AE’s World Record
AE Passmore’s forgotten world record and Full Dress – the greatest July story never told
1st July 2016
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AE Passmore’s forgotten world record and Full Dress – the greatest July story never told
To lift my spirits, I will be watching the July day in its entirety from a beach lounger in Bali hopefully not scaring too many families while donning my budgie smuggler
Thank heavens for the Lewis Hamilton-style taxi driver who got me to the sales ground in the nick of time.
It attracts very little attention in the local press due to it’s being run on the same day as the Vodacom Durban July
Charles Faull digs deep in his vaults for some of the best July stories never told and shares his thoughts on the 2016 Durban July field
In Racing’s South African village we appear to have a number of twins. Some of our prominent racing folk have celebrity brothers and sisters.
The late Omar Sharif once said that what he loved about the “mating game” in the thoroughbred world, was that it was like “playing God”
It is an absolute disgrace that a handful of shareholders triumph at the expense of the many stakeholders earning a keep from racing
The world’s number one sire, Galileo, was once again to the fore at last week’s Royal Ascot meeting
If there is a worse punishment in life than marrying a horse mad girl, it must be having a horse mad daughter, so thanks and Happy Father’s Day to all the horse dads out there
Champion sprinter Zac Sprinter and reigning horse of the year Stepitup both suffered career ending injuries in recent weeks
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
