Ice Ice Baby!
Cold As Ice’ superb win was some fine timing for the appearance of her half-sister by Trippi in the Cape Premier Yearling Sale ring this coming Thursday evening
17th January 2015
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Cold As Ice’ superb win was some fine timing for the appearance of her half-sister by Trippi in the Cape Premier Yearling Sale ring this coming Thursday evening
The daughter of Toreador was given an armchair ride by Weichong Marwing and kept things in the family as she runs in the red and blue silks of his wife, Anneli
Trainer Mike De Kock sent a booming Investec Cape Derby warning to his colleagues as his unbeaten Australian-bred colt Ertijaal stormed to an impressive last gasp victory at Turffontein on Sunday
Grant Van Niekerk’s unbridled joy at riding his first Gr1 winner was tempered by a seven day ban for failing to ensure that he did not cause interference
Staying loyal to his young jockey after the Sansui Summer Cup has further boosted trainer Geoff Woodruff’s burgeoning J&B Met prospects
Charismatic owner Greg Bortz’ only instructions to jockey Richard Fourie were to salute in the direction of his suite. The rest fell into place rather neatly and Justin Snaith looks to have a decent Met prospect on his hands
The colt may not be a serious Investec Derby horse at this stage but he has plenty of scope for improvement over more ground and should get better over time
This is a game of soaring highs and testing lows. While one champion son of Dynasty was going out of the back door another was writing his name into the South African horseracing history books
The Striker legend dominated South African horseracing in 2014 as one of our newsmakers of the year with his milestone of 5000 winners and the outstanding jockey has started 2015 like a 25 year old supercharged wizard.
“This is what dreams are made of. I have watched her work and I felt I haven’t trained a horse like this since Via Africa. She was sluggish out of the gates tonight, but she is a racehorse!”
The enterprising Corne Spies is never scared to race his horses wherever he sees the opportunity and the only 3yo in the field was having his sixth outing in two months
A ten race programme headed by the R200 000 Listed Settlers Trophy has been declared for the Hollywoodbets Durbanville ‘Braai, Bak & Brew’ racemeeting on Saturday
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’
