Snaith’s Tibouchina Exacta
The class act in the field, Silvano’s Pride went all the way to win the R150 000 Gr2 Tibouchina Stakes
28th June 2020
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The class act in the field, Silvano’s Pride went all the way to win the R150 000 Gr2 Tibouchina Stakes
The Cape lightweight demonstrated his skills again when overcoming a wide draw on the Cape challenger Oh Susanna
With twelve SA Champions Season features behind us, the Cape ‘mountain goats’ – as a champion trainer once labelled them – lead the way with six victories
The Milnerton-based combination of Vaughan Marshall and MJ Byleveld struck with their major SA Champions Season score of the current term
The 2018 renewal is as good as anything we have seen in recent years and Cape combination Vaughan Marshall and MJ Byleveld will be keen to bank a big win after a quiet patch
Flamboyant Cape trainer Joey Ramsden demonstrated a mixture of relief and joy to find himself in the winner’s enclosure at Greyville on Saturday
The Cape trainers have dominated the Gr2 Tibouchina Stakes in recent years and the trophy looks likely to remain safely in the Mother City for the 2017 renewal
The daughter of Dynasty produced a scintillating turn of foot to win the Gr2 Tibouchina Stakes and looks to have a Gr1 in her at any time – with the Garden Province on July day as her next target.
After winning the Tibouchina for the last two runnings with the high quality Hammie’s Hooker the Cape veteran sends out a quality coupling and holds a strong hand
A triple Gr1 runner-up in her career so far, Hammie’s Hooker has just been one of those horses loaded with talent, but born in the wrong year
The top three finishers in last year’s R250 000 Gr2 Tibouchina Stakes clash again in the 2015 renewal at Greyville on Saturday. On recent form there is little to choose between Hammie’s Hooker, Jet Aglow and Maybe Yes
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’
