Random Thoughts

A collection of opinions and thoughts on all aspects of horse racing from around the world.

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

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BANANA REPUBLIC!

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.

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Sugar and Spice?

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

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Can Golden Horses save us?

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.

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Marco and Miller Make Magic

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.

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A Sleepy Scottsville Sunday

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

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She’s Just Too V A R S T!

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

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