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Mike Azzie’s impressive Listed Sea Cottage Stakes winner Abashiri looks likely to give Saturday’s Gr1 Investec Cape Derby a miss and rather target the 2016 Sascoc Triple Crown in his hometown.
It is very seldom that any jockey spoils the Striker party when the champion jockey looks to have the race in the bag…
Gathering Fame registered a unique winning double in the Listed Jamaica Handicap at Kenilworth on Saturday, when Aldo Domeyer piloted the Lammerskraal Stud-bred to a smooth victory.
A small field is often a bear trap for punters and class horses but top jockey Anton Marcus had dual Gr1 winner French Navy wide awake from the jump as he ran a terrific ‘Met trial’ in the weather delayed Gr3 London News Stakes
Trainer Glen Kotzen is enjoying a deserved Cape Summer Of Champions purple patch and picked up his second Gr2 win in the space of seven days, when the smart 3yo Captain Al filly Princess Royal finished powerfully to win the Gr2 Sceptre Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday
Justin Snaith stepped up the 3yo Cape Flyaway beyond the sprints for the first time at Fairview on Friday and the move produced immediate results
It is no wonder that Justin Snaith is keen to engage jockey Piere Strydom for the major Summer Of Champions racedays
You can’t keep a good man and the professional Woodhill Racing Team down and Kotzen was full value for a fine exhibition of programming for Light The Lights, who now looks likely to build on his early promise
The Alec Laird trained Smart Call will take her place in the Gr1 J&B Met after making a sensational local debut to score a superb win in the R1 million Maine Chance Farms Gr1 Paddock Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday
The Greys Inn gelding’s superb victory made a mockey of the general expert analysis of his ability over the distance – and of jockey Anton Marcus’s brave decision to ride him
The R400 000 Gr2 Peninsula Handicap run as a supporting feature on L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate date represents an opportunity for some Met marginals to stake a claim for the big one at the end of January
SA champion jockey stepped out under the Ridgemont flag for the first time at Hollywoodbets Durbanville today
‘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
