With so much depending on a freshman sire’s initial market appeal and first book of mares, Wilgerbosdrift stallion Buffalo Bill Cody found himself very much on the backfoot when he retired to stud in 2020
It has been a common discussion point among the horsey crowd that nobody knew what was happening on the export front, except that SAEHP seemed to be spending a lot of money on a futile exercise
Born into poverty in Cape Town’s District Six, Hassen Adams was selling newspapers on the winter streets of the Mother City before he was ten years old
‘We have stables and equipment, and now we can return with our horses to fill those stables. In recent seasons the Dubai Carnival has lost its competitive edge and with that some of its glamour’
‘If you’d said in December that I’ll be running on Dubai World Cup night I’d think ‘don’t be so ridiculous!’ – excited trainer
Risk a potentially ‘brutal’ penalty or hang back and look to the Hollywoodbets Durban July down the line?
In the midst of a stunning season, Danny Shum set the tone for another potentially momentous weekend with Sports Legend’s blistering win
That he wasn’t snapped up by one of the leading Cape studs came as somewhat of a surprise. After all, here was a Gr1-performed, impeccably-bred horse, a smashing looker who had sold for R3.7-million as a yearling
Rodney Dunn has passed away peacefully at the age of 76 after a long illness
It is clear that the James Dean of the jockey ranks is as popular today as he was at the height of his career
The spectacular Hollywoodbets Durban July theme has been unveiled through a billboard vandalism stunt
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
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
