Ipi’s Lapping Up Retirement
Mike de Kock’s former Durban July winner Ipi Tombe retired to Denali Stud in Lexington Kentucky a few years ago
Mike de Kock’s former Durban July winner Ipi Tombe retired to Denali Stud in Lexington Kentucky a few years ago
The Council of the Thoroughbred Breeders Association Of Zimbabwe have taken the decision to formally close the association
Sunday Evening has become a tap root mare whose influence is still going strong half a century after she was born
Every year the 1600m Ipi Tombe Stakes is run at Borrowdale Park and organised by the Mashonaland Owners & Trainers Association
Ipi Tombe won South Africa’s most famous race, the Vodacom Durban July in 2002 as a 3yo when piloted to a dramatic late burst victory in the hands of Kevin Shea. She won four of her five starts in South Africa
An Ipi Tombe colt by Medaglia D’Oro comes up for for auction on Thursday at Keeneland
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