Grant’s Ready To Splash Out!
At the age of 32, and with 18 Grade 1 winners under the belt, Cape-based jockey Grant van Niekerk is primed for his biggest season yet
1st August 2023
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At the age of 32, and with 18 Grade 1 winners under the belt, Cape-based jockey Grant van Niekerk is primed for his biggest season yet
Pat Cosgrave has left the UK to embark on a new challenge and will now call Saudi Arabia home as he continues his riding career oversees
Bernard Fayd’herbe hopes to end the current season with another Grade 1 victory on World Pool Gold Cup day when he partners Rascallion for the Vaughan Marshall team
‘Anton Marcus told me that the first thing is to treat the Hollywoodbets Durban July like any ordinary race. He said that I mustn’t let the occasion get to me…’
For 28 year old former SA champion apprentice Craig Zackey, who partners the ‘dark horse’ Dave The King in next weekend’s Hollywoodbets Durban July, the call-up last week as first choice rider to the Dean Kannemeyer stable is set to raise his game
He’s in third place on the national jockey log, and things could have been even better had he not lost the ride on current big race favourite See It Again due to a suspension
Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz was appointed CEO of JSE listed Grand Parade Investments – a company of which he is a majority owner – last month and could well complete the ‘holy trinity’ with negotiations under way to purchase KZN racing operator, Gold Circle
Close on a quarter of a century since taking the reins from his legendary Dad Peter, Saturday’s Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint winning trainer Dean Kannemeyer is going strong at 63
JP is set to ride one of the Justin Snaith runners in the Hollywoodbets Durban July
At the age of 54, five-times SA champion trainer Sean Tarry remains a top-level competitor
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
