Horse Racing News: Pre-race news & previews and general racing news.
Francis Lui will consider a tilt at the HK$13 million Gr1 Stewards’ Cup with Patch Of Theta after the talented gelding’s emphatic HK$4.2 million Gr3 Chinese Club Challenge Cup Handicap triumph
One of South Africa’s most successful racing stables, Bass Racing has joined forces with leading sports betting brand Betway
The in-form Craig Zackey gets his first opportunity to ride Red Palace when he partners the daughter of Potala Palace in the R1 million Cartier Gr1 Paddock Stakes
Aldo Domeyer has had his riding weight restricted to 58kgs after he failed to make the carded weight on the 7-10 favourite Major Master
Multiple UK champion jockey Oisin Murphy is set to undertake his second visit to South Africa in the space of six weeks
Rouvaun Smit goes over the card for Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Scottsville racemeeting
On a tough Turffontein Saturday for punters jockey Malesela ‘Keratile’ Katjedi rode a cracker on the Corne Spies-trained Chocolate Soldier to win the Sophomore 1000
Industry talk over the past few weeks of the pending sale of the Kalil family’s Equus Champion 2yo Filly Quid Pro Quo to Team Valor International appear to have gained substance
Fourie was charged with a contravention of Rule 58.10.2, the particulars being that he misused his crop by striking Eight On Eighteen a total of 13 times
Rouvaun Smit goes over the card for Thursday’s meeting at Hollywoodbets Greyville
The R3 million L’Ormarins King’s Plate will be run at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on 4 January and the class of ’25 includes three exciting sophomores
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
