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.
The 2011 Listed Darley Arabian winner registered his hat trick of wins on the sand and the result was never in doubt as he powered on relentlessly. Jet Jamboree is likely to start favourite for Africa’s richest sand race
“Derreck David and JP van der Merwe are my stable jockeys, but sometimes one has to make strategic decisions” says the astute Azzie, as he also concedes he is ‘like a child in a sweet shop at the sales’
Messrs Finch, Kieswetter and Ramsden all smiles after very impressive win at second start for Cold As Ice- and some sweet timing for Pippa Mickleburgh as her dam foals down to Var just 48 hours earlier
It is an indication of how long the Badger’s Drift gelding Lord Badger has been plying his trade that a certain former Tellytrack presenter and top-rate jockey rode him to win at generous odds on debut
On the weight-for-age terms of the early season Women’s Day feature, it was very difficult to oppose the consistent 9 t0 20 favourite Priceless Jewel and she was a popular exotic banker on a day of small fields
What must have been a rather emotionally motivated decision by his connections to send him to stud, ended after just two seasons of poor support and these days he is apparently enjoying life as an accomplished showjumper in Gauteng
Imports swept the boards in Saturday’s Flamingo Park triple feature. And none was more impressive than Corne Spies’ Brazillian-bred 4yo Anger who made a procession of the Betting World Sprint. He may go for the Emerald Cup…
Four winners and feature 1-2 for new SA champion trainer means flying start to new season as winter allows Final Fling Stakes to finally happen
Newly crowned Northern Cape champion jockey Muzi Yeni started the new season in enthusiastic style and rode two early winners before again taking the fight to his opposition as he let King’s Joy stride out front ahead of Lunar Emblem with Taqdeer five lengths adrift
Improving on big names like De Kock, Ramsden and Soma is not easy. But Bill Human has done really well with Dansili Express. An expensive purchase, the gelding has found a happy home in the Northern Cape and should pay to follow
The next time your trainer makes excuses about not running your horses, cite the Blaze Of Fire precedent. This gutsy 6yo entire was pacing it out behind Futura in the Gr1 Champions Cup on Super Saturday and just six days later came out and did more pace work at Fairview
It is eerie to think that there would have been no Siren’s Call, Sound Of Warning, or for that matter Call To Unite, had fate not decreed that Enchanted Cove follow her dam to South Africa, and that Peter de Beyer had the foresight to return Elusive Fort back home from the States as well!
