The Ato gelding Chijmes confirmed again that he is no slouch when leading all the way to win the R150 000 Listed Sea Cottage Stakes
The beautifully bred Summerhill stallion Capetown Noir opened his account with his first runner
A survey of racing success as a factor of how much money you spend was recently undertaken in Australia – and read more how the original Ready To Run has spawned close on 40 millionaires
Those that’ve made the annual pilgrimage will know that the Ready To Run gallops at Summerhill had evolved into a national institution over the first three decades of their existence
She hadn’t won a race for almost two years but that didn’t stop Witchcraft from going start to finish to cause the upset
Former KZN galloper Breakfast Club has adapted quickly to his new Port Elizabeth home base and broke the ice in style
While the victory by Visionaire daughter Takingthepeace had plenty of in-house emotion attached to it, the win by a lesser fancied De Kock galloper caught punters wrong-footed
It takes a good horse to turn an ordinary day on its head and SA champion trainer Sean Tarry got what he was looking for when saddling the progressive Big Bear
The gallops for the 2017 Emperors Palace Summerhill Ready To Run Sale are now available for viewing online.
”Too many horses are not making their production costs in the sales ring and we invite you to talk to us about your needs…’
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’