Trainer Dean Kannemeyer has a competitive string of seven for Vodacom Durban July raceday on Saturday at Greyville, including Hot Ticket and Power King who run in the big one
Dean Kannemeyer trained past Gold Cup winners, Colonial Girl (2000) and In Writing (2012) and he thus has a good feel of what it takes to win South Africa’s premier marathon
Dean Kannemeyer’s Silvano gelding Balance Sheet fits into the ‘patience pays’ maxim and runs in today’s topliner at Greyville
Trainer Dean Kannemeyer maintained his purple patch of winning form when the Khaya Stables owned Dynasty gelding Solid Speed beat a quality field of stayers to score an impressive victory in the R120 000 Highland Night Cup
The scintillating form shown by Dean Kannemeyer’s string since moving into Summerveld for their maiden Champions Season onslaught continued at Scottsville on Sunday when the Kahal gelding Solar Star scored his first feature victory
Retired to stand at Gary Player Stud Farm in Colesberg in 2011, after an injury shortened career that included victory for Kannemeyer and his European-based owners in two classics, he sired his first winner when Shap Shap shed his maiden in good style at Greyville on Friday evening
The champion trainer had the best figures of anybody at Greyville last season. While his July win assured him of being the course’s top trainer he had a strike rate of 26%, a figure bettered by none of the local trainers and only by Dean Kannemeyer (40%) among the visitors
The overall consensus is that the new Summerveld Training Centre is a real winner – even if the protectionist policies adopted by Gold Circle are still archaic and effectively promoting mediocrity and putting the visitors under pressure
A legend celebrates his 58th birthday on the eve of yet another bid to win the Met. The ice-cool Karl Neisius says he has no immediate retirement plans – scoffing at danger and suggesting that one could fall off a horse just as easy as falling down stairs
Trainer Dean Kannemeyer has the best recent record, having won this race four times in the past thirteen years, and he will be hopeful of a big showing from his luckless Cape Winter Triple Crown pretender, Power King
The cat has been thrown amongst the pigeons with the withdrawal of the Ramsden star Act Of War and the race has been thrown wide open
An investigation into betting patterns, both locally and internationally, has been launched by the National Horseracing Authority
The highly anticipated first race on the revamped Hollywoodbets Greyville polytrack on Wednesday was well received by stakeholders, but was not without its drama
Cape lightweight Morne Winnaar has come a long way since being plucked from near ignominy by former Cape champion trainer Joey Ramsden over twenty years ago
