Bon Voyage, Katak!
Cape Winter Series star Katak has joined Listed Umngeni Handicap winner Celtic Voyager in quarantine en route to an exciting new racing career in Singapore
17th September 2020
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Cape Winter Series star Katak has joined Listed Umngeni Handicap winner Celtic Voyager in quarantine en route to an exciting new racing career in Singapore
‘The plan is to keep Katak here, with Piet, for the new season’s Green Point Stakes, the Queen’s Plate and the 2021 Sun Met, after which he will be exported for overseas racing’
The undoubted fairytale horse of the SA racing season, Katak’s victory was as popular, and probably a lot more emotional for many, as fellow Capetonian Belgarion’s superb score in the Vodacom Durban July twenty four hours earlier
The Potala Pace colt Katak will attempt to keep his unbeaten record intact at Kenilworth today
Piet Steyn’s exciting Potala Palace colt Katak will bid for the R200 000 Cape Winter Series bonus
The Handicappers were of the view that 3rd placed SILVER HOST made for the most suitable line horse.
The unfolding Katak fairytale highlighted a superb afternoon of racing at Kenilworth on Tuesday
Katak is thought by his veteran trainer and internationally experienced jockey to possibly be one of the best horses in the country
After 40 years the veteran trainer bemoans the state of the game
Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Greyville feature, the non black-type Model Man Mile, won by Mike de Kock’s Artist’s Model, paid tribute to one of South Africa’s greatest turf legends of the 20th century.
A man we are privileged to have known as a loyal friend of this great game and of the Sporting Post, a personal mate, and one of South African horseracing’s great characters, Shaheen Shaw, a husband, loving Dad and Grandad, passed away suddenly at the age of 55
