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The Secrets Of Speed
The R500 000 Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship trophy looks likely to remain displayed within the shadows of Table Mountain
The R500 000 Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship trophy looks likely to remain displayed within the shadows of Table Mountain
Despite the champion Variety Club’s absence, an entertaining contest is likely at Kenilworth on Sunday where thirteen three year olds turn out for the R184 000 Gr3 Tekkie Town Winter Classic.
In a dramatic finish to the running of the $325 000 Gr2 Aushorse Golden Horseshoe in Singapore last Friday, South African jockey Greg Cheyne came within a head of winning the feature on first-timer Easy Man for trainer Leslie Khoo.
The much anticipated International Weekend in Singapore gets underway on Friday night with a mixed-track meeting that includes the Group 1 Singapore Guineas.
The visiting Western Cape trainers have an outstanding record in this race with Ramsden and Snaith having won it twice each since 2005. Kotzen and Crawford make up the impressive six from-seven record with a win apiece.
A race for the connoisseur, this level weights contest for 3yo colts is usually won by a top sort.
Depardieu sidesteps the KRA Guineas and attempts to become the first three year old since Imbongi in 2008 to win the R300 000 Gr2 WFA Drill Hall Stakes.
With both the Guineas and the Drill Hall Stakes topping the bill on Saturday the Natal season gets off to a flying start.
Two top three year olds in Pomodoro and Royal Bencher produced the thrills in a grandstand finish to the final leg of the Sascoc Triple Crown.
Europa Point continues to up her game as she climbs the ladder to fame and fortune.
The gates flashed open and Shea Shea was gone. But definitely not forgotten.
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