Wishes Come True
Little Genie has not been beaten since shedding her maiden and was having her first outing on the sand surface. She is a gutsy girl on the up and looks an exciting prospect
28th September 2015
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Little Genie has not been beaten since shedding her maiden and was having her first outing on the sand surface. She is a gutsy girl on the up and looks an exciting prospect
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’
