With a buzzing enthusiastic crowd, the delicious aroma of expert potjiekos chefs at work and the sun blazing down, Durbanville was a happy place for Cape racing fans on Saturday
The gallant 7yo Captain America bid his legion of fans a fond farewell as he made it a winning swansong at Greyville on Saturday with a terrific display of power galloping
Cape Guineas prospect One World ran out the easiest winner of the R200 000 Listed Langerman we have seen in many a year
It was pleasing to see the famous brown and white Beck family silks back in the winner’s enclosure again on a major day
Just imagine. You are holding one of a few tickets going into the final leg of the bumper R13 million July Day Pick 6. The lifechanger hinges on your banker, Snowdance…
The Mike de Kock-trained Best Kept Secret, a SA sales record-holder as a yearling, was knocked down to her existing part-owners and leading breeders Maine Chance Farms
Champion racehorse Buckpasser left behind a slew of outstanding broodmare daughters – despite dying relatively young at the age of 15
Storm Cat is ancestor of both the 2018 US Triple Crown winner Justify (Scat Daddy) and Saturday’s Gr1 Ubet Stradbroke Handicap hero Santa Ana Lane
The long-striding Captain Al colt Undercover Agent gave part-owner Greg Bortz and SA log-leading champion apprentice Lyle Hewitson their respective first Gr1 victories
The Milnerton-based combination of Vaughan Marshall and MJ Byleveld struck with their major SA Champions Season score of the current term
Despite a blank day at Scottsville, Joey Ramsden maintained his purple patch of feature form at home when he saddled a Listed feature double at a sunny Kenilworth
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
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
