Horse Racing News: Pre-race news & previews and general racing news.
There are six Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge racemeetings between a wet Fairview today and sunset on Sunday, giving you an opportunity to join the thousands of players daily in South Africa’s most popular horseracing competition of all time
Two days of sensational racing across the Irish Champions Festival have opened up the Cartier Horse of the Year chase
Gavin Lerena was charged with a contravention of Rule 58.10.2 (read with Guideline 3 in Appendix E on the use of the crop) in four separate races
Fresh off a superb ride at Doncaster on Saturday to win the Betfred St Leger on Aidan O’Brien’s Jan Brueghel, jockey Sean Levey enjoyed a much easier commission when he partnered the Barnane Stud-bred Lope De Vega filly Zip It Up to an armchair debut victory
There is a way to reduce the financial responsibilities for owners with horses considered good enough to race in the USA
Shaheen Shaw goes over the card for Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Durbanville racemeeting
Stone-Stamcor sponsored jockey Muzi Yeni maintained his excellent form this term with four winners at the Vaal on Thursday to maintain his number 1 berth on the SA jockey log
The QIPCO British Champions Series heads to Doncaster this weekend for a duo of high-class staying contests
Like Isivunguvungu, What A Winter won both the Gr1 Computaform Sprint and Gr1 Mercury Sprint, and was also victorious in two runnings of the Gr1 Cape Flying Championship
‘It’s always disappointing when you lose a potential carnival horse but there is no sour grapes at all’ – Matt de Kock
Veteran Summerveld trainer Paul Lafferty has called for something to be done about the handicapping of 3yo’s in South Africa
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
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
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
