A collection of opinions and thoughts on all aspects of horse racing from around the world.
The 2011 Vodacom Durban July turned into a celebration for Mike De kock and Anthony Delpech for the second year running. Their star filly Igugu silenced her detractors and left a trail of broken dreams and dented egos in her wake…
Arlington on Friday 1 July resembled something of a war zone with the betting public dashing for cover as their July Day budgets took an advance hammering with awful results. But Punters have enjoyed quite a fortnight with Saftote commendably introducing a few innovative touches…
Cape racing in winter is a little like the Monaco Royal Wedding. One can’t be quite sure that it is actually going to happen. And
He has trained the winner of every Group race in South Africa and has five runners, including the favourite Igugu, in Saturday’s Vodacom Durban July.
A minefield for punters at Kimberley on Monday 27 June. Do trainers do punters any favours when chasing horses all over the countryside? Beaten favourite Arctic Jet is a case in point.
Group races should be decided on the track and not the Stipes boardroom. The Gr2 Gold Circle Derby has seen its stake plummet from R1 million in the nineties to a third of that today and it lost a lot more fizz with a bitter decision on Sunday 26 June. Hard luck to the Scotts, Keith Steinberg and Dynasty!
A first Cape winner for an up-n-coming PE trainer at Kenilworth and a great Winter Derby success for Greg Ennion. Then there was that little matter of Uncle Tommy at the start of the fifth. Plenty of action!
July Gallops – Timekeeping is an art and a science. A couple of officials casually waving flags at the 800m and 400m marker, while the timekeeper sits with a stop-watch at a distance means that the published times could well be a second or two out.
The Marcus Delpech duel got tighter at the top of the jockey log with Marcus getting another one back – the scores now 184 – 175 with Delpech holding the edge!
The day didn’t start well for Anton Marcus or the backers of favourites, when the 5-10 shot Charro Negro somehow conspired to get himself beaten by drifting from the inside to the outside rail on Monday 20 June at Scottsville.
There are plenty of injustices and imbalances in this industry but this statistical anomaly takes the cake. A wise man once said that one should never invest in anything that eats while you sleep, and the punch-drunk Capetonians must be…
SA Champion trainer and big race title-holder Justin Snaith has nine entries in the early stages of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met class of 2025 that was unveiled earlier today
