Christian van der Merwe
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
It broke lol lmao I wish I knew how to do emojis here (I use a
Editor
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
You sold the fax machine, Chris?
Terry van der Poel
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Oh my gosh they really through the book at GVN....my question is if the severity of the penalty is set on precedent...??
Secondly, while GVN was upset and frustrated, his comments also reflected the frustrations felt by many jockeys across the country. Surely these frustrations were stated in mitigation of his offence and comment received from the NHA at the enquiry. Why no comment from the NHA.....did they find his comments frivolous??
Thirdly, GVN undertook(prompted no doubt) not to comment any further and now he has to make a public
Frankie Zackey
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Frankie Zackey...Unfortunately Main Defender's 3 year old career was a very costly one,, not only was he in with a outstanding chance of winning horse of the year,, it also put a end to competing on the bigger stage abroad...It took over 9 months of TLC to get the Champ back,, I'm just hoping and praying that his progress keeps improving,,he's definitely not far off from being back to his brilliant best... Thank God the injury is behind him now,, and we get to see his results doing the talking on the
Christian van der Merwe
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
See my comments elsewhere regarding HKJC sanctions against GvN Neil He definitely won't have an ally in the HKJC as they kicked GvN out of Hong Kong not so long
Christian van der Merwe
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Good question Arthur I'm also waiting with bated breath. This is quite a tricky one to deal with so my previous guess was that it will be a suspended sentence. Thus don't ever do it again in your lifetime (or for long) otherwise the sentence come into
Christian van der Merwe
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
I'm pleased that I'm able to entertain you Hilton and can assure that I'll do my best to continue doing so. Mr Ed your welcome to provide Mr Witz with my email address. If he wishes I can put him on my daily distribution list of van der Merwe jokes (and other pearls of wisdom) that I share with my triple Fs (fans, followers and
hilton witz
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Thank you i am sure the connections who had runners planned for those 2 meetings are very happy with that decision and no mention made of how much stakes was lost unlike the mention of the stakes lost on the day the nhra stuffed up and led to the meeting being abandoned. The problem is its kept quiet just like many other elephants in the room ..Remind me of those 2 meetings lost when the cape loses meetings in winter because of the weather
Editor
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Hi Hilton
As a result of what happened on Wednesday 26 March, a decision was taken by the operator, regarding the mentioned meetings.
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Editor
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
It was an interim suspension only on raceday,
Nico Botha
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Is this fine and suspension only for his comments. What about the suspension and fine that was given on the
Christian van der Merwe
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
My take on it Donald is that the NHA admitted that they screwed up (were over zealous with their original implementattion) as they subsequently relaxed the reading. I hardly regard that as them being SILENT on the matter, on the contrary........ I see this as an apology to owners which were wronged but then I'm good (tongue-in-the-cheek) at reading between the lines.
I truly feel sorry for the connections of Main Defender etc. but hope that the subsequent joy he's given them has made up for it to some extent.
PS An apology and a ruling is not the same
hilton witz
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Mr Editor can you please confirm that cape racing had to scrap race meetings for the 2nd and 6th april because the jockeys refused to ride at hose 2 meetings or did they abandon them on their own doing ?Thanks i await your answer to confirm van der merwes comments above
Cecil Pienaar
5th April 2025
Longstanding Racing Fan Says NHA Must Get House In Order
Geniet die Saterdag Middag Christian 🙂
(Wet) Albert Falls Greetings 🎣
PS - I reckon GvN will still end up riding your horses and they will improve lengths
hilton witz
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
The only jokes i find funny are VAN DER MERWE jokes and S.POST has plenty of them courtesy of
Christian van der Merwe
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Not to forget Aintree Mr Ed My box swinger for the BIG ONE is 3,5,7,8,17,19. Played a PA too but not worth sharing.
Lets hope Isivunguvungu gives a good account of himself. I can't see him beating Howdeepisyourlove but I HOPE I'm wrong and will be cheering for him as will the rest of SA. For a change Cecil, Mark, even Fred and Christian will be singing from the same hymn sheet lol
SOMETHING TO UNITE US ALL AFTER ALL THE RECENT
Kyle Roberts
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
He should appeal.take this to a higher authority.very tough
Editor
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Hear, hear Christian
Let's enjoy
Mike Naidoo
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Thanks saw it too late Ed.
Christian van der Merwe
5th April 2025
Post-Race Comments: Van Niekerk Fined And Suspended
Thank you for that Frankie Even though I'm on the payroll of the NHA to represent them here (just joking) your comment has opened up my eyes/mind to things I didn't even consider until now. Truly a travesty of justice because he, his connections and fans has suffered by far the most because of inappropriate and insufficiently researched implimentation. I'll be brave enough to admit that I was pissed off with the connections on the day (to put it mildly) but I've since realised that I got it completely wrong. So sorry. I hope he rewards yous richly in the future, that is all we can wish for now because we can't change the
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