Profile – Maxime Guyon
With South Africa televising French racing on a frequent basis, many of our country’s racegoers are familiar with the name MAXIME GUYON.
23rd January 2013
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With South Africa televising French racing on a frequent basis, many of our country’s racegoers are familiar with the name MAXIME GUYON.
It gets better every year. The riders at the gallops. The preparation of the young horses for their first public gallops. The quality of the catalogue. The prize money for the Ready To Run Cup and the judges comments.
This race produced the 2010 Gr1 Summer Cup winner when Flirtation won it for Mike De Kock. Is there a possibility of history repeating itself?
Tuesday’s Vaal card boasts names like Robbie Fradd, Piere Strydom, Anton Marcus, Marthinus Mienie and Sherman Brown, and any one of them would walk blindfolded into most international jockey sides
We’ve all heard the extravagant claim that the Emperors Palace Ready To Run sale, pound-for-pound, is the best sale of racehorses in the world. Its
When it comes to horseracing and sport, on South African screens, there can be very few sport lovers who don’t know the face and name Neil Andrews
Only a handful of workriders have made a successful transition from workrider to jockey. MENNO MALHERBE is one of them, but he had to wait until he was 26 years old before he could start his apprenticeship.
After 21 years of working for a company with long hours and lots of travelling, ROB SCOTT, decided it’s now time to do something less stressful with more time to devote to his passion which is horse racing.
Anton’s ambition is on breeding many more ‘VARIETY CLUB’S’. South Africa is blessed to have many wonderful breeders, of which Anton rates amongst the best.
The highest purse on offer for runners on turf in midweek is that put aside for the MR90 Handicap at the Vaal on Tuesday. A spread of just 5,5kg covers the vast majority of the runners, so a very competitive contest can be expected….
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
