Who’ll Stop The Rain?
Soft Falling Rain stamped himself as our leading juvenile male sprinter this season when he cruised clear to maintain his unblemished record and win the R500 000 Gr1 SA Nursery run over 1160m.
Soft Falling Rain stamped himself as our leading juvenile male sprinter this season when he cruised clear to maintain his unblemished record and win the R500 000 Gr1 SA Nursery run over 1160m.
Kings Temptress won the Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery like a filly who had done it all before. She was very Impressive indeed!
Ilha Bela, banked her biggest career cheque when winning the Gr2 SA Oaks
Gorongosa’s facile win in the Gr2 Gold Bowl brought the curtain down for the Mike De Kock- Wilgerbosdrift partnership
Even world champion trainers are not perfect. Mike De Kock conceded on Saturday at Turffontein that he surprised himself at times with his stubborness. He was referring to Welwitschia, who won the Gr2 Camelia Stakes in brilliant fashion.
Stamina doubts lie at the heart of unravelling the Gr2 SA Oaks puzzle. Only 4 of the thirteen 3yo fillies have tried the 2450m trip previously and then only with mixed success.
On paper that’s our simple conclusion that Cape champion 3yo Variety Club will win the Winter Guineas
Dean Kannemeyer’s smart 3yo Depardieu played the starring role in the R200 000 Gr3 Byerley Turk.
Eight highly rated runners contest the Gr3 Byerley Turk Stakes at Scottsville on Saturday
Europa Point a 5yo daughter of Rock of Gibraltar must be one of the hottest properties in South African racing at present
Flirtation brought an end to something of a lean spell when she landed the Colorado King Stakes over 2000m on the Turffontein standside course on Saturday.
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
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
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