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Farewell To A Legend
South African racing awoke on Wednesday to the sad news that Maine Chance Farms flagbearer and multiple SA Champion Sire Silvano has been euthanized
South African racing awoke on Wednesday to the sad news that Maine Chance Farms flagbearer and multiple SA Champion Sire Silvano has been euthanized
By his own lofty standards, champion Silvano has not dominated this season the way he has for the best part of the past decade
The now pensioned Silvano recently achieved a notable feat when his daughter Keep On Dancing captured the Listed KRA East Coast Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville
A globetrotting pioneer, Silvano, Germany’s Horse Of The Year and Champion Older Horse of 2001, celebrated his 25th birthday on Monday
In another international boost for South African bloodstock, Gr1 Woolavington 2000 winner Do You Remember had her first foal win in America last week
Mike de Kock’s exported Silvano colt Hawwaam was crowned Horse Of The Year, in addition to picking up the Champion Older Male and Champion Middle Distance awards
He retires from stud duty 50 years on from the year his great grandsire Nijinsky II captured the English Triple Crown
South African Triple Tiara princess Summer Pudding delivered the showstopping performance of the afternoon at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Justin Snaith kept the SA Champions Season fires burning with his third feature success of the compressed big season
Mike de Kock’s newsmaking star Hawwaam returned to winning ways in style at Turffontein on Saturday
The ‘Ferraris-fit’ Silvano filly Summer Pudding made it six wins from six starts when winning the Wilgerbosdrift Gr2 SA Oaks
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million