Cheers Vince
Former jockey and SA Jockey Academy Riding Master Vince Curtis, who retires this month, was honoured for his close on half century of service to
7th December 2011
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Former jockey and SA Jockey Academy Riding Master Vince Curtis, who retires this month, was honoured for his close on half century of service to
The Princess reigns! Glen Kotzen’s star Victory Moon filly Princess Victoria turned chamber maid at Kenilworth on 3 December when she swept the floor with
Brilliant racehorses and the very best of their respective generations.The multiple Gr1 and Equus Award winners Princess Victoria and Val De Ra are likely to
Trainer Glen Kotzen admitted that he hasn’t had ‘one this good.’Hat-trick jockey Sean Cormack labelled her a ‘machine and superb athlete.’ These were just some
The KwaZulu-Natal horseracing community saluted their champions and achievers at an enjoyable 2010/11 KZN Racing Awards banquet held in the stately surrounds of the Durban
The Clairwood midweek meeting on 18 October will be a memorable milestone for Apprentice Girish Goomamy. The 18yo in his second year at the SA Jockey Academy booted home his first winner when riding a sensible race in the second event on Raging River for Charles Laird.
Small fields characterised the off season meeting at Clairwood on Sunday 14 August. Hardly the kind of horseracing to get too excited about but Anton
Anthony Delpech rode his 200th winner in the opener of the Greyville night meeting on 12 July. A hat-trick on the night meant that he edged four clear of a hounding Anton Marcus in the Jockey Championship title race…
Often a last chance saloon for battling horses from the major provinces, Eastern Cape racing is seen as something of a second-rate centre where the horses are average, the stakes okay and the racing community extremely friendly and hospitable. We may just have to revisit our perceptions now that Dennis Drier has had a run on the stakes cheques in the past two KZN meetings
Since getting his license in 1977 Dennis Drier has always been near the top of the Natal trainers log.
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
