Saluting The Winners
Winning isn’t everything – it is the only thing. This applies most especially on the festival occasions like J&B Met day. The Sporting Post salutes
29th January 2012
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Winning isn’t everything – it is the only thing. This applies most especially on the festival occasions like J&B Met day. The Sporting Post salutes
The big day looms. With less than twenty four hours to go to the 35th running of the Met under the J&B banner, the fascinating
If you are considering raising your hand and writing a cheque at the Sales in Cape Town this afternoon, maybe think again. Some serious wake-up action is urgently required in this industry. The debacle of the abandoned Clairwood meeting today is something that should just never have happened.
The track record of the fairer sex in the Met over the past half century is not particularly impressive on paper. Only five ladies have
Cape Town is the only place to be at the moment if you love thoroughbred racing.
We are only human and our personal experience and existing views sometimes dictate that unbiased opinion does not always come easily to those of us who work the daily grind of the politics, problems, but mostly pleasures of horseracing.
Communication, or the dire lack of it, was in the spotlight again this afternoon. Jockey Felix Coetzee was a drawcard on a rare visit to Kimberley, but after a fighting second in the fourth race, he disappeared.
Trainer Mike De Kock and jockey Anthony Delpech grabbed the last double at Scottsville on 22 January although their eyes will be on the bigger
A super quick solution to racing’s problems? The clash of the speed merchants at Kenilworth on Saturday was an unqualified success on many fronts, but
Val De Ra is Africa’s Champion Sprinter. She proved that today by winning the R600 000 Gr1 Betting World Cape Flying Championship in emphatic style at
A torturous heat wave cloaked the Western Cape in a hot blanket today and had punters in a sweat with a few form reversals and
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
