The Flame Burns Bright
Cliffie Miller celebrates a ninth champion title as with opening day of season feature victory
3rd August 2019
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Cliffie Miller celebrates a ninth champion title as with opening day of season feature victory
Multiple SA champion Piere Strydom won the R1 million Gr1 Computaform Sprint for the fifth time this century
At the final Cape racemeeting of 2018, held at a sun drenched Kenilworth on Saturday, Crawford introduced another decent looking sprint prospect into his powerful attack
Sail From Seattle, who had 23 juvenile winners during the season is a son of Gone West, one of the finest sire sons of Mr Prospector
Phillipi trainer Brett Crawford crowned his best ever season at home and away when he saddled the R1 million Gr1 Champions Cup exacta at Greyville
Leading Eastern Cape breeders Ascot Stud and their clients Hedley McGrath and Dorrie Sham enjoyed an extraordinary day at Fairview on Friday
The Danika Stud-bred Pen-chan gave Ascot Stud’s late sire Sail From Seattle his eleventh individual 2yo winner this season
Leading sire of 2yo’s Sail From Seattle produced his sixth individual winner of the season at Fairview on Monday
Trainer Johan Janse van Vuuren enjoyed a terrific afternoon at the Vaal on Saturday
Brett Crawford’s game speedster Gulf Storm came of age in style at Kenilworth on Saturday, when sneaking home in a thrilling finish to the R1 million Gr1 Cape Flying Championship to give regular pilot Corne Orffer his first Gr1 win
Bernard Faydherbe: “I’m flying up next Wednesday, I’ll work the horse on Friday and Saturday, we race on Sunday and I fly back again on Monday. I’m very very excited.”
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
