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 R180 000 Hollywoodbets Dolphins Gr3 Cup Trial, a ‘preferential consideration’ race for inclusion in the R5 million Gr1 Hollywoodbets Durban July, threw a potential new name into the big race hat
Candice Bass-Robinson and Aldo Domeyer celebrated a top-class feature double at Kenilworth on Sunday, with two unbeaten 2yo’s showing terrific early promise
Just twenty for hours after siring his third Gr1 winner in the space of a month, Ridgemont Highlands stallion Rafeef was in the stakes record books again
It’s been a winning weekend for ordinary passionate racing folk and it started at Fairview on Friday when a little filly who never raised a bid at the 2021 Mistico Cape Yearling Sale stormed to her second stakes success
‘It was a double win for Corrie today – his son Lean is marrying the best wife in the world and Alesian Chief won the Gr1’
Justin Snaith produced his star 4yo Captain’s Ransom – a filly he labels ‘an absolute freak’ – in fighting fettle for the yard’s second SA Fillies Sprint success
Calvin Habib and Sean Tarry made it a glorious Gr1 double at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Saturday when Rafeef’s upwardly mobile son Thunderstruck stormed to a facile victory
After a Gr1 double on Daily News day a week earlier, the Drakenstein Stud team maintained their momentum in grand style
The victory made it a glorious Drakenstein owned and bred Silvano Gr1 double on a memorable afternoon, after Silver Darling had captured the Woolavington 2000 a half hour earlier
Justin Snaith picked up his fifth Woolavington 2000 and the opening Gr1 contest of the 2022 SA Champions Season
The 100th renewal of the 2400m R175 000 Lonsdale Stirrup Cup turned into a sprint for home, and probably blunted the prospects of the more fancied runners in the process
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
