Two SA Champions Season Features Lose Grade 1 Ranking
South African horseracing falls under the Asian Racing Federation and the Graded status of races is decided by the Asian Pattern Committee (APC)
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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’
Hollie Doyle and Tom Marquand, who are in Hong Kong on a short stint to cover injured colleagues Zac Purton, Vincent Ho, Angus Chung and Keith Yeung, both posted their first wins at Sha Tin
The veteran horseman wouldn’t have stuck it out this long if he didn’t believe that there was something in the pipeline, and it’s worth noting that the Bruce Le Roux-bred son of Mogok has earned at 73% of his 30 starts over 5 seasons