A Right Royal Affair
With the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate just a few days away, we pulled a file from the vaults to revisit the story of Royal Affair, ‘the fastest 3yo South Africa has ever seen’
3rd January 2017
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With the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate just a few days away, we pulled a file from the vaults to revisit the story of Royal Affair, ‘the fastest 3yo South Africa has ever seen’
Was the last galloper to win a race on SA soil with a seriously hefty impost Buddy Maroun’s champion Golden Loom, aka ‘Goofy’, who lumbered 65 kgs under Anton Marcus to beat Fov’s Favourite 26 years ago?
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The businessman was served with an interim suspension of his Assistant Trainer licence on Friday afternoon and has spoken out about what appears to be mostly a misunderstanding based on a potential lack of communication and bureaucratic red-tape challenges
