Trainer Dean Kannemeyer has the best recent record, having won this race four times in the past thirteen years, and he will be hopeful of a big showing from his luckless Cape Winter Triple Crown pretender, Power King
“We are sad but also excited to be leaving South Africa. The limited opportunities locally coupled with the excellent positions offered to us in the United Kingdom have made the move a ‘no brainer’…”
Two classy fillies of mostly unfulfilled promise on the racetrack line up on the Turffontein inside track at a welcome night meeting on Tuesday evening
An eventful and dramatic race – and who can blame Strydom for objecting? If the result had gone against the Bass runner, there is little doubt that Sean Cormack would have stomped the same path to the Stipes boardroom
The Mike Bass PE satellite yard received a much needed boost of firepower that delivered instant results at Fairview on Friday. Arriving from Cape Town under 24 hours prior to the race, the Muhtafal gelding Titus showed his class with a smart win in the R100 000 Fairview 1800.
The Cape’s country course will be a popular destination for the Heritage Day crowd today. With some good quality racing dished up recently, the two form yards of Mike Bass and Glen Kotzen may also pay to follow on a competitive eight-race public holiday programme
He was our July horse two seasons ago, but this is a funny game some times. We took him to Durban for Champions Season last year and he did a tendon in work at Greyville three weeks prior to the Daily News
“It was a choice of going to Turffontein or taking them to Durban and I was not prepared to go to Summerveld with them.”
The Gr1 sprint brought the curtain down on 93 years of feature racing action at one of South Africa’s prime racecourses, and but for one last meeting which will host the Asian Young Guns Challenge on Saturday 2 August, that is tragically it
Precocity in racehorses is often marked by an inability to train on. But Hammie’s Hooker has bucked the trend and looks to be getting better as she matures, despite her mid career slump
Young jockey bounces back from injury and a shocking fall two weeks ago to ride a treble and credits his famous father for assisting him
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
