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Since Saturday, Var has been represented by no fewer than seven individual winners, with a number of his offspring looking like horses likely to go on to bigger and better things as the season progresses
Drakenstein Stud’s resident sire Duke Of Marmalade was in the news once again this weekend–this time in the Southern Hemisphere
That “big horse” not only changes your fortunes at the races, but he leaves his mark on the balances at your bank, and the prospect that either one (or God help us, both) could come home for Summerhill is what will keep us getting out of bed at five every morning for the next twenty four months
I returned to Singapore from Bali looking forward to the Panasonic Kranji Mile this Sunday
Friday, 25 September 2015 brought the news that champion sire Zabeel had died at his Cambridge Stud home at the age of 29. However, with the likes of grandson, Lonhro, and a plethora of high class potential sire sons, it seems a sure bet that the final chapter in the Zabeel legend has not yet been penned.
I have been lucky enough to be selected for the panel. I have quite good results from my past selections but I have no doubt my luck will run out at some stage. It is an extremely tough job as one does not get much time to look at one’s notes. To then give selections whilst on this illustrious panel, with its many famous eagle-eyed experts, is not easy!
Trainer Louis Goosen dominated the finish of the R150 000 Listed Hampton Handicap at the Vaal on Saturday, with the slow starting Doing It For Dan powering home late to capitalise on a frenetic pace and beat his star stablemate, Trip Tease
In the mid 1980s, we stumbled upon the “Ready To Run” concept over lunch with the O’Farrells in Florida, America…
Hot Rodd, as he is known in Singapore, is an ardent form studier and when analyzing Flax’s best performances he mentioned earlier in the day that he was very keen to change the horse’s pattern and take him to the front.
Sunday Evening has become a tap root mare whose influence is still going strong half a century after she was born
Modernstone, gave her sire yet another feature win when she landed the Fasig Tipton Ladies Marathon Stakes at Kentucky Downs on Saturday
In a remarkable turnaround after a five year ban and many years of application and hard work, jockey Chad Little has been granted a licence to ride again
Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Greyville feature, the non black-type Model Man Mile, won by Mike de Kock’s Artist’s Model, paid tribute to one of South Africa’s greatest turf legends of the 20th century.
