Millard & Shaw with Royal Ascot entries
No fewer than eleven nations are represented across the entries for Royal Ascot’s seven Group One races
21st April 2011
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No fewer than eleven nations are represented across the entries for Royal Ascot’s seven Group One races
The mile Classics are the feature events at the two-day Guineas Festival on 30 April and 1 May.
Mike de Kock plans an ambitious raid on Europe’s biggest races from Abington Place stables in Newmarket this summer.
Travelin Man, a recent Hutcheson Stakes (G2) runner-up, made quick work of four challengers in his second stakes attempt, surging away in the stretch of the $147,000 Swales Stakes (G2)
Trippi must surely be the most valuable stallion ever to stand in South Africa. He is in the Top 3 of the North American General Sires List. R Heat Lightning looked like a potential Gr1 Kentucky Oaks winner after her Gr2 Gulfstream Oak victory.
When sporting great Gary Player made a special announcement from the podium on l’Ormarins Queens Plate day, his statement that the race will be run as an internationally competitive contest in 2012 was received with interest and enthusiasm. However, the implication of the announcement is much greater and deeper than most people realize, as it is likely to usher in a profound new era for racing and breeding in South Africa
Tony McCoy is the first jockey to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in its 57-year history. The bookies’ favourite won in a landslide, polling 41% of the votes from a staggering 293,152 telephone calls. The jumps jockey, who holds the record for most winners in a career, has been crowned champion of the jumps 15 times and has now achieved what Lester Piggott and Frankie Dettori never did.
SA horseracing needs strong leadership – today. Otherwise we are doomed. Stakeholders don’t need this kind of circus!
A former Bloemfontein champion trainer, Michael McLachlan was a popular character in the halcyon days of horseracing and now finds himself in dire need
