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It’s decision time for the Varsfontein team – stay home or travel the promising Captain Al colt into the SA Champions Season lion’s den
It’s decision time for the Varsfontein team – stay home or travel the promising Captain Al colt into the SA Champions Season lion’s den
The Brett Crawford Racing Team crowned a memorable feature weekend when the What A Winter colt Armando proved too strong for his rivals
Not to be outdone by his Milnerton neighbours, high-riding Joey Ramsden achieved the feature exacta when he produced the top two home in the Listed Somerset 1200
Drakenstein sire What A Winter has made a sizzling impact with his first crop
The improvement capacity and scope of 2yo’s was demonstrated by Joey Ramsden’s smart looking Attenborough, who was a facile winner of the Listed Somerset 1200 at Kenilworth on Sunday
Don’t ignore Phillipi based Riaan Van Reenen – he may have a trick or two up his own sleeve in the Listed Somerset 1200
The salestopping Var colt Tar Heel endorsed the quality of the groundbreaking inaugural 2014 CTS Johannesburg Ready To Run Sale, when he charged home to win the R125 000 Listed Somerset 1200
The form yards may be best to follow – and that means Ramsden and Crawford – but they saddle half the field between them.
Cape as bad as KZN as juvenile features attract small fields, but Ramsden shows he is not sleeping on the job
Seven runners go to post in the Listed Somerset and one only need do the maths without the Justin Snaith trio of first timers pitching up
A potential future star takes his next step up the ladder at Kenilworth on Saturday
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’