Newsflash – Durbanville Abandoned
Welcome rains in Cape lead to abandonment of today’s meeting
27th June 2018
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Welcome rains in Cape lead to abandonment of today’s meeting
The National Horseracing Authority and the operators, through their racecourse managers, are going to have to up their game when it comes to preparation and inspection of our tracks
In my experience it does not take skill to criticise and it does not take a talent to be mean. So, where do we go from here and what is the answer to this situation?
The first race at Durbanville is off at 13h00 – it is also the Bipot opener. And Jono Snaith sounds quite bullish about their Querari first timer!
Turffontein is off at 12h30, while the Durbanville meet gets under way at 13h50
Durbanville is our local track and we love it. It’s fun, it’s friendly, it’s easily accessible and what better way to introduce people to racing right on their own doorstep?
One of the attractions of Durbanville is that you always bump into old friends and Saturday was no exception.
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
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
