You can’t keep a good man and the professional Woodhill Racing Team down and Kotzen was full value for a fine exhibition of programming for Light The Lights, who now looks likely to build on his early promise
The Milnerton-based Vaughan Marshall yard are well and truly back to form. They celebrated a winning hat-trick on the Kenilworth Saturday programme, with the Western Winter gelding Exelero producing a sparkling performance after a 17 week break – MJ Byleveld rode all three winners
Former Gr3 Cape Nursery winner The West Is Wide turned on the speed at Fairview on Friday when going all the way under a determined Raymond Danielson to win the R100 000 Speedsters Stakes and give trainer Tara Laing her first winner of the new season.
After finding things tough going down in the Cape, the Mike Bass-trained 4yo Supreme Sunset took to the Fairview polytrack like a fish to water with a smooth win in the R150 000 Listed East Cape Paddock Stakes at Fairview on Friday
The truth is, Capetown Noir is a Thoroughbred jewel, and the boys up at the Summerhill barn will handle him with the delicacy Lord Carnarvon would afford a precious chalice dug from the bowels of an ancient pyramid
If only 3% of foals become stakes-winners and 0.5% become Gr1 winners, Oscar Foulkes looks at where and how to find stallion value
A dismal effort by the favourite Lazer Star in the R400 000 Gr2 Camellia Stakes put the final nail in the coffin of the Turffontein Saturday Pick 6 with a dividend in excess of R600 000 being declared
Hallmark Thoroughbreds-bred Western Winter gelding pulls off terrific double under young Wesley Marwing as jockey Derreck David maintains top form with three winners
No comparisons to Variety Club, but this flyer’s cruising speed could have them all running for cover early on
There are critics who feel the Mr Prospector male line has not been effective in South Africa but is this true? Sarah Whitelaw investigates.
Cold As Ice’ superb win was some fine timing for the appearance of her half-sister by Trippi in the Cape Premier Yearling Sale ring this coming Thursday evening
A former Bloemfontein champion trainer, Michael McLachlan was a popular character in the halcyon days of horseracing and now finds himself in dire need
