Former Cape champion trainer Joey Ramsden celebrates his 52nd birthday today with fiancé Stephanie Grentell and their daughter Ruby at Bribie Island in the south of Queensland
South African horseracing will bid farewell to one of its great characters and leading trainers at the end of November
Joey Ramsden has decided against moving to Singapore to train
Dynasty’s Blossom is first member of the fairer sex to win the Gold Cup since Colonial Girl in 2000
I know there has been a lot of speculation about my future in South Africa and I just want to take this opportunity to reassure my owners that I am here…
“If there is no action, and it proves to be a lot of bollocks, then we close up here before Christmas,”
While the Vodacom Durban July draw may not have gone according to plan, the top trainer enjoyed a welcome change of fortune with his well-travelled Morning Catch
Former Cape Champion trainer Joey Ramsden enjoys the honour of saddling the first South African runner by Newsells Park seven time Gr1 winning sire Nathaniel
News that former Cape champion trainer Joey Ramsden had been given the green light to move to Singapore came as a shock to many locals who rate him as one of the best exponents of one of the most complex professions in a tricky industry
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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
