Running fresh off a brave second behind Double Superlative in the WSB Cape Town Met ten weeks ago, the son of Vercingetorix powered up the middle carrying topweight under replacement rider Morne Winnaar to catch the dour pacesetter Montien
The meeting hails the return to action of national log-leader Richard Fourie after a short break
With so much depending on a freshman sire’s initial market appeal and first book of mares, Wilgerbosdrift stallion Buffalo Bill Cody found himself very much on the backfoot when he retired to stud in 2020
It has been a common discussion point among the horsey crowd that nobody knew what was happening on the export front, except that SAEHP seemed to be spending a lot of money on a futile exercise
Born into poverty in Cape Town’s District Six, Hassen Adams was selling newspapers on the winter streets of the Mother City before he was ten years old
‘We have stables and equipment, and now we can return with our horses to fill those stables. In recent seasons the Dubai Carnival has lost its competitive edge and with that some of its glamour’
‘If you’d said in December that I’ll be running on Dubai World Cup night I’d think ‘don’t be so ridiculous!’ – excited trainer
Risk a potentially ‘brutal’ penalty or hang back and look to the Hollywoodbets Durban July down the line?
In the midst of a stunning season, Danny Shum set the tone for another potentially momentous weekend with Sports Legend’s blistering win
That he wasn’t snapped up by one of the leading Cape studs came as somewhat of a surprise. After all, here was a Gr1-performed, impeccably-bred horse, a smashing looker who had sold for R3.7-million as a yearling
Rodney Dunn has passed away peacefully at the age of 76 after a long illness
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
The former Tellytrack ace suggested that the 2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July experience had been one of his most enjoyable yet
