True Blue Susanna Snaith!
The first 3yo filly to win the Cape flagship in over a century for top owners and breeders Drakenstein Stud
29th January 2018
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The first 3yo filly to win the Cape flagship in over a century for top owners and breeders Drakenstein Stud
There are just weeks to go to the Cape’s flagship, the R5 million Gr1 Sun Met
Last Winter, the gamble of this season’s Sun Met so far, still has a lot to find according to the handicappers
Reports that dual Gr1 winner Edict Of Nantes has passed all veterinary and statutory requirements and will be exported to join the powerful Tony Millard yard in Hong Kong
The Public Servants Association (PSA) has called for a boycott of the Sun Met
South Africa’s leading bookmakers Hollywood led the field and opened the ante-post market for the 2018 Sun Met within hours of the first entries being published last Wednesday
More and more trainers have been working horses on their own so that they do not over-exert themselves
Olympic sprinting legend Usain Bolt will be hosting Africa’s Richest Race Day, the Sun Met, celebrated with GH Mumm Champagne
The second running of the R5 million Gr1 Sun Met will be held on Saturday 27 January under weight-for-age conditions
Phillipi trainer Brett Crawford saddled his third winner in the Cape’s flagship race when the Australian-bred Whisky Baron continued his meteoric rise through the ranks with a superb win
It’s probably in the entrepreneurial nature of the punter to try and find the lurker and something to beat the favourite. But this may well be one battle left to the obvious
The highly anticipated first race on the revamped Hollywoodbets Greyville polytrack on Wednesday was well received by stakeholders, but was not without its drama
Cape lightweight Morne Winnaar has come a long way since being plucked from near ignominy by former Cape champion trainer Joey Ramsden over twenty years ago
The Rafeef purple patch continued in the 2025 Champions Season opener at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday with another crackerjack performer in the shape of Mon Petit Cherie who won the World Sports Betting Gr2 Fillies Guineas
A Transkei-born horseman who started as a Groom, the groundbreaking Lunga learnt the ropes from top men like Mitch Wiese, Glen Kotzen and Kumaran Naidoo
