8th August 2013
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Sporting Post columnists share their opinions and insights into horse racing from South Africa and around the world. They are experts who have a deep understanding of the sport of kings, enjoy their thoughtful and fresh articles.
The Cape welcomed visiting trainers and surely anything that promoted competition and boosted turnover should be embraced for the greater good of the game?
ROBYN LOUW: A group of 20 000 women marched to protest proposed amendments to the ‘pass laws, nearly sixty years ago
The season has started off for us not with a barrow full of winners but with the annual stallion day being held at Klawervlei
The Common Room is an amusing daily diatribe – wined, swined at Klawervlei
SARAH WHITELAW: One of North America’s top stallions, Unbridled’s Song, was euthanized last Thursday at the age of 20
ROBYN LOUW: We are in the death throes of the Sheikh Mohammed / Mahmood al-Zarooni debacle
SARAH WHITELAW: Judpot is an exceptional young sire – with exceptional bloodlines to match.
ROBYN LOUW: What are the odds of one person ending up with two Gold Cup winners? Alison Mackenzie is colourful thread on our local racing tapestry
ROBYN LOUW: The aim of REHORP was to try and address the gap between a horse leaving the track and making the transition into a second career
It will be good news for South African racing fans that, despite a number of offers from abroad, Gerald and Karen Kalil’s multiple champion Quid Pro Quo will continue her 3yo season on African soil
The son of Twice Over has been gelded and will be aimed at the Betway Gr1 Summer Cup, the L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the WSB Cape Town Met
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
The Ridgemont’s Kieswetter and Drakenstein’s Rupert families are major players in our horseracing and the Monmouth Park feature thus held more than a passing interest for many of us
