Post race information and news relating to major horse races. We review and analyse how these races played out and discuss the details relating to performance and any other interesting facts people in the horse racing industry find useful.
Urban legend has it that Milnerton trainer and now top Vodacom client Joey Ramsden sent his major owner Markus Jooste a cheeky ‘please call me’ shortly after a thrilling finish crowned a spectacular climax to the Vodacom Durban July
Trainer Mike de Kock delivered a R35 435 quartet dividend knockout blow when his four runners remarkably filled the top four placings in the Gr3 Gold Vase
Dennis Drier’s 2015 Vodacom Durban July runner-up Punta Arenas came back to his best at Greyville on Saturday when he stayed on strongly to win the consolation July
The Baitz family’s flying mare Clear Sailing is due at Cheveley Stud in September but looks to have plenty of racing left in her yet
Lyle Hewitson is a young man going places. After all the fuss over his first group winner for Justin Snaith in the East Cape Derby in mid May, he was back amongst the feature winners for the same yard at Kenilworth on Saturday.
Van Zyl galloper now out of the Gold Vase and being aimed at Gr1 Champions Cup
The Ridgemont Stud owned daughter of High Chaparral made short work of her field to register her second stakes victory
The Cape jockeys’ favourite rein wrestling game of hurry up and wait made something of a mockery of the Gr3 Winter Derby at Kenilworth on Saturday
The Milnerton trainer has few peers when it comes to prepping 2yo’s and he maintained his 21st century stranglehold on the Cape winter feature in dramatic style
Milnerton trainer Joey Ramsden showed his knack of producing the 2yo’s to shine early when the beautifully bred Captain Gambler finished with a flourish
While the favourite came home fluently in the Derby, punters were less fortunate in the Oaks where Sean Tarry produced a 25-1 blowout
‘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
