Bling Undergoes Surgery
Former SA Champion jockey Smanga ‘Bling’ Khumalo was discharged from hospital on Thursday following knee surgery
26th September 2024
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Former SA Champion jockey Smanga ‘Bling’ Khumalo was discharged from hospital on Thursday following knee surgery
Silent Witness is the only horse immortalised in bronze as a statue at Sha Tin, and the SA champion rider fondly recalls the galloper’s supreme competitive spirit ahead of Sunday’s R46 million equivalent Gr1 Sprinters Stakes at Nakayama
A natural lightweight, Cole ‘Frost’ Dicken booted home a double for the powerful Glen Kotzen Summerveld satellite yard at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday
‘He got what he needed out of the Da Hoss Stakes and he will have his first work since his race outing this coming Friday’ – Graham Motion
In the same week that her good son Call To Unite won the 2024 renewal of the Listed Settler’s Trophy, South African horseracing bid a sad farewell to the outstanding Siren’s Call
Gr1 star Gimme A Prince returns to action on Saturday at Hollywoodbets Durbanville
Both Luke Ferraris and Keagan de Melo found the winner’s box on a competitive day of racing at Sha Tin on Sunday
The 25 year old is the first Hong Kong-born female jockey to ride a winner in the city since Kei Chiong in July 2017
After his hat-trick in the famous Wernars silks at Turffontein on Saturday, multiple champion Piere Strydom showed again that age is just a number
South Africa’s lone female professional jockey Rachel Venniker celebrated her first day at the scenic country course with a feature first on Justin Snaith’s lightly raced Call To Unite
Daughter of Trippi gives Grant van Niekerk a ‘bomb’ feel as we remember a big win in the 2018 Met
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!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
