The Wright Day At Turffontein!
A KwaZulu-Natal raider opened the bumper Turffontein feature afternoon on Saturday
30th October 2021
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A KwaZulu-Natal raider opened the bumper Turffontein feature afternoon on Saturday
A popular winner – described as ‘a top division horse’ by his rider – the Visionaire gelding Norton Sound continued his rise up the ladder
SA Champion trainer Justin Snaith saddled his second Listed Algoa Cup winner in four renewals of the Eastern Cape’s premier race
Candice Bass-Robinson saddled her first Gr3 Cape Classic winner and brightened her summer season classic prospects
Some days are diamonds and whichever way the Cape summer unfolds, Saturday 23 October 2021 will do down as a memorable one for a big team effort
Donald Mcdonald put together a gutsy performance under an enterprising ride by national log-leading jockey Warren Kennedy
Eight races are scheduled for the Vaal Classic course this afternoon
Eight races are carded on the polytrack at Fairview Racecourse this afternoon
A fairytale that brightened the gloom of 2020, a year that all of us would rather forget, looks set to continue.
Elusive Fort’s smart daughter Big Burn broke her stakes ice and went gun to tape to win the weather-delayed R200 000 Gr2 Joburg Spring F&M Challenge
Milnerton veteran Vaughan Marshall numbers Captain Al and Met winner One World amongst his quintet of Gr3 Matchem Stakes winners
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
The son of Twice Over has been gelded and will be aimed at the Betway Gr1 Summer Cup, the L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the WSB Cape Town Met
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
