“Education? What’s that? I was streetwise. That’s it. A powerful and hugely successful businessman, Mr Beck always used to joke that his life was being ruled by a guy with a Standard 1 education!”
The Kenilworth meeting this Saturday honours one of South African horseracing’s great owners, breeders and benefactors of recent times.
There are few men that have left a larger impression on horseracing and life than the late Graham Beck. The Gr2 Graham Beck Memorial Sceptre Stakes will feature on a raceday at Kenilworth in January that will include the Listed Graham Beck Sun Classique Handicap and the Listed Graham Beck Jamaica Handicap
Suddenly the R1 million price tag looks so damn cheap! Trainer Dean Kannemeyer was a very happy man after his handsome Jet Master colt, Divine
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
