Van Zyl’s Bold Nursery Prospect
KZN trainer Gavin van Zyl will be rating his SA Nursery prospects after the Bold Silvano colt Bold Eagle burst clear from his field
KZN trainer Gavin van Zyl will be rating his SA Nursery prospects after the Bold Silvano colt Bold Eagle burst clear from his field
Two smart Gr1 places at the end of last term gave notice that the good Silvano mare Bella Sonata was overdue her first stakes success
The national statistics for the 2016/17 season have been released and like an end-of-term school report, there are those whose star is in the ascendancy and those whose marks are disappointing
Gavin van Zyl and Team G Racing celebrate a decade of training and a milestone 600 career wins
Avontuur stallion Oratorio produced an early feature winner from his first SA crop when the fast improving Arianos Bagofgold finished well to win the Sentinel Stakes
The son of Captain Al is upping his game and his improved form curve suggests we may see him around for a few SA Champions Season features in the months ahead
The Board considered all the evidence and the mitigating factors, which included that Mr van Zyl had brought this matter to the Stipendiary Board’s attention some forty five minutes prior to the start of the race
Isca smashed the Scottsville 1000m course record in near perfect conditions on Sunday
I’ve always said one’s got to look at horses with current form in these big races. There are quite a few horses with current form and I think it’s going to be quite an open race.
Longstanding past SA champion breeders Summerhill Stud celebrated a feature exacta at Scottsville on Sunday when two sons of Kahal fought out the finish of the R120 000 Highland Night Cup
Lofty whispered: “I do have this one very nice specimen, but unfortunately he is by Lithuanian.”
This time last week we were looking forward to the 163rd renewal of the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations