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Dorrie Sham’s homebred hero Memphis Mafia showed that his stakes victory at the end of October was no fluke, when he powered home to gain a narrow victory over Fly Like The Wind in the R75 000 Guineas Plate
Seasoned trainer Geoff Woodruff teamed up with young apprentice Callan Murray and Deo Juvente to win the Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes
KZN champion trainer Dennis Drier put a shaky start to his Cape summer campaign behind him in just under 72 seconds at Kenilworth on Saturday
SA champion apprentice Craig Zackey looked in trouble when he drew his whip at the 250m marker on the Judpot speedster Little Genie. But the gutsy 4yo dug deep to register her second stakes success and a fifth straight win on the trot
The Moutonshoek-bred Jay Peg colt Exit Here stamped himself as a genuine CTS Million Dollar prospect with an impressive victory under a tactically perfect ride by Anton Marcus
A lack of size doesn’t count for much when it is offset with oodles of class and serious athletic ability. The Mike Bass team may just have given us a peek of the forthcoming Cape Fillies Guineas winner
Jockey Andrew Fortune makes most horses look good. Some even make him look good now and again. The latter may have applied at Fairview on Friday when the Var filly Cup Cake got up in a nailbiter…
There was plenty of raw emotion coupled with a satisfying sense of mission accomplished for Louis Goosen when he unsaddled the progressive Doing It For Dan after a scintillating win
Piere Strydom was riding at the top of his game again on Charity Mile day at Turffontein on Saturday and showed his real worth as the complete jockey when steering Robbie Sage’s consistent Madame Dubois to the peak win of her career
The two Ready To Run Cups had owners and trainers ‘chasing the money’ earlier in the day, leaving Muwaary to test his mettle against runners rated between 6 and 20 points below his 100-rating in a Graded race worth a pitiful R250 000
Trainer Gary Alexander has another top horse again after high class Pierre Jourdan’s brother, Champagne Haze proved best in the R2.5 million Cape Thoroughbred Sales Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup
Owner Stanley Chan announced the three-time Horse of the Year’s retirement on Friday 13 September at trainer Francis Lui’s Sha Tin stable
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
