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 former Charles Laird-trained Solskjaer gelding Ice Axe made a winning debut on the beautiful Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius, when he downed the odds-on favourite IL Saggiatore to win the Gr1 Le Trophee Du Bicentenaire Du MTC on Saturday.
The Mike De Kock magic produced the internationally owned Tajmeel to win the Gr2 Betting World Oaks at Clairwood on Sunday. The champion trainer appears to have an endless resource of these classy staying females!
It has been a memorable Champions Season for Cape trainer Greg Ennion.He registered his third feature win from less than fifteen runners when Master Plan took advantage of a slow pace to win the Gr2 Betting World Derby at Clairwood on Sunday.
Jockey error would have been the last contingency in the minds of the Black Caviar connections as they tossed and turned on Friday evening. But Luke Nolen almost bungled the dream
Trainer Stan Elley made a welcome return to feature race success for the Badge Boys, when the Silvano gelding Punta Arenas won the Gr3 Winter Derby at Kenilworth on Saturday
The world’s top-rated galloper Frankel made it eleven wins from eleven races, by eleven lengths, when he soared to victory in the opening race of Royal Ascot 2012
It is really not a favourable reflection on the way the Capetonians run and ride their races, but Feel My Love showed just how good she really is with the complimentary factors of a confident ride, a true-run race and the assistance of a long run-in.
The Gr2 Post Merchants produced a thriller as expected, with just one length seperating the first four finishers. Michael Roberts trained the winner in a deserved change of fortune.
The shock late withdrawal of Triple Crown pretender I’ll Have Another, took some of the sparkle out of the 2012 Belmont Stakes run at Belmont Park in New York last Saturday. But it turned into a thriller!
Trainer Gavin Van Zyl maintained his hot streak when he sent out a first stakes winner for Scott Brothers’ stallion Miesque’s Approval in the Gr3 Betting World Jubilee Handicap at Turffontein
Let the good horses do their talking on the racetrack. Glen Kotzen’s Princess Victoria did exactly that with a great win in the Gr2 Tibouchina Stakes at Clairwood
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!
