My Favourite Time Of The Year
It’s a good challenge, a big challenge, but we try to always give people more than they expect
2nd January 2018
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It’s a good challenge, a big challenge, but we try to always give people more than they expect
Mother Russia won the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate in 2011. With her own entry for 2018, daughter Nother Russia lives up to her name – and her heritage
He’s got the potential and we’re confident he will pull off a big one – please God let it be the Queen’s Plate!
If I decorated my Christmas tree with all the best stories of 2017, Wavin’ Flag would be the shiny star right at the very top.
Over the past five years Jooste and Mayfair has had on average 3 runners each and every day, and over 800 winners; more than a dozen per month
‘Can I please urge your organisation to stand by your moto and do the right thing and stop Mayfair Speculators’ horses from running whilst millions of South Africans suffer ‘
With good weather, good horses and good racing, where are the good vibes?
The horse business is really a people business and that’s why the best horses usually have the best stories.
There were loud cheers from the Eastern Cape when Monks Hood won the 2017 Dingaans. Benmarne Stud’s Arne Botha tells us more.
Luke Ferraris had his first two rides under rules on Sunday, 3 December 2017 and with his parents, David and Pam travelling from Hong Kong
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
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
