The Gauteng riding ranks have been bolstered with the news that former SA Champion Apprentice and Mauritian Champion Jockey Derreck ‘DD’ David will return to the land of his birth
Going from his best ever season, when lifting his third SA title with 263 winners last term, and following a dreadful accident just two months ago, Lyle is not looking back
The great joy for Judy and the Kotzen family is that Granny rode winners in the Cape Hunt meetings 60 years ago in the very same silks worn in 2022 by the gallant Han Solo!
Like a test batsman who has escaped the nervous ‘noughties’, Turffontein trainer Billy ‘The Kid’ Ruiters is hopeful that his icebreaking winner at the Vaal on 27 January will now set the foundation for his first century
Another former Met winning owner from similarly humble beginnings reflects on his own joyous day in the same race a decade earlier.
Kommetdieding may be aimed at the Premiers Challenge on the Highveld on 30 April
Everybody wants to win the coveted trophy. But they are going to have to literally be on their A plus game to beat hometown hero, Kommetdieding!
Michele Wing’s top-class feature race productions in advance of the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Festival have set a new benchmark in these trying times
His snap cutaway interviews on Tellytrack with the runner-up jockeys in the immediate aftermath of each race was the kind of drama and authenticity that horseracing television has been sorely lacking
The next chapter in a proud and satisfying mini fairytale for Milnerton trainer Piet Botha and his loyal owners, Barry Nel and Ron Caris
It’s been a mildly turbulent start for Fundi Sithebe, the first Chief Executive Officer of 4Racing
Get the full story as told by those who watched every stride, as well as Richard Fourie’s personal insights of the season in his own words
The seven-time Hong Kong Champion Jockey reached the 1814-win milestone with a double at the city circuit to edge past the long-standing mark of 1813 wins set by the legendary Douglas Whyte
A dual Grade 1 winner and South Africa’s highest rated racehorse, the Vaughan Marshall trained One Stripe will campaign in a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
