Profiles

He’s No Menace!

A first Vodacom Durban July ride or a 21st birthday celebration? That could be the poser facing 20 year old apprentice Denis Schwarz on 6

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Owning The World

“We are ‘quietly hopeful’ rather than ‘quietly confident’. There is a subtle difference you know,” laughed Marsh as he chatted to the Sporting Post from the Maldives before flying out for the four hour flight to Dubai on Tuesday evening.

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He’s Raring To Get Back!

Sunday 3 June 2018 feels like a bizarre freak blur nine months down the line as the top jockey chats to the Sporting Post from his home at Waterfall Country Village

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Stars Of The Summer

The Drakenstein Stud team can look back on a Cape Summer Season with pride and a sense of outstanding achievement as leaders of a royal pack.

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2000 Magic Moments

On Sunday, the 50 year old Sean Gerard Tarry joined a select group of professionals to saddle 2000 winners

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Let’s Give The Jockeys A Break!

The recent public criticism of race riding has evoked an emotional response from the wife of a hardworking middle of the road jockey who tragically died in an accident in 2007

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Family Counts

With a wedding on the horizon and a first baby daughter on the way in four months, the unassuming Warren Kennedy has hit a golden vein of form at the right moment in his professional career

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When Opportunity Knocks…

The opportunity to ride in the Derby in the world famous blue and white silks of Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum for multiple champion

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Some Like It Hot!

The appointment of Co-Chairmen of Kenilworth Racing in December was seen as the first step towards healing fractured relationships and rebuilding the foundations of what really should be the destination of choice for anybody looking to enjoy the very best of all racing worlds on the African continent

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