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Silvano Son’s Gutsy Win

No big feature raceday passes without a Mike de Kock winner and it was the beautifully bred 2yo Janoobi who got one on the SA Classic Day board for the stable

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Instant Success For Tarry

SA champion trainer Sean Tarry made a flying start to the Gauteng Easter weekend feature programme when he saddled the first two home in the Listed Oaks Trial

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Cape Mile Catastrophe

A dismal effort by the favourite Night Trip opened the door for the well-travelled Big Cat to grind his way to a shock victory with a sustained effort down the inside rail

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Another Gr2 For Kotzen

Trainer Glen Kotzen is enjoying a deserved Cape Summer Of Champions purple patch and picked up his second Gr2 win in the space of seven days, when the smart 3yo Captain Al filly Princess Royal finished powerfully to win the Gr2 Sceptre Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday

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Seeing Red

Punters continued on the rocky results road start to 2016 as Muzi Yeni rode a finely judged race to keep the Querari gelding Racing Red going from gun to tape to win

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John Slade (photo: hamishNIVENPhotography)

John Slade

One practices medicine, dentistry and even veterinary science. However, those that manage stud farms, are called stud masters. I can think of no-one more deserving of that title than John Slade

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Silvano’s 16th Gr1 Winner

Champion sire in South Africa in 2012-2013 and leading sire in Slovakia in 2007, Silvano has 25 lots on offer at next month’s Cape Premier Yearling

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35 Years On – Mike And The Mountain

2015 has been a trying year for the well-known Cape racing family and another victory in the Gr1 classic could not have come at a better time – with their Silvano filly Silver Mountain further entrenching her status as one of the best 3yo fillies in the country

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demanding lady wins ipi tombe chall

Well Related!

A Silvano filly from a half-sister to Val de Ra and Tevez is included in the draft consigned by Sorrento Stud at the Lanzerac CTS Ready To Run Sale at Durbanville in Friday

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Good For You, Chad!

The extraordinary story of Chad Little’s comeback to race riding at the age of 40 in November last year after teetering on the brink of the abyss of a nearly wasted life, received a Netflix-type boost at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Saturday

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