Do It Again outpointed the gallant Cape Guineas star Soqrat to join Mike Bass gallopers Trademark and Pocket Power as one of only three horses to achieve the July – Queen’s Plate double this century
Father-and-son training team Mike and Adam Azzie celebrated their first Gr1 success and put a forgettable Vodacom Durban July day well behind them
Father-and-son training partnership Mike and Adam Azzie have made a cracking start to their opening partnership season and saddled the exacta in the Turffontein Saturday feature
October 3 – 9 At Longchamps, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe is the last one run under the sponsorship of the floundering Ciga Hotel
It is obvious that we are nearing the end of a long hard season judging by the threadbare supporting bill on today’s Clairwood card. Even the most diehard punters would have found the fields generally lacking in quality and quantity and the afternoon’s entertainment was rather flattered by the healthy Pick Six pool of R2,8 million, which benefitted from a sizeable carryover. The chasm between the superb Grade 1 race and the six maiden plates on the card is a wide one and one wonders whether we should be looking to the trainers or the race programmers for answers and explanations?
‘We want to deliver the best quality racing on a consistent basis. That’s what we are striving for. We do not want to host the most racemeetings for the sake of it’
Just hours after the Springboks beat the All Blacks in Cape Town to lift the 2024 Freedom Cup, an equine speed merchant that first saw the light of day just 130km away from the DHL Stadium was announcing his arrival on the US racing scene
The South African bred former Equus Champion Sprinter Isivunguvungu made a terrific winning debut on US soil for trainer Graham Motion and confirmed his Prevagen $1million Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint aspirations
The evergreen hero travelled to Vereeniging on Thursday for a 100% strike rate from two rides that saw him bring up his recordbreaking 5555th winner milestone
