Gimmethegreenlight is rated right at the head of the three-year-old tree and even a wide draw may not stop him from becoming the second successive Cape Town-trained winner of the SA Classic on Saturday.
Gimmethegreenlight received yet another substantial boost for his future stud career, when his half-sister won the G1 Coolmore Classic in Australia.
A real crowd puller. The looks. The action. The ability. The owner. The trainer.Even the name. Gimmethegreenlight really has it all. Stabled at Randjesfontein with
Reigning horse-of-the-year Igugu will be a warm favourite to take Cape Town by storm when she turns out for the J&B Met on Saturday
Variety Club is well in at the weights in the Cape Derby, but the dark horse of the race is Jackson.
Three-year-olds are a rare sight in the l’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, but that could be set to change in seasons to come that age group dominated the finish to Saturday’s prestigious WFA contest
ROBYN LOUW: My task for this week was to do a retrospective on 2011. Listing things chronologically you realize just how much you’ve forgotten.
Depardieu made best use of a very considerable pull at the weights to gun down a couple of very talented fellow three-year-olds and record his second Graded race success in the Cape Classic over 1400m at Kenilworth (winter course) on Saturday.
Three of the four of the highest MR-rated runners in the Champion Stakes are Australian imports, and only two of the top-eight are locally bred. Chances are that, as in the Gr1 Golden Horseshoe on July day, the spoils will fall their way.
The 2011 Vodacom Durban July turned into a celebration for Mike De kock and Anthony Delpech for the second year running. Their star filly Igugu silenced her detractors and left a trail of broken dreams and dented egos in her wake…
Former jockeys seldom make it to the big time in the training ranks, but Summerveld-based Gavin Van Zyl bucked that trend when he followed up his first Gr1 win as a trainer recently in the SA Derby with Seal, when he sent out The Apache to win the R1 million Gr1 Daily News 2000
Charl Pretorius writes in his Off The Record column on the 4Racing website that owners, trainers and racing fans are gravely concerned about the state of our industry
There has been a precipitous decline of betting on the Totalisator which gives cause for concern for the horseracing industry
