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Variety Club: Horse of the Year 2012
Variety Club was named the 2012 Horse of the Year at the annual glittering Equus Award banquet
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Variety Club was named the 2012 Horse of the Year at the annual glittering Equus Award banquet
Variety Club, a son of Var, won Horse of the Year, Champion 3yo colt and Champion Middle Distance in both the racing and breeding catergories, at the annual dinner on Friday at Kenilworth.
Horse of the Year and the 2012 Equus Award winners will be announced at the annual banquet on Thursday 8 August at Emperors Palace
The 2012 Cape Racing & Breeders Awards will take place on Friday, 3 August at 6:30pm, Kenilworth Racecourse.
There were few, if any genuine surprises at the Highveld Feature Season Racing Awards, with Europa Point taking Horse of the Year
The unbeaten Frankel, who was electric on the racecourse throughout 2011, is tonight named Cartier Horse Of The Year at the 2011 Cartier Racing Awards. Owned and bred by Khalid Abdulla and expertly handled by Sir Henry Cecil, Frankel also takes the honours in the Cartier 3yo Colt category.
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
It’s time for our racing regulators to accept and understand that they are part of the game, and not outside of it, above it, or bigger than it