13th March 2021
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Jockey Marco van Rensburg has a knack of producing the big race body blows
SA champion apprentice Craig Zackey looked in trouble when he drew his whip at the 250m marker on the Judpot speedster Little Genie. But the gutsy 4yo dug deep to register her second stakes success and a fifth straight win on the trot
Little Genie has not been beaten since shedding her maiden and was having her first outing on the sand surface. She is a gutsy girl on the up and looks an exciting prospect
Big day for Alyson Wright as Kochka wins the R600 000 Gr1 Premier’s Champion Stakes
The Milkwood Dispersal Sale, which takes place on Thursday morning, sees a number of exciting broodmares and broodmare prospects up for sale.
A filly and colt by Dynasty made top prices at the National 2yo sale where the average prices for colts and fillies were down, but median prices showed that the middle and lower end of the market recovered from last year’s drop.
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
