The Windrush gelding Roman Carnival is one of the fastest improving horses in training and set himself up for a major paydate on the Vaal sand at the end of September, when skating home an easy winner of Saturday’s R250 000 Gr3 August Stakes
Trainer Louis Goosen could make it two from two in the Super Supreme Series when he teams up with jockey Piere Strydom and Doing It For Dan in today’s R250 000 Gr3 August Stakes run on the Vaal sand 1200m
The reformed genius of the Brazillian-bred Anger took his next step to the Emerald Cup with a gutsy and impressive power galloping performance at the Vaal on Saturday
Sand racing is either your cuppa or it isn’t. The Vaal sand surface has also done itself no marketing favours after building a notorious reputation in recent times for being a roulette wheel where the draw and your horse’s position out of the stalls often counts for more than genuine ability
A sneak Emerald Cup preview is promised when a quality field goes to post for Saturday’s Gr3 August Stakes
A one-way ticket to Africa’s richest race on sand was earned at the Vaal by the Gr3 August Stakes winner Across The Ice. Winning jockey Robbie Fradd also made it a grand haul of five winning rides on the afternoon
The national focus switches to the Vaal sand track this weekend with the running of the R200 000 Gr3 August Stakes on Saturday.
Sean Tarry is making a habit of saddling Graded Stakes “exactas.” Less than a month after he sent out Aslan and Kolkata to occupy the first two places in the Gr 1 Canon Gold Cup, the Randjesfontein-based trainer was at it again when The Mouseketeer held off stable companion Across The Ice to win the August Stakes over 1200m on the Vaal sand last Saturday.
Coinciding with the coming of spring is the best of South Africa’s sand racing….
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
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
