Striker’s Working Like A Dog!
Multiple SA Champion jockey Piere Strydom has five rides on the eight race Champ de Mars card on Saturday
24th May 2019
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Multiple SA Champion jockey Piere Strydom has five rides on the eight race Champ de Mars card on Saturday
‘I haven’t heard anything further, so I am waiting. But life goes on. The bills don’t stop and we have to earn a living!’
Multiple SA champion Piere Strydom won the R1 million Gr1 Computaform Sprint for the fifth time this century
Multiple SA Champion jockey Piere Strydom has been given the green light by the Mauritius Turf Club to take up a three month contract on the island
Piere Strydom’s determined ride to get Sugoi home for Clinton Binda in the sixth race at the Vaal on Thursday was ample proof that the old man can still show the young guns a thing or two
Multiple SA champion jockey Piere Strydom is the latest jockey to have a Sun Met ride confirmed
“We all want the best guy on top. That;s human nature…”
The 1400m Pinnacle Stakes that opens the Pick 6 could be the other interest race of the day with Absashiri and Liege in the line-up
Disappointment for the champion – but he is determined to ride in the July
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!
