On a testing day for the Mike de Kock team, their progressive miler Soqrat was far too good for his ten rivals when winning the R1,25 million HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes
Despite a 27 hour road trip to the Cape and a week off work, Mike de Kock’s Australian import Soqrat showed his class
Mike de Kock matched the legend Terrance Millard’s record of 117 Gr1 victories when the Australian-bred Soqrat benefitted from a supremely confident ride by Randall Simons
In this business, none of us should overestimate our powers of prediction and our best tools are experience and context, couched in all the humility we can muster
Just when he thought the system had failed him, jockey Jason Gates received a notification from the National Horseracing Authority this week
Horses from 13 countries, including 35 individual Group or Grade I winners, are set to contest the 29th Dubai World Cup meeting
A humdinger closer with a head separating the Candice Bass-Robinson duo of Stu’s Girl and the favourite Johnny Drama at the line!
