Tellytrack has really just gone downhill since Nico Kritsiotis stepped down from a management role some time ago. Friday evening’s studio production was one of their worst ever and they just never seemed to get any better. Besides making Jimmy Lithgow look like a mug, they seem to believe that their viewers will accept the sub-standard nonsense forever.
It was the universal view at Friday’s gallops at Summerhill, that this was the best catalogue the Ready To Run had assembled.
Michael Roberts will contest the South African trainers championship in the not to distant future.
The jockey duel fizzles out at Turffontein on an afternoon where trainer Lucky Houdalakis and jockey Donovan Mansour celebrate a great double.
Michael or Muis as he is affectionately known had a brilliant career as a jockey becoming one of the first foreign jockeys ever to become Britain’s champion jockey.
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
