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Spies Duo Fly To Europe
Cape Yearling Sale graduate Captain’s Run will stay home and chase the Highveld black type rather than the big cheque at Kenilworth
Cape Yearling Sale graduate Captain’s Run will stay home and chase the Highveld black type rather than the big cheque at Kenilworth
Despite COVID19 restrictions, the $20 million Saudi Cup will return for its second running on 20 February 2021
A terrific Gr1 win apiece at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday for the Avontuur super sires Var and Oratorio initiated a delighted smile on the face of the top farm’s General Manager Pippa Mickleburgh
He is marginally enigmatic, but the Spies Gr1 winner can fly when he is in the mood
Van Halen can pace it with the best of them on his day and caught punters wrong -footed when he bounced back from a dismal Cape summer campaign to win the R250 000 Gr3 Man O’War Sprint at Turffontein on Saturday
Tobie Spies’ Oratorio star 3yo Van Halen remains on track for a crack at the Cape Guineas in three week’s time
An Invincible Spirit son of SA bred Lecture mare Rock Opera won the Gr1 Criterium International at Chantilly on Sunday
Tobie Spies’ Van Halen, the top class Gr1 winner, left his base at the Vaal on Sunday for Cape Town
The Gr1 Tsogo Sun Gold Medallion at Scottsville on Saturday turned into a memorable race for Avontuur GM Pippa Mickleburgh and her team
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