Kenilworth sponsor on Saturday, Keith Steinberg, relates that Lektron started as a family business in 1946, which makes it one of the oldest electronics brands in SA.
It has been a fantastic few days. Obviously Variety Club’s big win made it all worthwhile. It is really lovely when a plan comes together, suggests Joey Ramsden
The Armitage family name was very much in the headlines this Cape Summer Season. Sarah Whitelaw looks at some of the stars of the show
I first had the opportunity to appraise Jonathan Snaith up close in the run up to the 2011 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate. I was pretty impressed.
For the first time in my week’s stay here in the Emirates, the sun is shining and it really is the most beautiful day. All set for Variety Club to step out in Dubai on Thursday evening
The last few weeks have passed by in a blur with the Cape in frenetic overdrive to squash in as much as possible in the run up to the Met
The 2014 J&B race meeting was a triumph for locally bred stallions. All three of the day’s Gr1 winners were sired by SA bred stallions.
Glimpses into the lives and times of racing’s heyday through the eyes of those who experienced them, are incredibly rare
Highlands have announced the death of one of South Africa’s most successful and influential sires of the past two decades, National Assembly
Joey Ramsden has caught the Met Fever too and he rates his charge to run a big race
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
