
Dougie’s Frankel Can Repeat
Last Kingdom got off the mark at his 21st start and Hong Kong’s newest trainer Douglas Whyte remains upbeat about his Frankel entire’s ability to repeat the feat in today’s Tai Shue Wan Handicap
Last Kingdom got off the mark at his 21st start and Hong Kong’s newest trainer Douglas Whyte remains upbeat about his Frankel entire’s ability to repeat the feat in today’s Tai Shue Wan Handicap
The 48 year old Joburg born Dougie Whyte, the ‘Durban Demon’ to many, is just the second person given the opportunity to transfer straight from the saddle to the training yard
The race carries a purse of $HK20-million and South African-born Douglas Whyte, multiple Hong Kong champion jockey, has been confirmed for the ride
Unfortunately, for those in the lower half of the jockeys’ championship, complaining that Joao Moreira, Zac Purton and Douglas Whyte are just too good probably won’t get a run
I am riding for the in-form stable; Chris Waller is flying and it’s a privilege to be riding for him
The Hong Kong racing season opens on Sunday, 14 September 2014 with a 10 race card, featuring the HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup over 1200m.
When I go to the gate and look around me, I see the best jockeys in the world. Doug Whyte, Joao Moreira, Zac Purton – these are top jockeys, they’re superheroes.
Parisian Affair, in foal to Foveros, fetches top price of R400.000 at the Highdown dispersal sale. The buyer is Norman Tilley. Sixty six lots at the sale average R41.000.
Cynics would say “I could have told you that”, when the odds-on favourite gets run over in the bookmaker sponsored Pip James Stakes (WFA).
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’