De Kock Set To Take On The World
The Silvano colt Hawwaam staked his Cape Guineas claims in just over 97 seconds at Turffontein on Saturday
The Silvano colt Hawwaam staked his Cape Guineas claims in just over 97 seconds at Turffontein on Saturday
Gavin Lerena rounded off a Charity Mile feature double when timing his run to perfection on the Silvano mare Sylvan On Fire
Former SA Champion jockey Gavin Lerena will ride for the Mauritzfontein team as retained jockey
Gavin Lerena has some nice rides at Turffontein today and is hopeful of maintaining the extraordinary win strike-rate that he has achieved since his return from injury
Mike de Kock pulled an ace out of the hat at Turffontein on Saturday when the Irish-bred Cascapedia bounced back fresh after a six month rest
Confidence is a jockey’s major asset and with a 40% win strike-rate for the season, Lerena grabbed four winners on the afternoon, including this inspired ride on Prince Of Kahal
The dramatic late scratching of second favourite Regal Graduation at the start of the R150 000 Heritage 1200 (F&M) at Turffontein on Saturday, had many exotic players depending heavily on Schippers to deliver.
After months off, Gavin Lerena is looking forward to getting back into the saddle again
We are lucky. It was a bad fall and we are blessed he got off so lightly.
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