
Laff, The Good & Stu
Paul Lafferty and James Goodman chat to Vodacom Durban July winning jockey Stuart Randolph on the Winning Ways Show
Paul Lafferty and James Goodman chat to Vodacom Durban July winning jockey Stuart Randolph on the Winning Ways Show
For some people, horses provide riches you can’t take to the bank, but just occasionally, if you’re very lucky, they give you both.
“We have all been in this game a long time. You win some, you lose some. Saturday happened to be my day. We take what we can – when we can – next time things may not work out so well,” he said philosophically.
Mike De Kock’s champion filly Majmu is set to be retired to stud following her run in Saturday’s Vodacom Durban July
The party spoiling objection hoodoo threatened to cast a cloud over the bright sunshine of Africa’s greatest horseracing event for the second year running when the dreaded objection hooter sounded minutes after a titanic duel to the wire
While the figures make for impressive reading, if TAB is promoting growth, but not catering technically for it, then they are on a hiding to nothing and need to take a long hard look at their IT management skills
Tabonline punters have experienced frustrating delays and failures when attempting to place their bets on one of South Africa’s biggest betting days of the years
Run on the new-look tighter Greyville circuit, with a big field hustling and bustling for position, luck in running is bound to play a major role in the final outcome of the Vodacom Durban July
Massive betting pools are predicted for Vodacom July day – quartets, jackpot, pick six, PA, and of course the on-the-nose wins. Conventional wisdom has it that favourites win one in every three races, more than any other horse in the betting
The KZN Yearling Sale Million run over 1300m on the turf will bring the curtain down on a dozen glorious races at Greyville on Saturday. With an outsider colt and a fancied filly having won the first two years, there isn’t much in the way of historical statistical pointers
“In my opinion Futura will take a power of beating. He has done everything asked of him and is a magnificent looking specimen. His last run is best ignored despite him only finishing just over one length behind Legislate, as it was clearly just a prep run.”
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’