Thursday Thrills For SA
South African Trained Horses Bid For Ninth Win in Dubai Group 2 Race on Thursday
22nd January 2014
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South African Trained Horses Bid For Ninth Win in Dubai Group 2 Race on Thursday
A rare frustrating flirtation, with feature race disappointment for champion trainer Mike De Kock, turned around when Flirtation clinched the Gr2 Colorado King Stakes
As the world’s richest horse race, the Dubai World Cup approaches, James Trotter takes a beady eye at the fields, dangers and how our South African connections could feature
Racing made a welcome return to Clairwood on Sunday 18 March after an enforced break at the South Durban track following the controversially abandoned meeting
There are no programming issues in Dubai racing it seems. As a perfect prep for world horseracing’s richest night on 31 March, Super Saturday provided
Racing people have always been superstitious, and Friday 13th has long carried its own demons. For Summerhill, it was a black day with the sudden death of the Dubai star, Bankable.
Kadyrov, a one-time Vladimir Putin associate who rules Chechnya with an iron hand, has been mired in international controversy.
The Bass’ stable Fort Vogue and Galileo’s Galaxy have been sold to Herman Brown to race internationally for Brown’s chief patron and Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov in Dubai. Here’s a direct link to the Mike Bass website
The Herman Brown trained Gitano Hernando with Glynn Scholfield ran first with and South African bred, trained and owned River Jetez second
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
