‘When folk are working in their various jobs they can get through their day by thinking about horses and racing and they can come home, watch it on TV, watch different jockeys, different trainers, different owners. It’s getting them through life, and it’s positive. I think people should all be entitled to have a little bet, or a big bet, if they want. It’s a free world’
Cape Racing’s recently installed plastic running rails could have saved lives at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday when a runner crashed through on the turn
The Corne Spies-trained Ridgemont-bred Rafeef soldier William Robertson produced a gutsy performance under a superbly judged ride by Apprentice Trent Mayhew
The victory by the Varsfontein Stud-bred On My Honour in the R250 000 Listed Racehorse Owners Association Stakes was particularly eyecatching and the Gimmethegreenlight gelding has classic prospect stamped all over his athletic frame
Former Australian galloper Six Pack embarks on a new career chapter in the HK$2.84 million Class 2 Guangzhou Handicap at Happy Valley
Trainer Jacques Strydom produced a rare long-term double at Fairview on Friday when he again raised the local flag in defiance of the traditional visitor onslaught on the Betway Listed Algoa Cup
‘We have a big race come around once a year and then this. I want to know what is over the limit. I would like to see with my own eyes and not just being told we are over the limit’
With two ‘Springbok’ Gr1 stars in the shape of Beach Bomb and Isivunguvungu in the mix at Del Mar for the first weekend in November, South African interest is at an all-time high in advance of the 41st running of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships
A total of 191 horses, crowned by 58 individual Group 1 winners, will all be chasing glory at the ‘Turf World Championships’ at Sha Tin on 8 December!
4Racing’s decision to move Friday’s Fairview racemeeting, hosting the ‘Gqeberha July’, from the turf to the polytrack, has been met with some puzzlement and questions. Does it serve racing best?
The Hollywoodbets Gr3 Victress Stakes (14 December) and Cartier Gr1 Paddock Stakes (4 January) are on the agenda for Saturday’s impressive winner Red Palace
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
