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The vast chasm between the hype and glamour of this past Saturday’s royal raceday and this afternoon’s rather mundane midweek fare was vividly illustrated at
11th January 2012
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The vast chasm between the hype and glamour of this past Saturday’s royal raceday and this afternoon’s rather mundane midweek fare was vividly illustrated at
Tellytrack presenter Shaheen Shaw justly berated his production team during the embattled channel’s broadcast on Friday 6 January. Shaw took the back-room to task for
South Africa’s most elegantly sophisticated royal and regal triple feature raceday is drawing near, with the afternoon’s bumper bill is headed by the R1 million Gr1 L’Ormarins Queens Plate to be run at weight-for-age over a mile.
What a day for owner Knut Haug, trainer Dennis Drier and jockey Alec Forbes. The Sharks combination teamed up to spoil the Stormers New Years party with a sweetly taken treble at Kenilworth on the Cape’s very own ‘Tweede Nuwe Jaar’ celebrations. Unhappily for local breeders, all three of the Drier winners are imports!
His record speaks for itself, but the impact of the tragic recent early demise of multiple champion stallion Jet Master cannot be underestimated. He sired
The R1 million Gr 1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate barrier draws were announced on 22 December with Guineas winner Variety Club and the sensational Diadem winner
LANCE BENSON: When Joey Ramsden showered the Cape Premier Yearling Sale Guineas winner’s podium on Saturday afternoon with the liquid lava spurting from a jeroboam of Moet, the fantasy fountain signified new beginnings and milestones in a few lives.
We were fortunate to witness two smashing colts at Kenilworth on Saturday. One measure that the connections of Diadem Stakes winner What A Winter and
Variety Club established himself as the top 3yo miler in South Africa with a scintillating victory in the R1 million Gr1 Cape Guineas at Kenilworth on 17 December. After juggling with his supporters’ emotions…
LANCE BENSON: Great horses, brilliant trainers and colourful characters and legends aplenty dominate the Gr1 Cape Guineas this Saturday.
The Princess reigns! Glen Kotzen’s star Victory Moon filly Princess Victoria turned chamber maid at Kenilworth on 3 December when she swept the floor with
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
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
