South Africa’s most popular horseracing competition of all time, the Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge has created a host of big winners, paying out prize money of over R31,5 million over the past four years
Former Cape-based dual Grade 1 winner Beach Bomb will debut in the USA on Saturday for owners and breeders Drakenstein Stud
Expert Eye’s first crop raced in 2022 and with 22 individual juvenile winners to his credit, he ended the season as England’s fourth leading freshman sire
The Cape Racing Festival Sales Day, a high value racemeeting that will offer high stakes racing from R6,5 million up to R10 million over the initial three years, and encompass the age spectrum, will dovetail the brand new CRS March Premier Sale, creating a racing and sales festival like no other in South Africa
After a hotly contested three-week public vote to determine which ‘Turn of the Century’ Flat horse should be inducted into the QIPCO British Champions Series Hall Of Fame, Godolphin’s Dubai Millennium has prevailed
Laurence Wernars and Gavin Lerena were runaway champion owner and jockey respectively on the Central Provinces logs last term, but will not be joining forces with the Johan Janse van Vuuren-trained horses for now
Bloodstock South Africa’s beautiful balloon of post-covid sales results continued its flight to the stars when the curtain came down on the final day of the August 2yo Sale at Germiston on Friday
On what could prove to be a red-letter day in the years ahead for KwaZulu-Natal horseracing, two of Thursday’s top-priced BSA August 2yo Sale Day 1 chart-toppers are set to enter yards at the Summerveld Training Centre
The East Cape Awards returns on 6 September 2024 to Fairview
The top echelon sires will always have the added advantage of bigger books, higher fees and greater quality of mares. Yet it is heartening to see that horses like Dave The King, Princess Calla, Legal Eagle and Classic Flag are proof that any stallion is capable of siring a Horse of the Year
A Mauritian jockey has been banned for five years after he appeared to jump from his mount in the home straight of a Champ de Mars meeting on 10 August
After Saturday’s potentially gamechanging L’Ormarins King’s Plate day, a total of 28 thoroughbreds remain in contention for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
One World made good for master trainer Vaughan Marshall to give the Milnerton veteran his maiden success in the 164th renewal of the L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate courtesy of his son One Stripe at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday
