
Uncle Den Is Tempting Fate
Summerveld trainer Dennis Drier has the pedigree of a champion
Summerveld trainer Dennis Drier has the pedigree of a champion
A terrific Avontuur-bred Keagan de Melo-ridden double opened the stand-alone Kenilworth programme on a sun-drenched typically Cape February summer day
Superstar Frankel took his global stakes footprint reach to seven countries when he produced his first South African stakes winner
Despite looking to have a bit to do at the weights, Dennis Drier’s 6yo Wealthy charged home from miles off the gallop at any price
An alarming drift before the off signalled trouble for backers of the odds-on SA Horse Of The Year Oh Susanna and the champion daughter of Street Cry came up for air late
Smart first stakes success for daughter of Count Dubois
It almost passed unnoticed but Dennis Drier clinched the 2000th winner of his career when the three-year-old gelding Hard Core passed the post first on debut in the first race at Greyville on Sunday
After being crowned KZN Trainer Of The Year on Friday evening, Summerveld veteran Dennis Drier found his team back on track with a welcome treble at Greyville on Sunday
Average handicappers get their chance to compete for bigger stakes
This could be the very talented filly’s swansong as she stands out as a valuable broodmare prospect, with a host of top-class suitors in waiting
South Africa’s premier national championships of the turf only officially start this Friday at Greyville, but the KZN trainers showed their mettle in the Scottsville curtain-raiser day by lifting three of the four features on offer
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’