Caviar Says No
LANCE BENSON: Black Caviar is giving the Gr1 QIPCO Sussex Stakes a miss and avoiding a potentially mindbending head-on clash with the globe’s highest-rated horse, Frankel.
29th May 2012
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LANCE BENSON: Black Caviar is giving the Gr1 QIPCO Sussex Stakes a miss and avoiding a potentially mindbending head-on clash with the globe’s highest-rated horse, Frankel.
LANCE BENSON: Zimbabwe horseracing has opened its doors and hearts to South African owners and trainers.
LANCE BENSON: Let’s stop pretending and inject a little needle into the sport of kings. It sure seems to work everywhere else!
The absence of collateral form and the unknown natural improvement of the 2yo’s complicates the issue for punters in the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes at Scottsville on Worker’s Day
LANCE BENSON: Champions Day punctuates the National Yearling Sale and reflects the glamorous, shiny and happy side of the sport of kings. But the sport also brings out the worst in mankind.
This R2-million race has all the makings of a memorable contest. Bravura and Dancewiththedevil, are faced with the prospect of dusting off the record of their below-par last runs, if they are to stand any chance of getting the measure of a rising star Europa Point.
Stamina doubts lie at the heart of unravelling the Gr2 SA Oaks puzzle. Only 4 of the thirteen 3yo fillies have tried the 2450m trip previously and then only with mixed success.
LANCE BENSON: Trainer Sean Miller’s remarkable training feat of six winners at Flamingo Park on Monday was a fitting tribute to his late father and mentor
LANCE BENSON: We have enough stodgy, starched fakes in action. Bring on the real people like Andrew Fortune and the public ratings can only go in the right direction.
LANCE BENSON: Nothing is more important in horseracing than picking the right horse, whether you are punting horses or buying them. Random swipes in the dark may have worked on the odd occasion but a scientific ordered approach to yearling selection dramatically reduces risk.
LANCE BENSON:The vast chasm between good and poor communication to the public was shown by two separate incidents on our Tellytrack screens last week.
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
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
