Clairwood Voted SA’s Best Racecourse!
Great racing on a fair track, secure parking, beautifully maintained gardens and fried kingklip and chips for R2-50. It was a winner allround!
13th May 2020
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Great racing on a fair track, secure parking, beautifully maintained gardens and fried kingklip and chips for R2-50. It was a winner allround!
Yesterday’s puzzle pic dated back 61 years and was of Mr & Mrs Phillip Hill leading in Colin Palm on Bulbul
In the past few decades we have been fighting at intervals to save our racecourses
A passionate racing man says that the very people that were ostracised for warning about what has actually happened, are still out in the cold
Yesterday’s pic of Emblem Of Liberty landing her first Gr1 prize with a gutsy performance over two big names in River Jetez and Dancer’s Daughter saw three of our posters finish right on top of each other
Tellytrack is a major part of one of the major mistakes that horseracing makes in its attempt to market the industry says a veteran television producer
Yesterday’s puzzle was another victory for poster Billy, who correctly found Northern Dancer
Think not of the gambler who is unable to bet on something, think of the groom who has acquired animal skills that could not be applied elsewhere, the work rider and jockey who dedicated their lives to perfecting a style older than time, the trainer who wakes up at the crack of dawn to watch over what goes on in the stable yard
It is either going to keep a large industry intact or collapse it forever
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
Leading South African-based owners Hollywood Racing have broken new ground with the acquisition of five yearlings during the Book 1 session at Karaka this week
Longstanding Dean Kannemeyer Racing team member Morris Mg Cube was the proudest man at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday after his favourite charge Gimme A Prince stormed to victory in the HKJC World Pool Gr1 Cape Flying Championship
