
Mardi Gras – A Popular Winner!
The Nassif and Zackey family’s favourite grey flyer Mardi Gras bounced back from a 27 week break
The Nassif and Zackey family’s favourite grey flyer Mardi Gras bounced back from a 27 week break
There was little to stop the Sean Tarry-Lyle Hewitson express at Turffontein on Saturday
KZN trainer Wendy Whitehead steps into the Turffontein bull-ring today to contest the R450 000 Gr2 Merchants
On a day of mixed fortunes for his yard, trainer Johan Janse van Vuuren picked up his maiden Gr2 Merchants success
Joey Soma and Anton Marcus enjoyed an emotional winning reunion in the recent Golden Loom Handicap
The Trippi gelding Trip To Heaven has matured into a top-class sprinter at the age of 5 and scored his second win in the Gr2 Merchants
Joey Ramsden’s fiercely competitive streak and his willingness to brave the trading of blows in the big league paid handsome dividends at Turffontein on Saturday when the superb chestnut hulk of Brutal Force danced across the Turffontein 1160m to score a sensational R450 000 Gr2 Merchants victory.
With over R5 million up for grabs in the Turffontein Pick 6, it is a daunting thought that we are either in or out in less than a minute in the first leg.
Jackodore came out flying fresh and made short work of the boys in the R300 000 Gr2 Merchants
Mixed reputations take each other on in the Gr2 Merchants on Saturday. Zaki looks to have De Kock running for cover this time round
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’