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.
Gauteng-based Joey Soma swooped into Scottsville and just failed to pick up the feature spoils as Duncan Howells’ Roc ‘N Rose shows her appreciation for the ground – and the benefit of a 3kg weight pull!
Had she stayed at home she would have had to contend with the super smart looking Act Of War over a mile at Kenilworth on Saturday for substantially lesser stakes. So in the end, it made lots of good sense to hit the high road for higher rewards
The Gr1 sprint brought the curtain down on 93 years of feature racing action at one of South Africa’s prime racecourses, and but for one last meeting which will host the Asian Young Guns Challenge on Saturday 2 August, that is tragically it
The saga of the poor patronage by the Cape trainers has been well aired without any public reaction or suggestions having been forthcoming. It was pleasing to see the one man that has committed to keeping the local winter programme going, at least winning the race
Gold Cup supplementary entries close on Friday 11 July. Blaze Of Fire is the only PE entry so far but why should Crown Of Gold not be there too?
Last season’s East Cape champion 2yo filly Yoshie came back to her explosive best at Fairview
The record books suggest that Beach Beauty is the first racer in history to successfully defend the Gr 1 Paddock Stakes, the Gr 2 Drill Hall Stakes and the Garden Province Stakes titles, all in the same season
The race is all about a great incentive and a reasonably quick return on investment for buyers. The top four finishers didn’t cost a bar between them. The winner went for R270 000, the second horse R70 000, the PE challenger just R60 000 and the eventual favourite, R275 000
The visiting pair were stabled on course and the win here also provided some compensation for Wylie Hall’s owner Michael Leaf, who was extraordinarily sporting by showing none of the signs of a sour loser in the post-race interview. He is a bigger man than many of us!
Still smarting from the emotional rollercoaster of the July, jockey MJ Byleveld came out firing and took Chestnut’s Rocket out to lead and he was still in front at the 300m marker
Afrikaburn is looking more and more like the complete racehorse and owner Fred Crabbia summed up the expectations when labelling him, ‘my Rocket Man of the distance races!”
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!
