Proactive Stipes Review Champions Day Photo-Finish
Muzi Yeni and trainer Fanie Bronkhorst looked to have dished up a knockout blow in the fourth race
29th March 2025
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Muzi Yeni and trainer Fanie Bronkhorst looked to have dished up a knockout blow in the fourth race
Confidence is a major asset in the armoury of any big race jockey and Richard Fourie coupled that by stretching his luck to near breaking point with a bold ride from the front on Joey Soma’s Fiery Pegasus to win the Wilgerbosdrift Bridget Oppenheimer Gr2 SA Oaks at Turffontein on Saturday
The Sean Tarry trained filly Green Diamond shed her maiden with an impressive performance on Saturday to grab top honours in the TAB Gr2 SA Nursery at Turffontein
The high-riding Eastern Cape combination of Alan Greeff and Richard Fourie got the 2025 Champions Day feature action off to a flying start when the Varsfontein-bred Master Of My Fate filly Golden Palm showed her class to win the Wilgerbosdrift Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery
The Kannemeyer family have been making the ‘Great Trek’ from the Cape to the Champions Season in KZN for 52 years
Jockey protest led to stakeholder aggravation, embarrassment, financial losses, and robbed 52 horses a run and their owners close on R600 000 in potential stakes earnings with five races abandoned on the afternoon
Doug O’Neill’s Raging Torrent will attempt to win the Gr2 Godolphin Mile for the third time in his career and the second time in succession on 05 April at Meydan
All kinds of antics at the gates, but Sail The Sky declared a runner
The pack, headed by the strongly fancied favourite Regulation, chased hard in the straight, but the charitable advantage afforded to the son of Querari allowed him to steal the race by two and a quarter
Winter Games had his official merit rating increased from 91 to 98 after leading from start to finish to capture the Listed Kings Cup a
The Sporting Post can report that the Inquiry continued today in Johannesburg at the offices of the NHA
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
‘The actions of the jockeys on the day have given South African racing a black eye in the international horseracing community and have caused considerable reputational and financial harm to our industry in general and Cape Racing in particular’
When Grant van Niekerk opened his mouth after the second race, the complexion of a raceday was turned on its head…
In this business, none of us should overestimate our powers of prediction and our best tools are experience and context, couched in all the humility we can muster
