The anticipated return showdown between top 3yo’s Sandringham Summit and Main Defender is unlikely to happen in the R650 000 Jonsson Workwear Gr2 Dingaans at Turffontein on Betway Summer Cup day
He became the first jockey since Harry White to win the Cup in consecutive years on different horses
Clearly more fired up than ever since Cape Town has become a welcoming home-from-home for top trainers like Gareth van Zyl and Adam Azzie, the Snaiths securing of low-key Gqeberha resident Yuzae Ramzan was to prove a masterstroke
The trainer-jockey combination has won this race six times with other victories coming with Wrote (IRE) (2011), George Vancouver (2012), Hit It a Bomb (2015), Mendelssohn (2017) and Victoria Road (IRE) (2022)
Philippi trainer Brett Crawford only took two horses up the Garden Route for the 2023 Algoa Cup Festival which commenced at Fairview on Friday
Alistair Cohen, South Africa’s world-class race caller, has been appointed Senior Manager, Broadcasting and Commentating, for Cape Racing
The launch of new breeding venture Paardeberg Stud is to be lauded and serves as a welcome boost to the local breeding ranks
On Tuesday KZN trainer Tienie Prinsloo supplemented the progressive Erupt gelding Sugar Blast, while fellow Summervelder Nathan Kotzen nominated recent Michaelmas Handicap winner Royal Victory
The hugely progressive 3yo has had his rating raised from 91 to 111 following his win in the Cape Classic over 1400m at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Sunday.
After his victory in the Gr2 Allied Steelrode Onamission Charity Mile on Saturday at Turffontein, Puerto Manzano has cemented his place at the top of the latest Betway Summer Cup log
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
