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South African horseracing’s own Olympics and longstanding national championships, the curtain comes down on the 2019 SA Champions Season at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday
The prestigious Cape Premier Yearling Sale (CPYS) will be held a week after the Queen’s Plate on 16 January 2020
The Drakenstein Stud-based Duke Of Marmalade has made a very eyecatching start with his first South African runners
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“We bring in all these rules to be visually more attractive to people who know zero about it and are not interested in thinking about it.”
An insidious creep of years of a shift of focus and poor management, with horseracing fading off the pace to run a dirty third to the priorities of power and shareholders
Longstanding Scott Bros resident stallion Mogok arrived at his retirement home at High Eagle Stud in Camperdown on Wednesday
Impressive three-year-old Ten Sovereigns (No Nay Never) showed his class when running out an outstanding winner of Saturday’s Gr1 Darley July Cup
A jockey uses a person to act as his agent when that person wasn’t registered as his agent. The jockey gets fined R2500…
The conspiracy theorists enjoyed a few field days after the Hawwaam withdrawal, with inevitable fingers pointed – but seldom motives tendered
The South African bred former Equus Champion Sprinter Isivunguvungu made a terrific winning debut on US soil for trainer Graham Motion and confirmed his Prevagen $1million Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint aspirations
The evergreen hero travelled to Vereeniging on Thursday for a 100% strike rate from two rides that saw him bring up his recordbreaking 5555th winner milestone
‘The Breeders Cup Distaff is definitely still on the cards and Beach Bomb will probably have one more race before then’ – Gaynor Rupert
