Nine of the greatest Flat and National Hunt jockeys of all time feature among the declarations for day two of the Longines Irish Champions Weekend at the Curragh on Sunday
‘His extraordinary rapport with the horse has not quite been matched by his dealings with humans – particularly not those in authority with whom he’s had a career-long battle…’
It has been 22 years since recently retired – and now riding work again – Kieren Fallon pulled his colleague Stuart Webster from his mount
“This is where racing is, where it’s all about. There’s great racing here and good people. I love it here.”
Hayley Turner brings the curtain down on her career as a jockey with five rides on the final day of the Flat season at Doncaster on Saturday
Kieren Fallon’s stop-start season in the saddle in Britain appears to have stalled once again after his agent, said that she has not spoken to the jockey for several days and no longer has any way to contact him
Wainstein says that it was great to get Fallon to come to South Africa again and it’s going to make it all very interesting – while Hayley Turner is on record is saying that her South African rides will be the last of her career
“I didn’t feel I was riding very well at home and I just thought a break would do me the world of good. It would be better than packing in anyway, I don’t feel I’m not ready for that just yet, and I have enjoyed my time riding out here in the sun.”
“I’d like to go back to California, which I intend doing in the next couple of weeks just to try and get the buzz back again”
When you are slagged off by individuals who have no experience of what they are talking about – and he has to be in that category – then it really angers me
This time last week we were looking forward to the 163rd renewal of the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
Leading South African-based owners Hollywood Racing have broken new ground with the acquisition of five yearlings during the Book 1 session at Karaka this week
