Once South Africa’s highest rated 3yo’s at a point earlier this term, the Australian-bred Mount Pleasant produced another unenthusiastic performance at the Vaal on Thursday
Forever the pioneer, Mike De Kock is exploring new horizons despite a crippling export ban
Mike de Kock saddles his first runners – Yurman and Effectif – of the season in the first race, a Maiden Plate over 1400m on dirt at Meydan today
‘We are on back foot again,” says De Kock of companions
If the R20 million Pick 6 doesn’t pan out as expected, Dan The Lad in is currently trading at 25/2 with Hollywoodbets in the tenth race and could provide a get-out ticket
Graham Beck Stakes winner Malmoos overcame the rigours of the long road trip from Randjesfontein to Milnerton
Please note that the first eight races take place on the Inside course, while the ninth, the Gr3 Fillies Mile, will be run on the Standside course
With the Turffontein Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile day Pick falling a heartbeat short of the projected R7,5 million, Varsfontein Stud built on their Australian Gr1 success with Yulong Prince just hours earlier
The move by World Sports Betting this week to step in and lift the Summer Cup Stake to R1 million was the best news owners have had in six months
The Cape summer season could be run without any visitors at this rate
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’
