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National Forest was recording a rather well-deserved feature victory – but consistency is not her middle name, and the form of this race may need to be digested with some caution
Trainer Dennis Drier and jockey Sean Cormack opened and closed the Super Saturday meeting, with a Gr1 disappointment in the middle. The performance of Barbosa in winning the R150 000 Listed Umngeni Handicap would have perked up the team spirit dramatically.
Avontuur-sponsored newly crowned KZN champion jockey Anthony Delpech and multiple champion trainer Mike De Kock got their 2015/16 racing season off to a flying start when the prepped-to-the-minute Mogok gelding Wild One stayed on best of all
The Trippi gelding Night Trip notched up a double when he won the R150 000 Listed Darley Arabian for the second year running. The 6yo certainly runs for Anton Marcus, who was aboard again at Greyville on Saturday
Crack heavyweight jockey Bernard Fayd’herbe rescued Cape trainer Joey Ramsden’s Super Saturday aspirations, as he steered the Silvano mare Gallica Rose to a career best performance in the Gr2 Gold Bracelet
Justin Snaith’s newsmaking big gun Futura gave us a glimpse of his streetwise fighting side at Greyville on Saturday when he dug deep to peg back a determined Ice Machine and score an exciting last gasp win in the R1 million Gr1 Champions Cup
The Summerhill Stud-bred Brave Tin Soldier colt Rabada maintained his unbeaten record and registered his third straight win with a gutsy showing to go all the way in the R600 000 Gr1 Premiers Champion Stakes at Greyville on Saturday
An opportunistic swoop by jockey Muzi Yeni on the Elusive Fort filly Lauderdale turned a horror moment for Mike De Kock into joy for outgoing KZN Champion trainer Duncan Howells
Trained by Jacques Strydom, the winner showed his versatility with a variation on his usual racing style. He tracked the pacesetting Blaze Of Fire the whole way around and then bounced clear down the outside at the 300m under ‘super sub’ Raymond Danielson
Trainer Tienie Prinsloo and leading apprentice Craig Zackey dominated the Monday afternoon meeting at Flamingo Park, when they also teamed up to produce the thrilling winner of the R100 000 Kimberley Nursery
Mike Bass maintained his purple patch of feature form when the Trippi filly Lanner Falcon pulverised her opposition to score a smart win in the R250 000 Gr3 Champagne Stakes on a gloriously sunny Cape winter’s Saturday afternoon at Kenilworth
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
