Variety Club
Shakespeare wrote “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” In Variety Club’s case, he definitely seems to fall in the first category.
24th March 2015
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Shakespeare wrote “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” In Variety Club’s case, he definitely seems to fall in the first category.
A potentially more serious issue is that ten days before Brait’s cautionary announcement, a number of Steinhoff directors – including Wiese, CEO Markus Jooste and founder Bruno Steinhoff – spent R122-million buying Steinhoff shares and single-stock futures
No individual has dominated the South African horseracing landscape more in living memory than Markus Jooste in recent years. On Saturday he played a leading role at Kenilworth – this morning he is making news in the boardroom in a major deal with a household name in the retail game
The Salesgate saga has created waves in the South African racing and breeding industry. In an open letter to Markus Jooste, a longstanding smaller breeder makes an impassioned plea for answers
An extraordinary feat at Turffontein four years ago went largely unnoticed until a Cape jockey and owner pulled off a similar rare achievement at Durbanville this past Saturday
In a statement that will leave fans anxious about the big chestnut’s future, Mike de Kock says ‘it’s decision time for Markus’.
Deauville is more than ever a stronghold at the international level
“I got a sense then for the first time how important these races are for South Africans and I actually felt pressure to the point that I didn’t want to sit in the room.” Mike de Kock speaks about how it feels to represent the hopes of a nation
Many thought that Hill Fifty Four had missed the one chance that he had to win the Met when running second to outsider Martial Eagle in 2013. But the son of Captain Al came out in a galloping mood at Kenilworth on Saturday to pull off a rather spectacular win in the R2,5 million Gr1 race over 2000m and run for the 37th time under the J&B banner.
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
