
Ngwane Rides For SA
Newly qualified jockey Eric Ngwane will represent South Africa at the third renewal of the International Jockeys Challenge to be held at Ngong Racecourse in Kenya on Sunday
Newly qualified jockey Eric Ngwane will represent South Africa at the third renewal of the International Jockeys Challenge to be held at Ngong Racecourse in Kenya on Sunday
The first black Swazi born jockey to ride in the Epsom Derby and Irish star Jamie Spencer, together with our own Bernard Fayd’herbe and Donavan Mansour, are amongst the 13 riders in action
The decision to run the first leg of the International Jockeys’ Challenge at Fairview could be a stroke of genius – but it could land up giving form-studiers a stroke by the time they reach the third race!
In what appears to be a bizarre attempt to muscle in and effectively hijack an event in which they had little involvement, Tex Lerena of the Jockeys Association of SA (JASA) has been threatened with legal action
A wrangle over jockey association loyalties has cast a cloud over the composition of the South African team to take on an overseas invitation side in this weekend’s International Jockeys’ Challenge, which will be held at Fairview on Friday and Turffontein on Saturday.
A rider that was a champion apprentice a quarter of a century ago is amongst the international ‘stars’
I think it is a serious insult to Bernard Fayd’Herbe and to Cape Racing in particular when our own champion jockey is not selected for the side
The final scorecard for this past weekend’s international: Jockeys’ International Challenge Points
There are several sides to every story. I’ve refrained from saying anything in my columns that might affect the international jockeys challenge. However, as Mr Wainstein has seen fit to make some fairly bold statements on national television no less, I have decided that he warrants a public response.
Six top South African riders will lock “bridles” with a mega-star cast of overseas jockeys in a total of eight races at both Turffontein and Greyville in the International Jockeys Challenge – at Turffontein Friday, 16th November and Greyville Sunday, 18th November.
South African horseracing falls under the Asian Racing Federation and the Graded status of races is decided by the Asian Pattern Committee (APC)
Explained – the circumstances behind the decision by the connections of the dual Grade 1- winning sophomore One Stripe to ‘bypass’ the R1,5 million SplashOut Gr1 Cape Derby on 22 February in favour of a likely final run on South African soil in the non-black type Big Cap
With the Aga Khan’s breeding and racing programme very much geared towards the classics, it can be argued that South Africa, where speed, rather than stamina is the hallmark of its racing programme, has failed to capitalise on the excellence of especially its female families
Rob Haswell tells that he has had horses trained by Nathan Kotzen for more than twenty years and pulls us up for our Umthombothi Stakes ‘flop’