A ten-times champion jockey of France, Christophe Soumillon has been engaged to ride Mike de Kock’s Safe Passage in what will be the Belgian’s first Hollywoodbets Durban July ride
‘To think we’ve had to wait this long for a second Gr1 winner, that’s how hard this game is. Days like this is what keeps us going’- Peter Blyth
The Singapore Turf Club has confirmed that the Government has announced that about 120 hectares of land in Kranji on which the Singapore Racecourse is situated, will be handed back
It took eleven-time South African Champion Jockey Michael Roberts all of 15 rides in the big race before he broke the ice and partnered the David Ferraris-trained Super Quality
Veteran champion jockey Piere Strydom looks to have put his retirement on hold and is set for a serious bid to equal Anton Marcus’ ‘big five’ on 1 July
A new Bonus Structure and an innovative Pinhooking Programme to make the sale and acquisition of thoroughbred bloodstock more convenient
A relatively new National Horseracing Authority rule could save the bacon of top South African heavyweight and 2023 Gr1 L’Ormarins King’s Plate-winning rider Bernard Fayd’herbe
The South African horseracing industry brain drain continues with the news that Gr1-winning Vaal trainer Ashley Fortune will be calling it a day and relocating to Australia with her former SA Champion jockey husband, Andrew
Automatic qualifiers occupy the top five places on the 2023 Hollywoodbets Durban July Log
No champagne or rum for the affable Alec Laird afterwards: “I had a whisky daiquiri instead,” he quipped
All is not lost for the supporters of the early Hollywoodbets Durban July ante-post favourite Safe Passage after the son of Silvano put up an almost too-bad-to-be-true performance on Saturday
The classic has a long and proud history dating back to 1955 when it was run as the Cape of Good Hope Guineas
