A brand new chapter was written in the history of Cape horseracing on Monday with the approval by the Competition Commission of Hollywood Sportsbook Holdings (Pty) Ltd acquisition of Kenilworth Racing (Pty) Ltd
Trainer William Haggas took the wraps off a promising Shadwell homebred at Newbury last Friday
The stage is set for a spectacular day of racing on Saturday 29 April as Johannesburg’s showstopper World Sports Betting (WSB) Championships Finale takes place
The Hollywoodbets Kenilworth racemeeting scheduled for Sunday 23 April and then postponed to Monday 24 April before being abandoned, will be run on Monday 1 May
There was “no way out of it” a week from one of Hong Kong’s biggest meetings!
The BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) will be worth HK$26 million, an increase of HK$2 million
‘Oldlands bred her dam Adorable and we always wanted her after she raced. But could not afford her – that is until she came up on an online sale during COVID…’
Hollywoodbets-sponsored trainer Gavin Smith’s Vision Of Wonder caught the eye with an emphatic victory in Friday’s R175 000 Listed East Cape Nursery
The BSA National Yearling Sale – widely accepted as the holy grail of the South African sales programme
The first of the English Classics are a little over a fortnight away
Mimi Kakushi aims to break new ground on the first weekend of May when she carries the hopes of Dubai in the Gr1 Kentucky Oaks
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
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
