Flight Stakes at Randwick.
Trainer of 107 Gr1 Winners, David Payne moved to Australia from South Africa in 2002, without any horses, wanting to make a new start
Wendy Whitehead got her new barn off to a flying start with their first winner at Scottsville on Sunday
He often passed on some of his faults, but you closed your eyes and bought them anyway, because that’s how they ran.
A former SA champion jockey saddled the winner of Australia’s oldest classic at Flemington on Saturday
He was a small man and he liked to wear hats. He was very sharp and always full of jokes and laughs. He was a great person always willing to help people and he was very good to us. Once you’d met Mr Cherry, you wouldn’t have forgotten him.
A Cape-based stallion; some big name owners and breeders; a former champion jockey turned champion trainer and a top former KZN based jockey – it all adds up to a more than sentimental interest for us in a big Gr1 raceday Down Under
I am riding for the in-form stable; Chris Waller is flying and it’s a privilege to be riding for him
Racing history is full of champion horses and colourful characters. Legends of the Turf will be filming reconstructions of some of the pivotal moments in our racing history and are appealing for racing fans to come down and join in the fun
“He’s a wonderful rider and one of the hardest working I’ve met. It’s great to have him back,” says David Payne
A man we are privileged to have known as a loyal friend of this great game and of the Sporting Post, a personal mate, and one of South African horseracing’s great characters, Shaheen Shaw, a husband, loving Dad and Grandad, passed away suddenly at the age of 55
The sad reality is that no matter who did what wrong, the Peter saga has been a scar on the SA horseracing landscape for far too long and besides the old favourite of justice delayed, it has lingered lengths ahead of KZN star Royal Victory’s big win in the 2023 renewal of the Highveld showpiece
Time has flown by and it’s been thirty years since the first issue of the Sporting Post hit the shelves in October 1994
