Moodley’s Double Crop Strike
“We bring in all these rules to be visually more attractive to people who know zero about it and are not interested in thinking about it.”
19th July 2019
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“We bring in all these rules to be visually more attractive to people who know zero about it and are not interested in thinking about it.”
An insidious creep of years of a shift of focus and poor management, with horseracing fading off the pace to run a dirty third to the priorities of power and shareholders
A jockey uses a person to act as his agent when that person wasn’t registered as his agent. The jockey gets fined R2500…
The conspiracy theorists enjoyed a few field days after the Hawwaam withdrawal, with inevitable fingers pointed – but seldom motives tendered
It is possible to address these issues and gain a lot of ground for racing but not while ego’s and arrogance continue to dominate thinking
The Sun Met and Summer Cup may have their own unique allure and character, but…
With Do It Again having claimed three major G1 races this season, and winning the July under 60kgs, it is hard to imagine that last season’s Equus Champion 3YO Gelding would be denied the title of Horse Of The Year this year
In a nutshell they have been dropping horses at the lower end of the scale far too quickly,
Horses really do change lives. Read how Stradivarius’ historic Ascot Gold Cup double has surprisingly South African – and July Handicap related – roots
A late premonition for Uncle Den’s filly in the big race
For those looking purely for the winner, Hawwaam comes out marginally on top on most occasions, followed by Do It Again and Rainbow Bridge, while several of the runners only ever win 1 in 100 races!
Big race sponsors Hollywoodbets have set the pace in the pre-nominations ante-post betting market for the 2025 Hollywoodbets Durban July with defending champion Oriental Charm topping the opening board
In our weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, including some slow-run Grade 1 contests at Turffontein
