“Education? What’s that? I was streetwise. That’s it. A powerful and hugely successful businessman, Mr Beck always used to joke that his life was being ruled by a guy with a Standard 1 education!”
The Kenilworth meeting this Saturday honours one of South African horseracing’s great owners, breeders and benefactors of recent times.
There are few men that have left a larger impression on horseracing and life than the late Graham Beck. The Gr2 Graham Beck Memorial Sceptre Stakes will feature on a raceday at Kenilworth in January that will include the Listed Graham Beck Sun Classique Handicap and the Listed Graham Beck Jamaica Handicap
Suddenly the R1 million price tag looks so damn cheap! Trainer Dean Kannemeyer was a very happy man after his handsome Jet Master colt, Divine
The seven-time Hong Kong Champion Jockey reached the 1814-win milestone with a double at the city circuit to edge past the long-standing mark of 1813 wins set by the legendary Douglas Whyte
A dual Grade 1 winner and South Africa’s highest rated racehorse, the Vaughan Marshall trained One Stripe will campaign in a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam
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
A final field of 17 will face the starter at the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth 2000m marker on Saturday 25 January for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met
