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Hassen Adams Calls It A Day
A former J&B Met and L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winning owner, and a breeder, the 67 year old Hassen Adams has announced that he will be retiring from business life in January
A former J&B Met and L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winning owner, and a breeder, the 67 year old Hassen Adams has announced that he will be retiring from business life in January
“Every good horse that went through my hands was either sold or moved to other trainers…”
Hassen Adams has transferred all of his Gauteng based horses to the care of Ashley Fortune
‘Sports betting and technology have galloped past the game somehow. I don’t have the answers to make up the lost ground. The world is different. In those days racing was the only game in town – for many of us, it still is!’
Great Britain is a full brother to Cape Cross, the sire of Ouija Board, Sea The Stars and Golden Horn. Imported to South Africa in 2011 and with limited support, he’s just celebrated his first stakes winner. Ian Levitan tells us more
Kenilworth Racing director Hassen Adams announced in November that a synthetic track would be installed alongside the grass one
“Cape Town two-year-old racing is the most uncompetitive around,” says champion trainer
Lazer Star came in here undefeated off four impressive sprint wins and ahead of the official handicapper in our estimation. The manner of her victories, coupled with a calculated analysis that she would at least get the 1450m, made her a firm first choice
“With the handicapping system as it is in South Africa, I will be giving them one less gallop than they need and rather let the race bring them on.”
The result is not one that would have had many punters smiling on an afternoon that looked likely to dish up favourable results.
Gimmethegreenlight – there’s no holding back. Hassen Adams, one of the great entrepreneurs in South Africa, started with R28m – R3bn in cash now and he’s going to deploy that very efficiently
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million