Ormond Ferraris

Strydom on Championship

South Africa’s champion jockey talks about the jockey title race, Khumalo’s guilty verdict, his own July ride and a veteran trainer who is obviously an avid reader of his weekly column

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Top Of The Tree

What a day for the Oppenheimer family! A race sponsored by daughter Mary Slack is won by Mum Bridget Oppenheimer with a horse by Tiger Ridge out of a Fort Wood mare!

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Figgy Retires

Guillermo “Willy” Figueroa, one of South Africa’s most popular jockeys, has retired from race riding.

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Senor Santa 1-2 For Ridgemont’s Rafeef

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

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