Bling Hoping For Some Late Season Action
Dave Mollett observes that the 2023/24 season has not been a memorable one for jockey Smanga Khumalo
10th June 2024
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Dave Mollett observes that the 2023/24 season has not been a memorable one for jockey Smanga Khumalo
With just 27 days to go to the big race, there were no real fireworks from the quartet of Hollywoodbets Durban July entries who lined up in Sunday’s R250 000 Gr3 Jubilee Stakes at Turffontein
Double Grand Slam broke the SA Champions Season ice for the Snaith team when winning the Gr3 Umzimkhulu Stakes at the end of March, when she was also Richard Fourie’s first winner this season for his former boss
Winning Form-sponsored jockey Richard Fourie rode his way into the South African racing history books at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday
Richard Fourie produced a perfectly judged ride to get the best out of the Arundel family’s Whistle The Tune to win the Hollywoodbets Super League Devon Air Stakes at an overcast Hollywoodbets Greyville
Helene Warrior earned a PP Bonus of HK$1.5 million after landing the Class 3 Shouson Hill Handicap under a brilliant ride from Lyle Hewitson
SAEHP is working with the South African Veterinary authorities to implement a road map to facilitate the movement of equines resident in the Free and Surveillance zones
Classic winners Ezeliya and Rosallion share the early lead alongside Tattersalls Gold Cup victor White Birch in the points standings for the Cartier Horse of the Year
It is a concern that the official handicappers are so hell bent on preserving the sanctity of Grade 1’s in SA that they nearly always inflate ratings, regardless of what took place in these races. This dispute also raises much deeper and substantive concerns about the official process, and application of handicapping principles in South Africa
It’s been billed the race of the season, and with good reason! A nationally representative line-up of 13 of South Africa’s best milers will line up on Saturday in the 53rd renewal of the premier SA Champions Season weight- for-age mile
In the many years that the famous brown and white colours of the Beck family have been competing in South Africa, has there ever been a more sensational winner than Lucky Lad in Saturday’s Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint?
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
It’s time for our racing regulators to accept and understand that they are part of the game, and not outside of it, above it, or bigger than it
