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The ten race Greyville polytrack Sunday programme looks a tricky one but punters could get off to a good start with Swakopmund in the first at 12h00
20th August 2015
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The ten race Greyville polytrack Sunday programme looks a tricky one but punters could get off to a good start with Swakopmund in the first at 12h00
Greyville has been a problem for more years than I care to mention and each year it appears to not even be holding its place as a reasonable surface to race upon but is actually deteriorating
Gold Circle will be looking into possibly reducing the width of the spur for next year’s Vodacom Durban July in order to encourage the runners to spread themselves out over the entire width of the track
With Africa’s greatest horseracing event at Greyville under a fortnight away, it is a touch difficult waxing lyrical about a bread and butter midweek meeting on the polytrack at the same venue
A jockey being stood down at Fairview today for reason of it being a religious day, reminds us of the good old days when Good Friday stood alongside Christmas as the two days of the year when racing took a complete break
Please note that certain races have been switched to the polytrack today
It is KZN horseracing’s first Christmas in close on a century without Clairwood after the Garden Course shut its doors in August this year.Note: The meeting starts earlier than usual at 16h20.
Are there not contingencies that can be put in place to accomodate some of the unforseen? This is after all, a multi-million rand industry, not a church fete
Craig Peters has just announced that the Municipality is testing the current feed to Greyville. Hopes for meeting to go ahead
Power issues and a resultant lack of lighting has delayed tonight’s Greyville night meeting
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
