Marcus Melts The Star
Justin Snaith’s Cape Summer Season dual Gr1 winner Snowdance found one too good for her on an action-packed Friday evening at Greyville
4th May 2018
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Justin Snaith’s Cape Summer Season dual Gr1 winner Snowdance found one too good for her on an action-packed Friday evening at Greyville
The old firm of Sean Tarry and recently returned from injury S’manga Khumalo got the 2018 Classic Day feature programme under way
I’m so glad I managed to capture him. To be part of that and so much history – it was a good feeling.
Craig Zackey was another jockey at Turffontein on Saturday to take advantage of a Weichong Marwing feature substitute riding opportunity
The Captain Al colt Undercover Agent banked ten times his purchase price in just over 100 seconds at Kenilworth on Saturday in a race worth more in monetary terms than the Sun Met itself
New Cape racing sensation Snowdance was the best bet on the Sun Met card and she duly won in good style – despite hitting the front early
Soldier sprinter Sergeant Hardy breaks new ground with his first Gr1 win
Justin Snaith provided the Drakenstein Stud team with a welcome fillip in advance of the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Festival Of Racing this weekend
A number of landmarks were achieved by South African stallions and broodmares in 2017
It is business as usual for Klawervlei Stud following the resignation of beleaguered businessman and thoroughbred owner-and-breeder Markus Jooste
Justin Snaith’s perpetual motion machine Sergeant Hardy came out firing on all cylinders to go from gun to tape
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
