Hawkins: Jumping For Joy
With eight Gold Cup winners to his name, Felix Coetzee holds the title of our best ever rider in this premier staying event.
23rd July 2014
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With eight Gold Cup winners to his name, Felix Coetzee holds the title of our best ever rider in this premier staying event.
If it could be possible, I think that second July win was even better than the first.
The Australian bred gelding is not running in the Vodacom Durban July but may get his big chance in the Champions Cup on Super Saturday. Best of the July hopefuls was Sean Tarry’s Halve The Deficit, who did everything but win
“There’s R2 million and Gr1 at stake – there’s no holding back,” says Woodruff. Our photography team paid the yard a visit to snap all the big guns.
This fellow looks something very special. A longstriding handsome son of Jet Master, he won this Gr1 contest with a stamp of authority and Gold Circle will be hoping that he heads Durban way for a tilt at the riches of Champions Season
South African horseracing in a frenzy with Louis The King crowned Triple Crown Champion as he gallops his way into our hearts and history books with a scintillating and gutsy performance to win the R2 million Gr1 SA Derby. What a day!
“He sits at the back, he looks after himself and he doesn’t pull. Robbie has felt, even as far back as the Guineas, that he wants further. That may or may not be correct, but he feels very confident.” Geoff Woodruff shares his thoughts on his Champions Day card
“People who’ve watched him race can make up their own minds. He sits at the back, he looks after himself and he doesn’t pull. Robbie has felt, even as far back as the Guineas, that he wants further. That may or may not be correct, but he feels very confident.”
Desert duels, Hong Kong cups and Triple Crown contenders – last weekend had it all. And proved yet again, that when the chips are down, it’s tough to beat ‘brand South Africa!’
Will trainer Geoff Woodruff and jockey Robbie Fradd rewrite the record books as the countdown to Classic Day continues?
Woodruff and Fradd celebrate great day at Turffontein as Australian bred Arcetri Pink wins the first leg of the Wilgerbosdrift Triple Tiara
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
