Meet and find out more about the Reeves Racing Team!
Experience a day in the life of one of South African horseracing’s most popular family operations.
Just for a bit of background, Paul Reeves hails from the UK, and immigrated to South Africa with his family at the age of four.
He developed an early interest in horses and successfully applied to the SA Jockey Academy, graduating alongside jockeys like Gerrit Basson, Alan Levy, Ian Hemingway, Glyn Schofield and Andrew Fortune.
Originally indentured to the Bobby Schutt yard, Paul saw out his time with Colin Burroughs, before heading to Johannesburg to ply his trade.
After 6 years in Joburg, which he describes as a ‘good period in his life’, he returned to Cape Town with his wife, Charlmain and two daughters, Stacey and Claudia. In 1999, a head-on collision on Milnerton’s cinder track early one morning brought his career to an abrupt halt.
Fortunately, he escaped the incident with his life, if not his riding career and chose to pursue a different career path in the UK.
He spent 3 years working for Newsells Park Stud, pre-training horses for the likes of Sir Michael Stoute, Mark Johnson and Marco Botti and counts himself lucky to have handled horses like Gitano Hernando (currently doing stud duty at The Alchemy in Robertson) and Strawberrydaiquiri.
The family came back to South Africa and Paul sat for his trainer’s exam in 2009, starting out at the Philippi training centre.
With the green and white Reeves Racing sign firmly affixed to the wall at their Milnerton training base, they now are well established on the other side of the Peninsula.
Sit back and enjoy the show!
Please follow them on https://instagram.com/reeves_racing01?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/reevesracing01?mibextid=9R9pXO
