The six-year-old Sea The Stars horse joins Sagaro (1975, 1976, 1977) as a triple Gold Cup winner with only four-time scorer Yeats (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) having won the two and a half mile staying showpiece more
The Italian rider completed his 449/1 four-timer with a dramatic victory aboard the John Gosden-trained Stradivarius
William Milkovitch has done his homework and provides his expert view of the card – he is going with the field in the Gold Cup and hoping Humpty Dumpty comes rolling home!
There was plenty of local interest in Sea The Stars son Stradivarius’ victory in Thursday’s Gr1 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot
Hermoso Mundo made things easy for the Equus Awards panel when he ticked the right box to be crowned SA Champion stayer
The tote has also introduced a new bet for the weekend called the “Festival Cup Double” which they will launch with an injection of R100 000.
If you truly love horseracing you need to watch this race
Avontuur-sponsored newly crowned KZN champion jockey Anthony Delpech and multiple champion trainer Mike De Kock got their 2015/16 racing season off to a flying start when the prepped-to-the-minute Mogok gelding Wild One stayed on best of all
The KZN rain gods may well have thrown horseracing a curved ball, with Super Saturday now kickstarting our brand new season on Saturday – but life goes on!
‘Frankly, I think the decision to postpone is a blessing in disguise and the fact that it has been made in good time, means that the inevitable inconveniences can be kept to a minimum’
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
Leading South African-based owners Hollywood Racing have broken new ground with the acquisition of five yearlings during the Book 1 session at Karaka this week
