
Vardy Won’t Defend Royal Title
Winner of last season’s L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, and expected to be one of the favourites for South Africa’s premier mile race in January, will be out of action for several months
Winner of last season’s L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, and expected to be one of the favourites for South Africa’s premier mile race in January, will be out of action for several months
Twist of Fate wore blinkers for the first time in his career in last year’s July and will wear them on Saturday for the first time since joining the Marcus yard
Up-and-coming Gr1 trainer feels that the sea breeze and the Cape climate mean that horses thrive at Milnerton
The Gr2 Drill Hall Stakes at Hollywoodbets Greyville on 1 May could well be the SA Champions Season launch pad for sensational L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Vardy
Vardy shakes up the big race betting in classic mile victory
Vardy mows down a class field – and now everything looks a lot less cut and dried!
Last season’s impressive Winter Classic winner Vardy is likely to follow the well-worn route of the Green Point Stakes into the L’Ormarin’s Queen’s Plate and Sun Met this summer
Adam Marcus is still in discussion with the owners about the future of his Gr3 Winter Classic winner Vardy
Revenge is sweet and after the Winter Guineas bump and bash of last month, Adam Marcus’ smart gelding Vardy enjoyed the removal of the blinkers
The rematch between One World and Vardy, while unlikely to overshadow the Scottsville Gr1 action, looks set to be a highlight of Saturday afternoon at Kenilworth
Milnerton trainer Adam Marcus looks to have a very exciting 3yo on his hands in the form of Vardy
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’