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It was a weekend for smashing records in South African horseracing and trainer Tara Laing and champion owners Ingrid and Markus Jooste got the ball rolling at Fairview on Friday
1st February 2016
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It was a weekend for smashing records in South African horseracing and trainer Tara Laing and champion owners Ingrid and Markus Jooste got the ball rolling at Fairview on Friday
Ingrid and Markus Jooste’s Mayfair Speculators added to their first day quartet when buying a further three yearlings for a gross 1 350 000gns
Champion SA owners Ingrid and Markus Jooste were active on day one of the Tattersalls October Sale in Newmarket, acquiring 4 beautifully bred lots for a gross 945 000 gns
Though Jooste says no one should go into racing to make money, he adds that he runs his racing operation like he does Steinhoff.He is not sure how many horses he owns – a racing manager deals with that – but he buys between 30 and 40 horses a year
Many thought that Hill Fifty Four had missed the one chance that he had to win the Met when running second to outsider Martial Eagle in 2013. But the son of Captain Al came out in a galloping mood at Kenilworth on Saturday to pull off a rather spectacular win in the R2,5 million Gr1 race over 2000m and run for the 37th time under the J&B banner.
Joey Ramsden’s Variety Club once again asserted his status as South Africa’s top miler with a brilliant win in the Gr1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge.
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Michael Roberts has always been one of South Africa’s greatest ever jockeys and he is a favourite son of KwaZulu-Natal. His annual raceday attracted a
It is eerie to think that there would have been no Siren’s Call, Sound Of Warning, or for that matter Call To Unite, had fate not decreed that Enchanted Cove follow her dam to South Africa, and that Peter de Beyer had the foresight to return Elusive Fort back home from the States as well!
There’s lots more to play for!
