A lifetime horseracing administrator and one-time CEO of Turffontein Racecourse, the low-profile Merle Parker is known to anybody who has been in the game for five minutes as an old school pillar of reliability
‘At one stage, I even grew my hair out to try and look like the late INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence! That wasn’t my best moment in life, but one lives and learns!’
Already an industry pacesetter after becoming the first member of the fairer sex to be crowned SA Champion Apprentice Jockey last season, Rachel Venniker ticked another item off on her professional bucket list
On the eve of writing his final matriculation exam, 18 year old Winning Form-sponsored Apprentice Keratile Katjedi joined the sparsely populated ranks of 4kg-claimers to ride a four-timer at a racemeeting
With the support of her champion jockey husband and two beautiful children, Vikki Badenhorst is ready for a new challenge at the age of 38
It was on the well-worn school to home circuit that he was to bump into a stranger who was to change his world forever…
There are not too many young jockeys that have bounced back from a disrupted apprenticeship and an injury-enforced four year absence from the saddle
Seemingly always destined to become a Hong Kong trainer, Pierre Ng will fulfil a cherished ambition this Sunday when he saddles eight runners at Sha Tin
The Hollywoodbets Greyville night meeting of 2 September will forever be etched in the memory of Wendy Whitehead, for never in her wildest dreams did the Summerveld trainer guess that she would saddle four winners on the card!
Women’s month has come and gone, but there is no denying the fairer sex talent in the riding ranks
While he has never fully recovered from the blow of having the rug literally pulled from under his well-worn vellies, 65 year old Hollywoodbets-sponsored Fairview trainer Cliffie Miller has maintained his bearded smile and made the most of a bad situation
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
