What Marketing?
LANCE BENSON: Derek Brugmann’s swipe at the lack of promotional and marketing effort of what was a high-class Kenilworth race-meeting on Sunday will hopefully have the effect of girding the lazy loins into action.
LANCE BENSON: Derek Brugmann’s swipe at the lack of promotional and marketing effort of what was a high-class Kenilworth race-meeting on Sunday will hopefully have the effect of girding the lazy loins into action.
Trainer Dean Kannemeyer has produced a few aces from up his Classic sleeve in the past two months and sent out another two smart three year old winners on Saturday 10 September. Brett Crawford shared the limelight with a double of his own and he has a very smart filly on his hands in the beautifully bred Thunder Dance.
Youthful energy versus age and experience! Young Cape rider Grant Van Niekerk dished out a free lesson in committed race riding to a bewildered veteran
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’