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Gimme Turns Up The Heat
The unusual midweek feature double billing at the Southern Suburbs venue played out in glorious winter sunshine conditions, and what the field sizes lacked for in numbers, they more than made up for in quality
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 unusual midweek feature double billing at the Southern Suburbs venue played out in glorious winter sunshine conditions, and what the field sizes lacked for in numbers, they more than made up for in quality
Vaal trainer Corne Spies rekindled memories of his Golden Horse Sprint day glory years of earlier this century at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Sunday
Maine Chance Farms’ Gr1 winning sire Querari, South Africa’s Leading Sire of 2yo’s in 2018/19, produced his third consecutive Listed Lady’s Slipper Stakes winner
Just eight days after SA Triple Tiara champion War Of Athena’s Gr1 Woolavington 2000 victory, Gauteng trainer Paul Matchett and his high-riding owners Roy Wentzel and Dr Rose Waterman-Wentzel clinched another top level success
Tyrone Zackey’s Johnny Hero may well have forced his way into the 2021 Vodacom Durban July picture with a well taken victory
The Allan Robertson Championship, traditionally the first grade 1 race for 2yo’s in the South African season was owned by trainer Sean Tarry on Sunday
The Milnerton veteran continued with one of his most memorable SA Champions Seasons in recent times
The daughter of Act Of War again made a mockery of her R30 000 price tag, when changing gears late to repel a cheeky but vain late challenge from Adam Marcus’ top galloper Princess Calla
On an afternoon that marked the opening Gr1 contests of the 2021 SA Champions Season, and the inaugural Hong Kong World Pools in South Africa, Vaughan Marshall celebrated a plan come together
Milnerton trainer Vaughan Marshall could well make it an overdue date in the hallowed winner’s enclosure at Hollywoodbets Greyville on 3 July
Varsfontein Stud’s leading sire Gimmethegreenlight’s great season continued
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