
Fort Wood Proudly Wears The Crown
This is not the first time that Fort Wood has had a major impact on either the South African Triple Crown or Triple Tiara
This is not the first time that Fort Wood has had a major impact on either the South African Triple Crown or Triple Tiara
Feature victories in four racing centres over eight days must be something of a unique record
While the 2018 Gr1 Summer Cup was a feather in the cap of deceased Triple Crown winner Horse Chestnut, the R2 000 000 Turffontein feature race also highlighted the ongoing influence of former champion sire Fort Wood
When Tap O’ Noth landed Saturday’s Gr1 Cape Guineas, he ensured his late sire Captain Al joined an elite group of stallions
Fortissima rounded off Sunday’s Summer Cup feature programme at Turffontein when she registered her second consecutive success in the Listed Racing Association Handicap
There can be no doubt that the late Horse Chestnut was one of the greatest thoroughbreds ever produced in South Africa
The fairer sex held centre stage at the TBA Sales Complex in Germiston with a beautifully bred Captain Al filly topping the session charts at R1,8 million
Backed into 6-1 and with a R2 870 277 Pick 6 dividend riding on her back, there was a fair amount of pressure on jockey S’manga Khumalo
None were more in the limelight than Bush Hill Stud’s beautifully bred young horse, Flying The Flag
While a small handful of sires dominated the South African General Sires List, the broodmare sires list features a number of outstanding sires, who either stand or stood at stud in South Africa
Those that did their homework may have found a gem in the Flamingo Park dust on Saturday…
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’