Now This Is International Horseracing!
16 individual Group 1 winners, including Golden Sixty, Romantic Warrior and Highfield Princess feature in LONGINES Hong Kong International Races selection
22nd November 2023
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16 individual Group 1 winners, including Golden Sixty, Romantic Warrior and Highfield Princess feature in LONGINES Hong Kong International Races selection
He was one of the most successful travelling conditioners from the days when he was behind the wheel on the long road to Borrowdale, Flamingo Park, Fairview and even Hollywoodbets Durbanville from his Vaal home base
John Size has become only the second person to achieve such a feat behind fellow Australian John Moore
Celebrating a joint national second most stakes winners last term and record stakes earnings, including Maine Chance Farms having bred SA Horse Of The Year Princess Calla, the family also purchased the historic Litchfield Stud in October
A R1 million Cape Premier Yearling Sale purchase, the 7yo Sachdev bounced back from his 2022 temporary retirement following a knee injury, to score something of a surprise victory
Starting at 8-10 on the strength of his impressive last victory, the classy Khaya’s Hope was given a confident ride from off the action by Louis Mxothwa
Mike de Kock and Sean Tarry have trained five Summer Cup winners each, with Tarry holding the current form power, having saddled four of the last six winners
‘It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance’
How is that even possible? To have the Speed to run this fast for 1000m and then the Stamina to keep going and even accelerating for another 1000m to stop the clock at 1 min 55.2 sec for 2000m
It’s been twelve years since Mike de Kock saddled Igugu to wear the champion trainer’s only SA Triple Tiara crown
While things definitely didn’t go the way of Highveld-based champion Mrs Geriatrix, Glen Kotzen and the Arundel family find themselves with a serious WSB Cape Fillies Guineas candidate
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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!
