With power increasingly concentrated in a few bigger stables that have contracted, go-to riders, it leaves scant pickings for those who depend on chances from smaller trainers
The Glen Puller Racing team has confirmed that Illuminator, South Africa’s first Million Dollar horse, has died due to complications from colic
Shortly after his Million Dollar triumph, the son of Trippi suffered an injury which put paid to the remainder of his 3yo season
Thanks to a few good racing men of the ilk of Adrian Todd, Graeme Hawkins, Robert Bloomberg and Tony Rivalland, the CTS Million Dollar winning rider will be getting what is justly due to him and horseracing lands up the real winner
Mumblings about the perceived unfairness pertaining to apprentice Heavelon van der Hoven having to pay a large proportion of his CTS Million Dollar prize money back to the Academy
if anyone thinks that racing is rigged, there can be no more emphatic proof that it cannot be the case than Saturday’s result. If ever there was a day – certainly on the South African calendar at any rate – specifically designed to be about the In its magical way, racing prevailed and delivered a fairy tale – the little owners, from the little yard with the little horse and the little jockey won. It’s the sort of story that sells books and movie tickets and, more importantly, the sort of story that sells dreams.
Heavelon van der Hoven earned almost R630 000 for winning Saturday’s CTS Million Dollar on Illuminator but it will be the end of the year before the 23-year-old from Namibia can get his hands on it – and even then he won’t get it all
