22nd February 2013
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The De Kock Jet swooped over Kenilworth to round off a superb day’s racing
A Cape Derby prospect won the Listed Sea Cottage Stakes in thrilling style at Turffontein on Sunday
Mike De Kock took the first major prize of the Cape’s Sizzling Summer Season with an unbeaten star filly
Jackodore came out flying fresh and made short work of the boys in the R300 000 Gr2 Merchants
The flying Trippi filly Franny held on to a narrow win in the R165 000 Gr3 Magnolia Handicap at Turffontein
The International Jockeys Challenge, now in it’s 5th year and growing, is currently the only international horseracing event in South Africa
It is a race that has dished up sires and international Group performers. The quality of the 2012 vintage of the current crop of two year old males will be stamped in history when the winner of the Gr1 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Horseshoe is crowned.
The Mike De Kock magic produced the internationally owned Tajmeel to win the Gr2 Betting World Oaks at Clairwood on Sunday. The champion trainer appears to have an endless resource of these classy staying females!
The wrong one for punters! Mike De Kock grabbed the first two cheques in the Gr1 Woolavington 2000. But the wrong way around for most punters with a 50-1 shot beating the odds-on favourite.
Trainer Mike De Kock appears to have a bottomless pit of promising youngsters. Vettel won the Highland Night Cup at Clairwood on Mother’s Day and gave notice that he could develop into a useful sort in time.
