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A Rocket Of A Classic Shake Up!
The Selangor Cup result could well see Mike de Kock rubbing his hands in the exciting anticipation of unleashing a member or two of his current crop of big guns on the Cape Guineas
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The Selangor Cup result could well see Mike de Kock rubbing his hands in the exciting anticipation of unleashing a member or two of his current crop of big guns on the Cape Guineas
A determined ride by the often maligned Grant van Niekerk got the Drakenstein-owned Miss Katalin up in the last stride to clinch the lion’s share of the R2,5 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes
Mike de Kock explained some months ago that Sir David Baird is a big, heavy horse and he was becoming problematic to train and was going unsound
The KZN raiding team of Dennis Drier and Sean Veale broke their 2017 Cape summer season ice with an impressive victory by the exciting Var flyer Sommerlied
Dual Gr1 winner Edict Of Nantes gave notice of his L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and Sun Met intentions with a fluent return to action at Kenilworth on Saturday
Dennis Drier’s Sommerlied boasts the credentials to win. Succesful in 4 of her 5 starts, she downed the Ramsden star Brutal Force at her last start – when smashing the Scottsville 1000m record
An inspired and keenly judged front-running ride by JP van der Merwe got the Royal Air Force filly Cloud Atlas home
The Silvano mare Girl On The Run booked her Sansui Summer Cup berth with a thrilling hard-fought victory in the Gr3 Victory Moon Stakes
The late withdrawal at the start of hot favourite Exquisite Touch threw a dark cloud for many punters over the Listed Gardenia Stakes
A well-related son of Dynasty went practically start to finish to win the Listed Java Handicap run over 2400m on the Vaal Classic track on Tuesday.
The Listed Golden Loom Handicap brought the curtain down on the Charity Mile day feature programme
‘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