The owners of Highveld raider Bavarian Beauty, favourite for Saturday’s R7,5 million Cape Racing Gold Rush, have issued a media release to allay rumours doing the rounds on social media
Pacaya carries the Trippi flag in Saturday’s World Sports Betting Cape Town Met as bloodstock expert Robin Bruss continues with part 2 of the story of a champion and the Search for Greatness
In 1874, the members of the South African Turf Club chose a site on the farm Kenilworth for the construction of a new racecourse – which means that next year the foundation of the oldest racetrack in South Africa will celebrate 150 years
The Klawervlei bred William Longsword gelding Sakhala Is’Cathulo, whose name appropriately means ‘the game is on’, grabbed the limelight at a relatively low-key Turffontein racemeeting on Thursday
The countdown has begun to one of the crown jewels on the South African racing calendar
Thirteen runners from eight different stables, including two Highveld raiders and a solitary KZN representative, will contest the 162nd renewal of the big race
Star 4yo Charles Dickens has been retired and will take up stud duties at his place of birth, Drakenstein Stud from the 2024 season
The countdown to the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met raceday, a World Pool event, to be held at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on 27 January, continued on Friday
When Charles Dickens won the 163rd renewal of the L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate on Saturday it was the 187th Stakes Win and 23rd Gr1 win for Drakenstein’s famous Champion Foundation Sire Trippi (USA)
Justin Snaith’s impressive Anthonij Rupert Wine Gr2 Premier Trophy winner Mucho Dinero was the only supplementary entry on Monday
The R2 million L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate became the Charles Dickens show as the colt’s electrifying late burst from midfield made it three wins from four renewals for his champion sire Trippi
After dedicating herself fully to the role for four challenging years, the increasing demands on her time and personal life have led her to reassess her career direction
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
