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 Sean Tarry trained filly Green Diamond shed her maiden with an impressive performance on Saturday to grab top honours in the TAB Gr2 SA Nursery at Turffontein
Sean Tarry saddled his fourth TAB Gr1 SA Derby winner at Turffontein on Saturday when Legend Of Arthur was produced down the outside of the soft track by the rampant Richard Fourie to secure a thrilling victory
The high-riding Eastern Cape combination of Alan Greeff and Richard Fourie got the 2025 Champions Day feature action off to a flying start when the Varsfontein-bred Master Of My Fate filly Golden Palm showed her class to win the Wilgerbosdrift Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery
Alec Laird’s Fire Away colt Fire Attack benefitted from a superb ride by reigning SA Champion Richard Fourie to win the HKJC World Pool Gr1 Premier’s Champion Challenge
The Ridgemont-bred William Robertson’s milestone victory in the TAB Gr1 Computaform Sprint at Turffontein on Saturday will go down as the fairytale moment of 4Racing’s 2025 Champions Day as the Rafeef gelding registered a deserved maiden Grade 1 success
Following in the footsteps of his father, James Crawford enjoyed the honour of saddling the racing family’s Fatal Flaw, who went pillar to post to win the 2025 TAB Gr1 Empress Club Stake
TAB Gr2 SA Nursery next for Mike de Kock-trained son of Rafeef!
One of the most versatile and consistent gallopers in the Eastern Cape, the Ascot Stud-bred Global View gelding Fairy Knight returned from an eleven week break to register his tenth career success
Winter Games went start-to-finish to hold off the favourite Gladatorian in the R165 000 Listed Kings Cup at a sunny Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Aussie Craig Williams produced one of the finest rides of a decorated career to guide Cap Ferrat to a narrow victory in a gripping HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby, holding off SA star Luke Ferraris on a flying My Wish by a short head
A humdinger closer with a head separating the Candice Bass-Robinson duo of Stu’s Girl and the favourite Johnny Drama at the line!
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
