Fourie On Fire!
Alec Laird’s Fire Away colt Fire Attack benefitted from a superb ride by reigning SA Champion Richard Fourie to win the HKJC World Pool Gr1 Premier’s Champion Challenge
29th March 2025
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Alec Laird’s Fire Away colt Fire Attack benefitted from a superb ride by reigning SA Champion Richard Fourie to win the HKJC World Pool Gr1 Premier’s Champion Challenge
The Ridgemont-bred William Robertson’s milestone victory in the TAB Gr1 Computaform Sprint at Turffontein on Saturday will go down as the fairytale moment of 4Racing’s 2025 Champions Day as the Rafeef gelding registered a deserved maiden Grade 1 success
Constellation from the Mike and Mathew de Kock stable takes his place in the second and with the natural improvement that is expected, he should take a power of beating
Winter Games went start-to-finish to hold off the favourite Gladatorian in the R165 000 Listed Kings Cup at a sunny Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Aussie Craig Williams produced one of the finest rides of a decorated career to guide Cap Ferrat to a narrow victory in a gripping HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby, holding off SA star Luke Ferraris on a flying My Wish by a short head
John Size will saddle impressive last-start winners Bundle Award and Beauty Alliance along with Mickley in search of a fourth BMW Hong Kong Derby at Sha Tin on Sunday
After today’s doddle the gelding looks tough to stop in the R350 000 World Sports Betting Listed East Cape Derby to be run over 2400m on Friday 9 May, when he can bank the R250 000 ‘Triple Crown’ bonus
The 148th BMW Hong Kong Derby, carrying the total prize money of HK$26 million, will be held on Sunday, 23 March
The Newmarket-based conditioner collected a first overseas winner when Max Mayhem stormed home in the featured Longines Spirit Flyback Handicap
My Wish and Rubylot head an enthralling group of 14 selected runners for the HK$26 million 148th BMW Hong Kong Derby at Sha Tin on Sunday, 23 March
Three blank days on the local racing calendar this week is set to be repeated next week as South African racing adjusts to the mathematical realities of a horse population that can no longer sustain fixture numbers of years gone by
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
