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.
Following in the footsteps of his father, James Crawford enjoyed the honour of saddling the racing family’s Fatal Flaw, who went pillar to post to win the 2025 TAB Gr1 Empress Club Stake
TAB Gr2 SA Nursery next for Mike de Kock-trained son of Rafeef!
One of the most versatile and consistent gallopers in the Eastern Cape, the Ascot Stud-bred Global View gelding Fairy Knight returned from an eleven week break to register his tenth career success
Winter Games went start-to-finish to hold off the favourite Gladatorian in the R165 000 Listed Kings Cup at a sunny Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Aussie Craig Williams produced one of the finest rides of a decorated career to guide Cap Ferrat to a narrow victory in a gripping HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby, holding off SA star Luke Ferraris on a flying My Wish by a short head
A humdinger closer with a head separating the Candice Bass-Robinson duo of Stu’s Girl and the favourite Johnny Drama at the line!
Electric Feels from the Harold Crawford and Michelle Rix yard may be the horse to close off the meeting
After today’s doddle the gelding looks tough to stop in the R350 000 World Sports Betting Listed East Cape Derby to be run over 2400m on Friday 9 May, when he can bank the R250 000 ‘Triple Crown’ bonus
In Time Is Money this week we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights
Holding Thumbs reminds us a bit of the perpetual motion machine Saccharum, who raced for the Fleggs and was trained by the late Theo de Klerk in the 1970’s
High drama and some potentially dangerous race-riding cast a dark cloud over the inaugural running of the R5 million HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
‘The actions of the jockeys on the day have given South African racing a black eye in the international horseracing community and have caused considerable reputational and financial harm to our industry in general and Cape Racing in particular’
When Grant van Niekerk opened his mouth after the second race, the complexion of a raceday was turned on its head…
