Fortune the Attraction at Turffontein
Dave Mollett writes in Business Day about Andrew Fortune’s return to Turffontein this afternoon
14th September 2013
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Dave Mollett writes in Business Day about Andrew Fortune’s return to Turffontein this afternoon
LANCE BENSON: Are our racing gods falling into the blame trap and the leaning on past glories when it comes to igniting a revival of racing?
LANCE BENSON: Are we marketing the game correctly? This crossed my mind after spending Sunday at Durbanville in the company of a few dirty pigs in the parade ring
LANCE BENSON: We really cannot cry foul when we get nailed six love in the betting arena.
LANCE BENSON: I believe it was author Robert C Gallagher who suggested that change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. And it is indeed strange that the racing operator would have allowed the sponsor to tinker with the veritable ATM machine that is the J&B Met.
LANCE BENSON: A few leading local owners have stepped forward and put theirweight behind sponsoring feature races in this Cape’s Sizzling Summer Season.
LANCE BENSON: The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity. Cape feels like the awkward child that nobody really wanted,. and now ironically finds itself at the centre of some rather unwanted attention and veiled custody battles at the Competition Tribunal
LANCE BENSON: In the current local climate of pessimism and doom and gloom, the United Kingdom and Ireland’s most watched dedicated racing channel is forecast to have a record year in 2012
As a horse-racing punter, one is driven by the prospect of a quick solution to improve one’s financial position. In all forms of gambling the odds of winning are substantially less than most players are aware
The strategic and powerful role of the media to inform and empower Joe Public with balanced information was reinforced in no uncertain terms when Phindi Kema was granted a rare platform to have her say
LANCE BENSON: It may not have come anything near to the larney Emerald show up North, but it was all happening at the Big D.
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
