In A Rush has been the Eastern Cape’s pre-eminent two-year-old all season and completed a clean sweep of the three Port Elizabeth juvenile Features which are open to males when he won the Champion Juvenile Cup
In the listed East Cape Breeders Stakes, a conditions event, State Blue may prove good enough despite having to concede weight all round. Justin Snaith’s 4yo would be a blinder on paper if the race were run at WFA, but it isn’t and some caution is in order.
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
Tragedy struck Suzette and Basie Viljoen’s fledgeling Wellington-based breeding operation Hopes And Dreams on Monday evening when the farm’s flagship mare and 2022 SA Horse Of The Year Captain’s Ransom reportedly died while giving birth
