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Without wishing to be rude, the reality is that trainers and jockeys are the servants of owners and punters and it is the latter groups, or their elected alternates, who must rule the roost
Top racing attorney explains just why there may have been no complaints against the Racing Control Executive
There is no more closely watched contest among the stallion ranks than the annual race for first-crop sire
My suggestion for it to function properly is that the Board be corporatized
Preakness winner and Eclipse Champion Bernardini has been euthanized at Jonabell Farm due to complications from laminitis
Nebraas is not the only winner from Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday to carry Miesque in his pedigree
A stallion that has galloped his way into all of our hearts and minds
Situated in the heart of the KZN Midlands, Bush Hill Stud offers easy and convenient access to all stallions standing in Kwa-Zulu Natal
A Thoroughbred Stud farm in Franschoek valley seeks to employ a full-time Work Rider
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What I like best about racing people is that despite the haters on Facebook and Descartes and the odds and the science and the linear logic, they will repeatedly abandon sense, sleep and safe accounting practice to put themselves on the line because they stubbornly believe in magic.
It will be good news for South African racing fans that, despite a number of offers from abroad, Gerald and Karen Kalil’s multiple champion Quid Pro Quo will continue her 3yo season on African soil
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
The Ridgemont’s Kieswetter and Drakenstein’s Rupert families are major players in our horseracing and the Monmouth Park feature thus held more than a passing interest for many of us
