
Bremner Star Bombs Them
The final feature of the lean first month of the South African racing season hosted eight runners and looked to be competitive
The final feature of the lean first month of the South African racing season hosted eight runners and looked to be competitive
His trainer may have labelled him ‘a 16.1 hh Marie biscuit’ recently, but Gimmethegreenlight’s smart son Gimme The Stars amply makes up for his lack of physical constitution with a deadly turn of foot
It was a day of dominant performances at Fairview – 5 for Alan Greeff, 4 each for Yvette Bremner and Lyle Hewitson – with Andrew Fortune grabbing 3 and Charles Ndlovu 2
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’