Joey’s Call To Account
Joey Ramsden got his Sun Met day off to a flying start when breaking the Snaith stranglehold on the Listed Summer Juvenile Stakes
28th January 2017
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Joey Ramsden got his Sun Met day off to a flying start when breaking the Snaith stranglehold on the Listed Summer Juvenile Stakes
Freelance Cape based jockey Richard Fourie is making a serious bid for a national title this term – and nobody is riding better than him in his hometown
The Mayfair Speculators owned William Longsword exploded to prominence at Kenilworth on Saturday to win the prestigious classic
Sixteen long years spanned trainer Vaughan Marshall’s patient pause between Gr1 Cape Guineas’ drinks
While he may have died in 1988, the great sire Roberto continues to make his mark throughout the world
Just a week after his son Search Party had gone end to end to win the Gr2 Cape Merchants down the Kenilworth straight, Captain Al celebrated a repeat performance when his daughter Jo’s Bond did all the donkey work into the teeth of the South Easter
Trainer Brett Crawford added some respectability to a competitive and tough day at the office at Kenilworth on Saturday
Confidence is a major weapon in any jockey’s arsenal. That was the fine line between all and nothing in a thrilling climax to Saturday’s Graham Beck Stakes
Vaughan Marshall’s exciting Captain Al colt Always In Charge was an impressive winner of a high-quality Graduation Plate at Kenilworth on Tuesday
Despite having been around racing all of his life, could we really blame newly licenced trainer Gareth van Zyl for believing that this is an easy game?
It has been some time since the Plattner Racing Team have had a Gr1 horse in their fleet but the impressive Captain’s Flame looks the one to carry the Summer Of Champions flag for the West Coast operation
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
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
