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 number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
