26th July 2011
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The tussle for the SA Champion Sire title took a few twists and turns at Durbanville on 20 July with three winners each for Jet Master and Captain Al. Super Saturday is shaping as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral at this stage of the game!
The Lonsdale Stirrup Cup looked to be about as open and competitive a race as you could find. With 18 runners competing on handicap terms over 2400m, it was always going to be a tricky contest to unravel.
Champion sire Jet Master has been much in the news this last weekend of January 2011. A pair of yearling colts topped the inaugural Cape Premier Sale, at 2.5 million apiece. And 4yo Past Master won the 2.5 million J&B Met. But the price of success differs.
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
