Extraordinarily, the Listed Umngeni was to be her first and last stakes victory but her connections will take the bonus with both hands. Particularly after part-owner Lindy White had to resort to ‘bullying’ to get the affable Dennis Drier to run her one last time
South Africa’s shortest race and a test of breakneck speed is dominated by the omnipresent Var who sires trifecta in clean sweep
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’
