Justin Leaves It Late
It is a rare Met Day when Justin Snaith has to wait nine feature races to lift a trophy
30th January 2017
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It is a rare Met Day when Justin Snaith has to wait nine feature races to lift a trophy
Jockey Aldo Domeyer’s perfect six at Kenilworth last week was not a record for number of winners ridden on a day in South Africa
Jockey Aldo Domeyer joined an elite club at Kenilworth on Wednesday, booting home 6 winners from his six engagements
Plattner Racing steps out Ngaga, promising half-sister to SA Horse Of The Year, Igugu
A stellar field of 16 jockeys assemble in the annual Jockeys’ Chase at Durbanville
The ‘unfashionably bred’ filly that Gill Drier picked out but that nobody really wanted at sale is sure setting the tracks alight
Captain’s Flame stamped herself as one of the undiscovered gems of the Cape’s 3yo filly contingent this season
With a filly having won the only Gr1 race for 2yo males this term, the chase for champion status in that category remains wide open
Jockey Aldo Domeyer got the ball rolling on his treble feature weekend winning streak at Fairview on Friday when he rode a powerful finish to get Solana home
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
