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Justin Snaith may have unwittingly thrown punters a curved ball on Tellytrack recently. He suggested in a routine interview that Port Elizabeth is the perfect
13th February 2012
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Justin Snaith may have unwittingly thrown punters a curved ball on Tellytrack recently. He suggested in a routine interview that Port Elizabeth is the perfect
When we reflect back on the outstanding J&B Met raceday, we note the inevitable roll of the victors and the vanquished. The results also showed
Winning isn’t everything – it is the only thing. This applies most especially on the festival occasions like J&B Met day. The Sporting Post salutes
The track record of the fairer sex in the Met over the past half century is not particularly impressive on paper. Only five ladies have
A torturous heat wave cloaked the Western Cape in a hot blanket today and had punters in a sweat with a few form reversals and
The spectacular L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate day held at Kenilworth on 7 January was the ultimate personification of the ritzy, glitzy and quite glamourous smile on
Justin Snaith produced the Gr1 gem for owner Hassen Adams when the Australian bred 3yo colt Gimmethegreenlight won the Gr 1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate
Run For It ran a disastrous race in the R300 000 Gr2 Peninsula Handicap run over 1800m to throw the J&B Met ante-post betting into further
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!
LANCE BENSON: The curtain comes down on another tumultuous and testing year. While much has changed, one wonders if we really are any better off than we were twelve months.
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
