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 old gambling maxim that you cannot lose if you could never win in the first instance came to mind again with the disqualification of the Lezeanne Forbes trained Tombola
When are the racing gods going to learn that the game starts with breeders and owners and playing it like a pukka tin-pot dictator is only going to lead to negativity?
Barrier Trials were a great first step to enhancing transparency and consumer confidence in our sport. It’s time to take another.
When we celebrate our heroes, it’s important that we do it right, because it’s not just about them, it’s about all of us.
The NHA applied an in-house formula usually reserved for early 2yo races, where the form is scant and the majority of the field are unknown quantities
The Equus Awards were held on Tuesday evening at Emperors Palace with the pride of South Africa’s racing and breeding being honoured – congratulations to all the winners but it was a long, long evening!
While KZN is the only province in SA offering Barrier Trials, the concept, is catching on in the UK since launched in 2015
Pre-race tactical plans often don’t work out for a variety of reasons…
Is this pie in the sky guardianship play-acting on the part of the racing regulator?
The marketing rationale in the thinking of having an overseas racecaller on one of our major days is flawed in intself
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
