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!
With 21 wins in 26 starts Hawaii was thoroughly tested for speed, stamina, character, toughness, soundness and durability in two hemispheres and two continents
In the run for home Royal Victory, having his first run over 2000m, built up from rear of midfield as he picked them off one by one and had Son Of Raj and Safe Passage firmly in his sights at the 200m
