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 flying grey Captain Al filly All Is Secret came out with all engines firing to win the Gr1 Thekwini Stakes over 1600m at Greyville on Super Saturday. In so doing Vaughan Marshall’s ball of fire proved her Golden Slipper run all wrong.
Endless winter rains played havoc with the racing surface and resulted in the abandonment of the Kenilworth 21 July meeting. Only two races were held before the meeting was abandoned.
Former South African horse Choisir wins the Gr3 Republic Cup at Borrowdale on Saturday and proves the value of racing North of the Limpopo
A brilliant sprinter bounced back to his best in the Gr1 Mercury Sprint at Clairwood on 14 July. Mike Bass’ What A Winter showed he has few peers over 1200m, when on song
Piere Strydom miraculously extracted a final surge of energy from out of the blue, from the outstanding Jet Master colt Pomodoro to win the 2012 Gr1 Vodacom Durban July. What a race!
The running of the R500 000 Gr1 Durban Golden Slipper at Greyville on Saturday had trainer Mike De Kock in various stages of elation and aggravation
A fast rising star in the two year old ranks played his first major leading role on Saturday. The R500 000 Gr1 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Horseshoe was turned into a procession by Corne Spies’ War Horse
Former SA Derby winner Seal made the R350 000 Gr2 Mango Gold Vase run over 3000m at Greyville on Saturday, all his own with an impressive exhibition of staying prowess
The R500 000 Gr1 Garden Province Stakes produced the match race expected with two of South Africa’s top fillies duelling all the way to the wire
A top-class ride on what looks like an emerging three year old star sired by a relatively unfashionable stallion was the highlight of the R200 000 Gr3 Schweppes 2200 run at Greyville on Saturday.
A Gauteng horse spoilt the KZN party at Greyville on Sunday, when the inaugural running of the generously fattened R1 million KZN Breeders 1600 went to the Muhtafal gelding Knock On Wood.
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!
There’s lots more to play for!
