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.
Winning Form-sponsored Keagan de Melo registered an early double on the season feature finale day at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday when the Gauteng raider Gobsmacked proved a popular winner of the R200 000 Prosport International
Silvano’s Timer showed his liking for the polytrack and scored his first stakes success with an eyecatching victory in the R150 000 Marshalls World Of Sport Listed Darley Arabian
UK-bound Greg Cheyne produced a beautifully balanced ride in his final Kenilworth racemeeting on Saturday
The Andre-Nel/Sabine Plattner Racing Team put another cherry on top of one of their very best home seasons in recent memory when stablemates So Flawless and the year younger Young Love filled the feature exacta
While once considered a classic prospect, the very capable Mr Master Starter maintained his unbeaten status over the sprints
The former Mike de Kock charge Barak broke his stakes duck at his second run in the Eastern Cape
Described as ‘crazy as hell’ by an elated trainer Zietsman Oosthuizen, who bemoaned the fact that it wasn’t a black-type feature, the Rathmor Stud-bred mare vindicated her passionate conditioner’s faith
First winner for Mary Slack as Bling’s call to abandon Jet Dark for his sponsor’s filly pays big dividends
In a race scripted out of a fairytale for big day sponsors Hollywoodbets, the consistent Gauteng-based stayer Black Thorn stormed to victory
Captain’s Ransom will be rested in advance of the Cape Summer Season after a below-par effort in the R1 million Brentford FC Gr1 Garden Province Stakes at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday
Piere Strydom’s magnificent winning comeback to the saddle after a 14 month absence to win the R600 000 KZN Breeders’ Mile on the KZN Breeders raceday at Hollywoodbets Greyville was a highlight of our local weekend racing
It will be good news for South African racing fans that, despite a number of offers from abroad, Gerald and Karen Kalil’s multiple champion Quid Pro Quo will continue her 3yo season on African soil
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
The Ridgemont’s Kieswetter and Drakenstein’s Rupert families are major players in our horseracing and the Monmouth Park feature thus held more than a passing interest for many of us
