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On 25 June 2022 – a lifechanging one, in hindsight – the brave idealist set off for Fresnaye
14th February 2024
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On 25 June 2022 – a lifechanging one, in hindsight – the brave idealist set off for Fresnaye
South Africa’s all-time leading international ambassador and eight-times national champion conditioner boasts the distinction of saddling a SA record 135 Gr1 winners and counting
After an impressive last to first victory at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth in Saturday’s traditional Derby trial, Dean Kannemeyer has confirmed that Green With Envy is on track for a tilt at the SplashOut Gr1 Cape Derby
On Saturday 6 January, his farrier team, Miller Forge and Horseshoeing, provided his birthday present by shoeing all nine winners at the prestigious L’Ormarins King’s Plate meeting
The Zimbabwe-born jock becomes the third UK-based rider after Frankie Dettori and Ryan Moore in recent years to add an international flavour to Met day
This week we bumped into something of a forgotten man of the racehorse training ranks
She has ridden 211 winners, secured two SA champion apprentice titles, and has a Gr2 Gauteng Guineas on Eye Of The Prophet under the belt – not bad for a rosy cheeked horse-crazy teenager who had to practically kick down doors to get a chance to realise her dream of becoming a jockey!
The name of Kayleigh Oakes’ mount in Saturday’s Okapi Ladies International at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth is not lost on her
For almost as long as he can remember, David Eustace has craved an opportunity to train in Hong Kong
A Transkei-born horseman who started out as a Groom will soon find himself training horses out of Futura Park in the Cape alongside big-hitting neighbours Justin Snaith and Brett Crawford
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
It’s time for our racing regulators to accept and understand that they are part of the game, and not outside of it, above it, or bigger than it
