Yorker In Horse Chestnut Cliffhanger
So close as local lad Yorker steals match winning march on Cape champion Capetown Noir in a breathtaking finish to Horse Chestnut Stakes
29th March 2014
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So close as local lad Yorker steals match winning march on Cape champion Capetown Noir in a breathtaking finish to Horse Chestnut Stakes
Zaki’s Jet Master gelding outstays his field in the mud to win the Listed Aauanaut Handicap in impressive style
Tragedy strikes as valiant Kimberley 1400 winner Sky Marshal is injured in shadow of the winning post
The Cape Flying Championship was introduced as a test of sheer speed and run for the first time in 1969 for a stake of R4000
The Cape Guineas has been an integral source of champions on the colourful tapestry of South African horseracing for close on a century
Master Of My Fate silences the doubters with a breathtaking victory that has J&B Met written all over it
North America’s graded stakes races this year have been dominated by the progeny of former Breeders Cup Juvenile winner, Unbridled’s Song.
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
