Remarkable Front-Running Effort In Aussie Gr1
Pride Of Jenni led by up to an incredible 60 lengths – or 150m – mid race to the gasps of the big Randwick crowd and punters watching around the world
13th April 2024
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Pride Of Jenni led by up to an incredible 60 lengths – or 150m – mid race to the gasps of the big Randwick crowd and punters watching around the world
Zac Purton’s relentless pursuit of Douglas Whyte’s Hong Kong record of 1,813 wins annexed another important milestone at Happy Valley on Wednesday
Master trainer says that he will meet with owner at National Yearling Sale to discuss SA Champions Season plans, including possibility of a Hollywoodbets Durban July bid
The countdown to the South African Champions Season has begun and Hollywoodbets has this week confirmed a stakes injection of an incredible R10,6 million
The maiden Taxhaven went from 78 to 96, despite running to a considerably higher rating, having finished only 2.75 behind the 116 rated line horse at level weights
For the first time in South Africa, a horse was scratched from a race for elevated pre-race TC02 levels
Tony Cruz further cemented his place in Hong Kong racing’s firmament of stars by reaching the 1500-win milestone as a trainer
The Pierro x Winx filly’s price of A$10m eclipsed the previous world record for a yearling filly set in 2013 and decimated the Southern Hemisphere yearling record price of $5m
A remarkable feat of training and jockeyship delivered the goods in the Jonsson Workwear Gr1 Computaform Sprint at Turffontein
Running fresh off a brave second behind Double Superlative in the WSB Cape Town Met ten weeks ago, the son of Vercingetorix powered up the middle carrying topweight under replacement rider Morne Winnaar to catch the dour pacesetter Montien
The meeting hails the return to action of national log-leader Richard Fourie after a short break
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
