Hollywoodbets Durban July ’23 – A Host Of Glorious Firsts!
The 127th renewal of Africa’s Greatest Race at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday produced a memorable occasion of firsts
3rd July 2023
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The 127th renewal of Africa’s Greatest Race at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday produced a memorable occasion of firsts
Turffontein trainer Erico Verdonese has been knocking hard for over 27 years to saddle his first Hollywoodbets Durban July runner
The MK’s Pride fairytale is back in print, and in the winner’s enclosure, after a fifteen month drought!
The highly anticipated final field for the R5 million spectacular was unveiled at the big-race sponsors’ Head Office in Umhlanga Rocks on Tuesday, and included no real surprises
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
One of the most striking aspects of the first session of last week’s CRS Premier Yearling Sale was the dominance of a handful of stallions
Dennis Yip will attempt to win a consecutive BMW Hong Kong Derby at Sha Tin on Sunday, 23 March, when he saddles Noisy Boy in the third and the final leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series
In Time Is Money this week we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights
High drama and some potentially dangerous race-riding cast a dark cloud over the inaugural running of the R5 million HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth
