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.
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?
With the loss of the sponsor – as well as the old blue gums – the 2017 Western Cape Fillies Championship race day was not so choice
Horseracing’s great conflict with its own rules, process and rationality came home to haunt in the Greyville third race on Friday evening
On 22 October 2017, Trinity Equestrian outside Paarl hosted a show featuring a rather unusual class – the jockeys’ show jumping challenge. It was a blast!
Why do we not celebrate our stars and use them to build the cachet in our sport, rather than borrowing from others?
A round-up of Matchem Stakes day 2017, with hot pots, a special Gal and some great lads doing their bit for charity
With Brightnumberten posting 2 wins on the trot, Eightfold Path is firmly out of the starting blocks. Peter Gibson tells us about the stallion and Hui Guo’s South Africa venture with Hartley SA
Enable is undeniably the star of the 2017 middle distance season, but she may not even have been the best horse on show at Chantilly on Sunday
Charles Faull has campaigned tirelessly for the implementation of barrier trials in South Africa. We catch up with him to discuss Gold Circle’s recent decision to roll them out this November
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
