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Saturday’s result is a rare event, and in no way indicates a weakness in the MR system. Some horses can up their game when so required. The winner was one such horse
The racing world saluted a true champion this weekend, when Winx made her farewell to the track in the Gr1 Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
This great producer’s legacy appears safe through a growing number of top class broodmare daughters and increasingly successful stallion sons
As a young racing photographer the opportunity to photograph the Dubai World Cup was just a pipe dream. Thanks to the Sporting Post and Hollywood Bets my pipe dream came true a fortnight ago!
Takingthepeace, raced by Mathew de Kock, Michael Shea, Murray Makepeace, Craig and Ross Kieswetter, will be retiring to the Kieswetter family’s Ridgemont Highlands Stud
If we had more trainers like Tobie Spies, maybe we would all be whinging less about field sizes as our equine athletes languish in their boxes and don’t pay their way
The European sub-committee of the International Cataloging Standards Committee and the Society of International Thoroughbred Auctioneers has agreed upon changes to a pair of catalogue rules
The NHA have risked opening a can of worms as there was no warning given at nomination stage that one particular guideline would be deviated from for the first time since its inception in 2012
I am a firm believer in the adage that the horse finds you. Even when you don’t know you are looking. As it turns out, these might be the best ones of all.
When the unbeaten Maximum Security captured the Gr1 Xpressbet Florida Derby by three and a half lengths at Gulfstream on Saturday, he became his Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winning sire New Year’s Day’s very first graded stakes winner
In an innovative move that research shows may well be a world first, South African jockeys have been given the green light to be sponsored by one of the 48 political parties in the build-up to the national elections on 8 May
‘We want to deliver the best quality racing on a consistent basis. That’s what we are striving for. We do not want to host the most racemeetings for the sake of it’
Just hours after the Springboks beat the All Blacks in Cape Town to lift the 2024 Freedom Cup, an equine speed merchant that first saw the light of day just 130km away from the DHL Stadium was announcing his arrival on the US racing scene
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
