
Just Enough Pressure, Frankly
In or out. That was probably the thinking of Frank Robinson went throwing the son of Pierro into the Derby mix
In or out. That was probably the thinking of Frank Robinson went throwing the son of Pierro into the Derby mix
A total of 49 entries were received on Monday for the Gr3 Track and Ball Derby and the Gr3 Track and Ball Oaks
Trainer Dean Kannemeyer can do little wrong from his Summerveld base and he was on the feature mark again at Scottsville on Sunday
The Track And Ball Derby formerly run under classic conditions for three-year-olds at level weights at Clairwood, is now open to all horses at weight-for-age plus penalties and is run over 2400m on the Scottsville Inside Track today
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’