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Winter Series Triple Crown star African Night Sky’s full-sister runs in the first at Durbanville today
23rd September 2017
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Winter Series Triple Crown star African Night Sky’s full-sister runs in the first at Durbanville today
Bernard Fayd’herbe takes the mount on the Klawervlei bred Fake News in the first of nine races at a well patronised Kenilworth meeting today
The former SA champion saddled the first, second – and fourth for good measure, with Highlands sire Dynasty producing the goods again
The 8yo Jet Master gelding True Master made light of his 62 kgs top weight when storming to a convincing victory
‘I want to race at Kenilworth as much as possible because it will be good experience for the big races there later on in the season’
Richard Fourie showed he means business this season and took up where he left off with his last weekend Gr1 double
Justin Snaith’s 2017 Durban July dreams may not have panned out exactly as he had hoped, but the hotly competitive Cape trainer finished the big day with a flourish
The second of two July Day races to be run on the Greyville polytrack produced a smart win for the well-related Bishop’s Bounty
Varsfontein’s star Dynasty filly Bela-Bela looks likely to be retired to stud after notching her third Gr1 success in facile fashion
African Night Sky raised the rafters on a beautiful winter Saturday afternoon when he stormed to victory to become only the second horse to win the Cape Winter Triple Crown
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
