Assistant Trainer Calls It A Day
Longserving Bass Racing Assistant Trainer Trevor Taylor has called it a day after over 31 years service with the Milnerton-based family operation
2nd December 2018
2 Comments
Longserving Bass Racing Assistant Trainer Trevor Taylor has called it a day after over 31 years service with the Milnerton-based family operation
Bernard Fayd’herbe recently took a drive out to Hemel ‘n Aarde to pay a visit to a special friend
We visit Bass Racing to see how Marinaresco is faring ahead of the 2018 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate
The theme for the 2017 Vodacom Durban July might have been ‘The Colour of Magic’, but it took a touch of magic to prove that there’s no beating a classic.
The 2017 Vodacom Durban July. The highs, the lows and the little horse who threw his heart over the line and took us all with him
The 156th running of South Africa’s oldest horseracing event at Kenilworth today could well showcase a defining moment in the next chapter of a sensational story
Triple Equus Champion breaks the ice in style at Kenilworth on Saturday
The high quality Silvano gelding Marinaresco put his best foot forward to set up a magical moment in a fairytale farewell for veteran trainer Mike Bass as the curtain came down on the 2015 SA Champions Season at Greyville on Sunday
After forty years of saddling winners, Mike Bass hands over the reins to his daughter Candice on Sunday evening. The Sporting Post canvassed a few of those whose lives he has touched
The 2016 SA Champions Season fairytale reaches a heady climax at Greyville today when Cape trainer Mike Bass saddles the Silvano gelding Marinaresco in the R1 million Gr1 Champions Cup
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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
