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Cape visitor Cigar Boy arrives in PE with something of a reputation for Friday’s Listed Racing Association Stakes
21st November 2012
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Cape visitor Cigar Boy arrives in PE with something of a reputation for Friday’s Listed Racing Association Stakes
The Cape raiders look the part to make it three straight wins in Sunday’s Gr3 Algoa Cup at Fairview.
The East Cape Festival of Racing scheduled for this weekend has been postponed to Friday, 23 November and Sunday, 25 November
LANCE BENSON: In the current local climate of pessimism and doom and gloom, the United Kingdom and Ireland’s most watched dedicated racing channel is forecast to have a record year in 2012
A quiet weekend on the home front with an MR 104 Handicap over 1200m at Fairview on Friday offering an intriguing contest with some rather well-tried but quality sorts staking their claims.
The R120 000 Listed Jockey Club Stakes to be run over 2000m at Fairview on Friday has attracted a maximum field of sixteen, split evenly between the locals and raiding Capetonians.
The installation of a Polytrack synthetic racetrack on the inside of the existing turf circuit at Fairview Racecourse in Port Elizabeth is set to begin within a few weeks and should take about eight months to complete.
Genuine need or patent greed? The moral and commercial fisticuffs that characterise the debate over whether we really need horseracing and gambling on one of
Fairview racing was abandoned on 5 August. If you didn’t know that, tell somebody who cares. Hours after the decision, there is not a solitary word of information on any of the recognised horseracing operator or totalisator websites. Clueless or just plain incompetence? It goes deeper we think.
The Western Cape visitors enjoyed mixed fortunes at Fairview on Friday. Justin Snaith’s smart Captain Al filly Ocean’s Swift won the Listed Lady’s Slipper over 1400m but the Listed PE Gold Cup run over 3600m was an entirely different story
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
