Accomplished And Popular Horseman Will Be Sadly Missed
‘A horse whisperer and a highly talented man of enormous intellect, talent and skill’
16th July 2024
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‘A horse whisperer and a highly talented man of enormous intellect, talent and skill’
The SA champion elect wrote his name into the history books again at Fairview on Tuesday when setting a new bar for most East Cape winners in a season
With racing in Singapore closing after the running of the Gr1 Grand Singapore Gold Cup on 5 October, winning the Gr1 Singapore Derby on Sunday has taken on an even greater significance for trainer Daniel Meagher
Dean Kannemeyer’s star 3yo Green With Envy will not line up in the R1,5 million Gr1 The HKJC Champions Cup on the final major raceday of the current season
Francis Lui has staged a magnificent comeback on the final day of the 2023/24 season to claim the Hong Kong trainers’ championship for the first time
The late Captain Al is all set to be named South Africa’s Leading Broodmare Sire for 2023-2024
Romantic Warrior’s outstanding performance during the 2023/24 racing season saw the globetrotting Hong Kong hero earn the Horse of the Year title
Following a stunning display in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot last month, the Kevin Ryan-trained Inisherin was all the rage to beat his elders for the first time
Winning Form’s recordbreaker Richard Fourie crowned yet another milestone in the greatest season of his career so far when he equalled Greg Cheyne’s longstanding Eastern Cape winners record at Fairview
JP van der Merwe matched Richard Fourie’s five Grade 1 winners this season when he won the Hollywoodbets Durban July last Saturday
An early decision has been taken to postpone Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth racemeeting
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
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
