LANCE BENSON: Prestige, ego or a career booster? It definitely is not the money! What else could really be motivating established successful sportsmen like Anthony Delpech and Anton Marcus to be sacrificing their families and comfortable lifestyles for cramped aircraft seats and the personal injury risks and boredom that go with racing in our backwaters?
Anthony Delpech rode his 200th winner in the opener of the Greyville night meeting on 12 July. A hat-trick on the night meant that he edged four clear of a hounding Anton Marcus in the Jockey Championship title race…
Jockey Anthony Delpech a ‘little tired’? Is the stress starting to count after a tough season and will this give the cucumber-cool Anton Marcus a chance to pounce and cut back the deficit? This could be a watershed week and a turning point in the jockey championship puzzle…
Jockey Robbie Fradd made a winning return to race riding at Scottsville on 5 July after a three month absence from the saddle. The 46
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…
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.
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.
They got it all wrong here and burnt their fingers. Punters somehow let the powerful Mike De Kock and Anthony Delpech combination run free in the eighth race at Turffontein on Youth Day 16 June
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
