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Saturday sees the running of the Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas – a breeding ground of great families
30th November 2017
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Saturday sees the running of the Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas – a breeding ground of great families
If betting drives turnover and turnover keeps racing in business, it is in all our interests to enable our customers to the best of our ability. Therefore barrier trials deserve our full support.
Is the environment for small trainers in South Africa becoming increasingly inhospitable?
The Appeal Board should fix what is wrong, or at the very least, try to move towards what is more correct
‘I generally find public spats quite juvenile and leave them to waste away in the recycle bin of life’
Easy To Please went and did the unexpected, something that dreams are made of. He stamped his name in that book of the best horse racing stories that we all carry around in our head.
The recent unsuccesful appeal by trainer Mike de Kock for a higher merit rating for debut winner Pietro Mascagni has evoked some puzzlement amongst the connections
If you are not an invited guest sitting in one of the air conditioned rooms , then it is tough to really enjoy the day as an Average Joe
Argentinian import Hat Puntano left his connections scratching their heads after his South African debut. But a little luck a little out of the box thinking has got him back on track
Doug Campbell’s smart King’s Bay was the first South African purchase by the China Horse Club in 2013. After a luckless international campaign, he has just resurfaced in Australia and debuted Downunder at Moonee Valley last Friday
Who will have the balls to stand up and say ‘I gave the order’, and the reasons are xy and z?
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
