Our Vodacom Durban July winning trainer put the seal on a dream 2016 SA Champions Season when he saddled the high class stallion prospect Red Ray to win the Gr1 Mercury Sprint for Ingrid and Markus Jooste
Competition is being taken out of the racing with the way the champion is allowed to control his ride selection
The rags-to-riches fairytale of the season reaches a potential dizzy climax at Greyville today
South African horseracing welcomed a high-class locally bred sprinter to the stallion ranks when the superbly talented Captain Of All rounded off his illustrious track career with a glorious third Gr1 trophy
Everything points to Dennis Drier’s flyer Captain Of All making it a fairytale swansong appearance when he steps out at Greyville on Saturday in the R750 000 Gr1 Mercury Sprint
Sprinters have made their mark all over the world, and include some of the hottest stallions in the world.
The Gr1 sprint brought the curtain down on 93 years of feature racing action at one of South Africa’s prime racecourses, and but for one last meeting which will host the Asian Young Guns Challenge on Saturday 2 August, that is tragically it
Brilliant 3yo filly pulls one back for the girls in the R750 000 Gr1 Mercury Sprint
A brilliant sprinter bounced back to his best in the Gr1 Mercury Sprint at Clairwood on 14 July. Mike Bass’ What A Winter showed he has few peers over 1200m, when on song
Mike Bass’ brilliant sprinter What A Winter goes back to basics when he contests the Gr1 Mercury Sprint. If close to anything near his best, he should turn his opposition inside out, in a race he is weighted to win.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
