Chip Off The Old Block!
A granddaughter of champion racemare Ilha Da Vitoria stamped herself as a filly with a bright future when scoring a facile win in the Listed Sea Cottage Stakes
14th January 2017
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A granddaughter of champion racemare Ilha Da Vitoria stamped herself as a filly with a bright future when scoring a facile win in the Listed Sea Cottage Stakes
Ilha Bela may have run out of chances and it is difficult selecting her with any confidence for today’s Listed Syringa Handicap.
When you consider that in real terms this is a handicap, it is quite surprising that only ten will go to post
Ilha Bela stands out amongst a rather modest bunch of locals in the Listed Sun Classique Handicap to be run over 2400m
Mike De Kock and Mary Slack will be contemplating the future of Ilha Bela after the Summer Cup
The Gr2 Viictory Moon Stakes on Friday is the last chance saloon for a few Sansui Summer Cup hopefuls.
Ilha Bela wins a thriller in the R175 000 Gr3 Joburg Spring F&M Challenge
Joey Soma may hold the trumpcard in Saturday’s Gr3 Joburg Spring F&M Challenge
Mike de Kock’s grey filly Ilha Bela takes on Dennis Drier’s smart Bambina Stripes in a clash between the two top stables
Ilha Bela, banked her biggest career cheque when winning the Gr2 SA Oaks
Stamina doubts lie at the heart of unravelling the Gr2 SA Oaks puzzle. Only 4 of the thirteen 3yo fillies have tried the 2450m trip previously and then only with mixed success.
A man we are privileged to have known as a loyal friend of this great game and of the Sporting Post, a personal mate, and one of South African horseracing’s great characters, Shaheen Shaw, a husband, loving Dad and Grandad, passed away suddenly at the age of 55
The sad reality is that no matter who did what wrong, the Peter saga has been a scar on the SA horseracing landscape for far too long and besides the old favourite of justice delayed, it has lingered lengths ahead of KZN star Royal Victory’s big win in the 2023 renewal of the Highveld showpiece
Time has flown by and it’s been thirty years since the first issue of the Sporting Post hit the shelves in October 1994
The champagne corks were popping at the magnificent Owloon Horses in Paarl earlier this week when their 2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July winning broodmare Souk delivered a handsome and beautifully conformed Fire Away colt
