Gerrit Schlechter
Cape jockey Gerrit Schlechter has been missing from our race cards since 5 September 2015. We catch up with him for a status update.
Cape jockey Gerrit Schlechter has been missing from our race cards since 5 September 2015. We catch up with him for a status update.
Nobody is getting any younger but the vast experience of top men like Karl Neisius and Gerrit Schlechter is being missed
Trifecta for Captain Al in the R150 000 Gr3 Kenilworth Fillies Nursery!
The Western Cape makes Kimberley and Arlington look like Royal Ascot or even a hint of Las Vegas on some days. The light drizzle of
His record speaks for itself, but the impact of the tragic recent early demise of multiple champion stallion Jet Master cannot be underestimated. He sired
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’