
Another Gr1 For Var
Avontuur sire’s 24th individual Gr1 winner as Azzie galloper upsets in the exotics
Avontuur sire’s 24th individual Gr1 winner as Azzie galloper upsets in the exotics
The Milnerton trainer sends out feature runners in three different provinces – all progeny of the stable’s former champion, What A Winter
Multiple SA champion Piere Strydom won the R1 million Gr1 Computaform Sprint for the fifth time this century
Milnerton trainer Joey Ramsden pulled a Gr1 rabbit out of the hat at Turffontein on Champions Day
Champion Miler and dual SA Horse Of The Year Legal Eagle returns to action on Champions Day 5 May and is out to set the record straight in the R4 million Gr1 Premier’s Champions Challenge
Mike de Kock and Callan Murray celebrated a rare family Gr1 double at Turffontein on Champions Saturday when two smashing Australian-bred full brothers won their respective Gr1 contests
This looks without question to be the most open of the four Gr1’s on the Champions Day programme
Two Captain Al fillies played a prominent role in the Tarry-Khumalo Champions Day succcess story
The competitiveness of the speed ranks makes the R1 million Gr1 Computaform Sprint one of the highlights of a superb Champions Day programme
Multiple champion conditioner Mike De Kock produced the magic when the smart 3yo Australian-bred filly Alboran Sea scored her second consecutive Gr1 victory after a 13 week break
The Computaform Sprint has attracted by far and away the most nationally representative field on the Champions Day programme. With every turf racing province represented and all the major flyers present, it ranks as one of the best fields in many a long year
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’