Sun Sets On Dippin’ Blu
Hedley McGrath joined Phumelela GM Luciano Passerini on a final walkabout of the immaculate and ghostly silent Dippin’ Blue barns at Fairview earlier today
22nd September 2020
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Hedley McGrath joined Phumelela GM Luciano Passerini on a final walkabout of the immaculate and ghostly silent Dippin’ Blue barns at Fairview earlier today
It’s another very sad turn in the road to nowhere when Thursday 17 September is simply fobbed off as a ‘private labour dispute’.
Clocking The Gallop host Hedley McGrath and Mike De Haast are two of the driving forces behind the now defunct Yvette Bremner stable
There are currently many false stories being spread, and I am not sure what the purpose of this cover up is
The simmering discontent and strike action by sectors of the Fairview Grooms has elicited the attention of Phumelela and the Department of Labour
‘This is an extremely disheartening and disappointing state of affairs. We are being held to a ransom of violence and initimidation in a country with the greatest constitution on earth’ – top owner
Braam van Huyssteen talks us through his first Gr1, BMT and the privilege of owning L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate hattrick winner, Legal Eagle
Ashaawes continues to produce the winners as Scented Ash registers her maiden black type at Fairview
With the weather playing havoc at Fairview, the jockeys soldiered on and poor light stopped play with two races to run. It is a pleasure to give credit where it is due and it was a brave and commendable display in testing conditions with even the starting stalls and rails falling victim to raging wind.
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
