Joey Ramsden and Anton Marcus are supremely confident about the prospects of their KRA Guineas winner, The Conglomerate. But are they underestimating the Gauteng based filly and the Tarry, Strydom and De Beyer brains trust?
With the Cape Winter Series first leg winner Act Of War a likely runner in next weekend’s Gr1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge at Greyville, the path is opened for his talented stablemate Liquid Mercury to step into the void and make a name for himself in today’s Gr3 Winter Classic
If you are drawn high up the straight course, you are racing in what appears to be a long line of glue, suggests trainer Joey Ramsden
When the guys on top – with the best intentions – are sending you in the opposite direction as well, it really does make for some tough decision making
The Sunday stakes feature was a memorable one for leading Cape stud, Maine Chance, whose black and yellow silks were worn by the first two home. They also bred the runner-up, a smart daughter of Lateral, while the winner was bred by another Cape breeder in Digteby Stud
The rampant Joey Ramsden made it another glorious feature winning weekend. And while the honour roll of the local Derby has not produced any real stars over the past few years, the classy St Tropez looks very progressive and could prove the exception to the rule
The salestopping Var colt Tar Heel endorsed the quality of the groundbreaking inaugural 2014 CTS Johannesburg Ready To Run Sale, when he charged home to win the R125 000 Listed Somerset 1200
The form yards may be best to follow – and that means Ramsden and Crawford – but they saddle half the field between them.
One of our colts, owned by Bernard Kantor, is named after a very special man in the Kantor household, Macduff. The real Macduff was at our stables this morning to watch the horse that carries his name have a spin on the grass
A tough card at Scottsville today where the Cape trainers could enjoy more winners to build on their bright start to the KZN winter season
The masterful trainer wrote another personal chapter in the South African horseracing history books at Kenilworth on Sunday when he saddled the winners of two colts’ Guineas within the space of twenty four hours
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
The former Tellytrack ace suggested that the 2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July experience had been one of his most enjoyable yet
