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Conspiracy theories may have abounded at Greyville last Wednesday when the day’s banker bet refused to load and was withdrawn at the start – only to be substituted in the exotics with a half unlikely tote favourite, who, horror of horrors, failed to run into the money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?
The official report states that an investigation has been opened into the circumstances which led to Babelicious (A Fortune), which paraded and proceeded to the start in red earmuffs, racing without blinkers, as carded
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
