300 Up For Hollywood Syndicate
With two consecutive stakes victories to her name, Sean Tarry’s beautifully-bred Full Velocity looks to have booked herself a berth in next month’s Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint.
1st May 2022
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With two consecutive stakes victories to her name, Sean Tarry’s beautifully-bred Full Velocity looks to have booked herself a berth in next month’s Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint.
In one of the biggest Gr1 upset results in recent seasons, the Vercingetorix gelding Astrix, one of twelve Hollywoodbets Durban July entries in the field, kept going gallantly to record his maiden stakes victory
In the same month that he sired Aragosta to win the WSB Gr1 SA Derby over 2450m, Ridgemont Highlands stallion Rafeef underscored his enormous versatility when his 3yo son Master Archie, SA racing’s newest equine millionaire, stormed to victory
A smart call to skip the SA Nursery on Champions Day at Turffontein and go the Gr3 Godolphin Barb Stakes route at Hollywoodbets Scottsville with the Querari gelding Prophet, could prove to be a defining moment
A half-brother to champion juvenile sire Querari, Quasillo (Sea The Stars) found himself in the news at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Sunday
Peter Muscutt’s promising 3yo Isivunguvungu suggested he could be one for the notebook with an eyecatching victory
In a smart move to avoid his top 2yo fillies clashing in the earlier feature, Paul Peter decided to take on the boys with a 2,5kg sex allowance. It was a move that paid off
After winning her first Gr1 race just a week earlier, Vaal trainer Ashley Fortune was on the mark again with her maiden Gr2 at Turffontein on Saturday
The opening feature of the Highveld Season’s pinnacle day went according to plan and produced a popular victory for the Koos Nkale and Hyperpaint Syndicate owned daughter of Flower Alley
Vaal trainer Ashley Fortune struck gold at Turffontein on Saturday when her former Cape-based 4yo Princess Calla won the R1 250 000 HSH Princess Charlene Gr1 Empress Club Stakes
Price is no yardstick, but Gem King cost more than Pocket Power and Katak combined
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
