Valley Wins The Merchants
Jay Peg’s hardknocking 7yo son Silicone Valley scored a long overdue first feature success
2nd December 2017
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Jay Peg’s hardknocking 7yo son Silicone Valley scored a long overdue first feature success
The Tara Laing yard have hit a sweet vein of form again and the Mayfair Speculators trainer enjoyed a great afternoon at Fairview on Friday
Fortissima rounded off Sunday’s Summer Cup feature programme at Turffontein when she registered her second consecutive success in the Listed Racing Association Handicap
The courageous chestnut mare Nother Russia rounded off a great Summer Cup day for her deceased sire Tiger Ridge
Trainer Alistair Gordon broke a personal drought and enjoyed the distinction of saddling the first KZN horse to win the Gr2 Dingaans in thirty years
On a day of mixed fortunes for his yard, trainer Johan Janse van Vuuren picked up his maiden Gr2 Merchants success
After the tote chaos of 24 hours earlier, the betting public climbed into the Turffontein Sunday exotic with vigour
Lucky Houdalakis and Muzi Yeni opened the 2017 Sansui Summer Cup feature programme
SA champion trainer Sean Tarry once again delivered the big race goods when his longshot Liege stayed on resolutely to score a first Gr1 success in the rain delayed Sansui Summer Cup
Popular 7yo Gogettesheriff failed to live up to the Black Friday value mania that swept South Africa when he walked out of the starting stalls and ran stone last
De Kock scored a cross-province feature double on Saturday with Sir David Baird winning the Listed Guineas Trial at Greyville and the dour stayer Kinaan powering home shortly after that to win the Listed Kenilworth Cup
‘We want to deliver the best quality racing on a consistent basis. That’s what we are striving for. We do not want to host the most racemeetings for the sake of it’
Just hours after the Springboks beat the All Blacks in Cape Town to lift the 2024 Freedom Cup, an equine speed merchant that first saw the light of day just 130km away from the DHL Stadium was announcing his arrival on the US racing scene
The South African bred former Equus Champion Sprinter Isivunguvungu made a terrific winning debut on US soil for trainer Graham Motion and confirmed his Prevagen $1million Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint aspirations
The evergreen hero travelled to Vereeniging on Thursday for a 100% strike rate from two rides that saw him bring up his recordbreaking 5555th winner milestone
