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Sabine Plattner – powerful West Coast string
“I still rate Grant highly but he and I didn’t really gel as a team in the way we should, and his contract came to an end at the end of last season. At the moment we are freelancing but the job is open and we are looking,” trainer Andre Nel told Gold Circle journalist Michael Clower.
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The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
The late, great Dynasty has already more than made his presence felt in the Gold Cup
Ascot’s premier midsummer showpiece, the prestigious King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes is run at Ascot today
These are the days that those of us who adore the sport of horseracing look forward to with child-like excitement
