End Of Line For July Winner
The 2017 Vodacom Durban July hero Marinaresco has been forced to retire after suffering a knee injury while preparing for a campaign in Singapore
3rd October 2019
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The 2017 Vodacom Durban July hero Marinaresco has been forced to retire after suffering a knee injury while preparing for a campaign in Singapore
Kranji has been graced by quite a few winners of the Durban July Handicap over the years – but only jockeys and trainers…
Mike de Kock, the most successful trainer in the history of the race, introduces new recruit Marinaresco, who will be having his first outing in a year
Four South African-based horses feature in the first 2018 listing of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings
Marinaresco is to leave his history-making trainer to join Mike de Kock for an international campaign
We visit Bass Racing to see how Marinaresco is faring ahead of the 2018 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate
The 3yo Marinaresco won last year’s Champions Cup, which clinched the Champion 3yo title. Can the July-winner follow up, a year later, for another Champion’s title?
The theme for the 2017 Vodacom Durban July might have been ‘The Colour of Magic’, but it took a touch of magic to prove that there’s no beating a classic.
The 2017 Vodacom Durban July. The highs, the lows and the little horse who threw his heart over the line and took us all with him
The 2008 July deadheat hero Bernard Fayd’herbe produced the thrills in the same silks again at Greyville on Saturday
Bernard Fayd’herbe became the only jockey to win the Cape Winter Series on Pocket Power back in 2006. He is still the only jockey to have won the Series, only thanks to African Night Sky, he’s now won it twice!
The highly anticipated first race on the revamped Hollywoodbets Greyville polytrack on Wednesday was well received by stakeholders, but was not without its drama
Cape lightweight Morne Winnaar has come a long way since being plucked from near ignominy by former Cape champion trainer Joey Ramsden over twenty years ago
The Rafeef purple patch continued in the 2025 Champions Season opener at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday with another crackerjack performer in the shape of Mon Petit Cherie who won the World Sports Betting Gr2 Fillies Guineas
A Transkei-born horseman who started as a Groom, the groundbreaking Lunga learnt the ropes from top men like Mitch Wiese, Glen Kotzen and Kumaran Naidoo
