17th November 2020
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Four good rides at Greyville today can see the top rider entrench his log position
After Aldo Domeyer’s second set of 6 wins on a card, we had some fun with numbers to see which of our other jockeys have done it
On 12 April 1988 a United Airlines charter flight crashed outside the Free State town of Hennenman, claiming the lives of all on board. We remember those we lost.
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
“It’s been a tough time. I’ve been slated and called everything in the book. I’ve just had to keep my chin up and carry on digging…” says Mike Robinson
“We could feel the disappointment when people got knocked out of the exotics and realised there is a need for a product that keeps people involved throughout the day”
SA jockeys’ success in Hong Kong – “probably only the first few chapters of a very successful and colourful ongoing novel”
1993 blows out with Volume 4 of the Racing Record, a new chairman for Durban Turf Club and a proposal to merge Milnerton and Kenilworth approved unopposed. A Little Ballerina wins the Cape Guineas, Marla causes an upset in the Sceptre Stakes and Jean Heming is shot in a vicious attack. TAB Transvaal introduces the Superfecta and Take A Walk wins the Queen’s Plate for David Payne, pushing him R1 million ahead of his nearest rival on the trainers’ log.
Abroad, absent-minded jockey Desormeaux costs Kotashaan the Japan Cup, Basil Marcus extends his lead on the Hong Kong jockey table by winning the first leg of the Hong Kong Triple Crown aboard River Verdon, while Robbie Fradd is crowned Mauritius champion jockey. Coolmore announce that Sadler’s Wells stud fee has increased to IR100.000 guineas. The British Jockey Association launches the first Jockey Championship and Wolverhampton stages the first race meeting under lights.
A look back at horse racing history from South Africa and abroad, going back 20 years ago to June 1993
Recent overseas results proved again that there are few better judges of horseflesh in this game than former champion jockey Basil Marcus.
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
