With the weather enforced switch of racing from turf to the polytrack, the Corne Spies-trained Listed KZN Stakes winner Sarve proved too strong for her opposition in the R150 000 Listed Milkwood Stakes at Fairview on Friday
“The Vaal sand is not a racetrack and I can’t imagine there is a worse track anywhere else on earth,” says multiple champion jockey Piere Strydom
After the disappointing news about the injury of Triple Crown star Louis The King, trainer Geoff Woodruff had plenty to smile about when his magnificent grey Jet Master filly Touch The Sky came back to best to clinch the honours in sensational style
While he feels he might be at a 3kg to 4kg weight disadvantage with Khumalo, the fact that Lerena hasn’t won a Champion Jockey title yet could make him even more determined. “I came very close in 2012, missing out on the title by one win, this would be my first,” said Lerena
One could sense the victory of Arcetri Pink in the eight race at Turffontein on Saturday was a bittersweet moment for the Geoff Woodruff stable
It doesn’t get much more exciting for South African racing enthusiasts than what we are being treated to in Dubai on Super Saturday!
At the line only 0.15 of a length separated the first three horses and full marks to Brendon McNaughton for keeping his cool when he had both Karl Zechner and Denicious Smith breathing fire right behind him
With a magic milestone of 5000 winners only weeks away, Piere Strydom rode a cracking double at the Vaal on Tuesday and punters will be watching his 9 hometown rides at Fairview this Sunday with interest
Anybody who earns a living out of this game and has the courage to stand up and be counted is to be applauded and one can only conclude that Gavin Lerena is not the only man who holds the opinion that the track is in an unacceptable condition
Gutsy speed showing by talented Jade Bay to win the R250 000 Gr3 Lebelo Sprint
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
