
Another Woodhill Winnaar!
The magic repeated itself for three days but never got monotonous as Glen Kotzen and Morne Winnaar rode the wave
The magic repeated itself for three days but never got monotonous as Glen Kotzen and Morne Winnaar rode the wave
Feature victories in four racing centres over eight days must be something of a unique record
Milnerton trainer Harold Crawford proudly carried his giantkiller label at Greyville on Friday evening courtesy of his one-horse raiding party Perovskia
Veteran trainer Harold Crawford and jockey Lucian Africa showed that, given the right horse, racing can be a great leveller on the right afternoon
The recent Gr3 Pretty Polly Stakes winner Green Plains showed she is a filly with a bright future
SA champion trainer – jockey combination Sean Tarry and S’manga Khumalo made a cracking start to Classic Day at Turffontein on Saturday
Grant Paddock took the training honours at Fairview on Friday with a nice winning double ridden by Luyola Mxothwa
Golfing great Gary Player’s the Gary Player Stud Farm (Pty) Ltd has an exceptional draft on offer at the National Two Year Old Sale which starts on Thursday
A terrific tactical ride by the Avontuur-sponsored Anthony Delpech gave the Mike De Kock KZN team a deserved polytrack feature success at a festive Pinkdrive Greyville night meeting on Friday
SA title chasing jockey Gavin Lerena has grown a pair of wings in the last few months and refused to let flight complications get in his way of riding a double at Scottsville 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’