Candyman Baulked For A Run Again
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s bid to ride again after seven years out of the saddle received another frustrating blow on Wednesday
11th September 2024
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Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s bid to ride again after seven years out of the saddle received another frustrating blow on Wednesday
Sir Michael Stoute has announced he is to retire at the end of the current season, bringing to a close a glittering career spanning six decades
The highlight of the evening was the award of Horse of the Season – presented to the Allan Greeff-trained Joy And Peace, who also walked away with Champion 3 Year old filly and Champion Polytrack Filly trophy
The victory by Cruise Control must be considered a great omen for another Hollywood Syndicate speedster in Isivunguvungu, who makes his US debut in the Da Hoss Stakes at Colonial Downs on Saturday evening at 22h55
Trainer Graham Motion will saddle SA’s 2022/23 Equus Champion Sprinter and Hollywood Syndicate star Isivunguvungu in the $150 000 1100m Da Hoss Stakes
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
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
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
