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‘It’s been a rough week for South African horseracing. This is one for the small man in the game…’
16th December 2017
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‘It’s been a rough week for South African horseracing. This is one for the small man in the game…’
The Maine Chance Farms’ stallion, who had been standing at the Southford Stud the past few seasons, suffered a broken leg
A gallant front-running effort by the Sean Tarry trained Stonehenge unravelled in dramatic fashion in the closing stages of the Gr2 Colorado King Stakes
While the Dubai World Cup to be run on Saturday for a purse of $10 000 000, is a relatively new race –it was first run in 1996 –it is a race whose winners already include some breed shaping stallions
The diminutive Dorrie Sham-trained Lateral filly Arabica produced a previously unseen turn of foot to score a shock 40-1 win in the Fairview feature – not bad for a filly with skew legs, a parrot mouth and who changes legs every second stride like a dressage horse
The Dingaans winner was rumoured to be heading for foreign shores but he commences his Highveld feature season campaign in earnest here and should be watched in the months ahead
Standing a new stallion at stud is a bit like taking on the All Blacks rugby team at Eden Park- the odds are stacked against you, suggests a prominent Breeder
Sprinters have made their mark all over the world, and include some of the hottest stallions in the world.
The least fancied runner in the field of fourteen was still some way back at the 300m marker and looked to have no chance of getting to the leaders. But in an emotional race for the Marwing brothers, Weichong started asking Bilateral for an effort and she responded like a missile, taking off down the inside rail to catch the favourite Alboran Sea in the final strides
Maine Chance Farms’ promising young first crop sire Lateral enjoyed a cracking double at Turffontein this past Saturday.
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
