Summer Cup Day Washout
An IT related crisis hit the national totalisator on a forgettable day for South African racing on Saturday
25th November 2017
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An IT related crisis hit the national totalisator on a forgettable day for South African racing on Saturday
The full Grand National meeting from Aintree will be the main foreign meeting for South African punters on Saturday afternoon
We have received enquiries from punters regarding an unusually small quartet dividend
An enquiry from a punter regarding the Hong Kong racing on Wednesday has led to Phumelela issuing this statement on behalf of the HKJC
Due to a mismatch relating to information received from the UK Tote and Press Association, Doncaster race 7 run on Thursday 8 September will be declared null and void.
The biggest winner on the meeting was a TAB telephone betting customer in the Western Cape, who bet a R3,120 Pick 6 permutation and won nearly R1.5 million
Punters queried a surprise result to the sixth race after a seemingly low quartet dividend, which also appeared out of sync with the trifecta dividend
Conspiracy theories may have abounded at Greyville last Wednesday when the day’s banker bet refused to load and was withdrawn at the start – only to be substituted in the exotics with a half unlikely tote favourite, who, horror of horrors, failed to run into the money
The Sporting Post has again been approached by frustrated and angry punters as the Saftote betting site goes on strike for the umpteenth time this year
When it comes to tote pools everyone assumes bigger is better. We know that commingling does a good job for increasing pools – or at least looking big. But for the punter, is bigger better?
Was the last galloper to win a race on SA soil with a seriously hefty impost Buddy Maroun’s champion Golden Loom, aka ‘Goofy’, who lumbered 65 kgs under Anton Marcus to beat Fov’s Favourite 26 years ago?
The Ndoro Stud-bred son of Wilgerbosdrift’s War Front stallion Fire Away, Alec Laird-trained Fire Attack dominated the 2025 Highveld Feature Season Awards
In the late 80s, South African breeders were highly skeptical of sons of Mr Prospector. The main criticism was that he was ‘a dirt stallion’ and we race on turf
The businessman was served with an interim suspension of his Assistant Trainer licence on Friday afternoon and has spoken out about what appears to be mostly a misunderstanding based on a potential lack of communication and bureaucratic red-tape challenges
