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The champagne corks were popping down in the beautiful Robertson valley on Friday with the Ridgemont team celebrating another sparkling performance by their stallions in two provinces
After a historic record-breaking Classic Day last Saturday at Turffontein, owner Trevelen Pillay continued on his winning ways as his Master Of My Fate filly Clairwood Rose made a 75-1 winning debut
The Ridgemont team celebrated a Canford Cliffs homebred double trained by the Brett and James Crawford partnership and ridden by their retained jockey Richard Fourie
In our weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, including some slow-run Grade 1 contests at Turffontein
Milnerton trainer Candice Bass-Robinson and Sean Veale got the new Hollywoodbets Durbanville season off to a flying start under sunny skies on Wednesday
Laurence Wernars enjoyed a rewarding day at Turffontein on Saturday and the victory of his homebred Gimmefabulous, who followed up her Betway Gr3 Mother Russia Stakes victory with a courageous win in the Wilgerbosdrift Listed Acacia Stakes
This was her ninth win from eleven starts!
The R1 million Gr1 Computaform Sprint is the next target for Corne Spies’ top-class Rafeef gelding William Robertson who lumbered top weight of 62kgs
At a wet Turffontein on Saturday veteran trainer Joey Soma repeated the feat of winning the Wilgerbosdrift Gr1 SA Fillies when Fiery Pegasus overcame a rather frustrating recent form-line
Rachel Venniker rode a scintillating 150-1 double to own the early Classic Day feature action at Turffontein when she followed up her Ruffian Stakes win with a knockout 66-1 victory aboard Robyn Klaasen first-timer Charming Cheetah in the TAB Listed Storm Bird Stakes
National log-leader Craig Zackey celebrated a personal Gr1 double when getting the Sean Tarry-trained Cosmic Speed home in what turned out to be a dramatic race
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
