‘Anyone who bemoans a penalty after a weight-for-age event knowing that they were competing against higher rated older horses, doesn’t understand how weight-for-age or merit rating works’
Multiple champion trainer Mike de Kock has labelled Mount Pleasant ‘a horse of international quality’ and a candidate to win a Gr1 in Australia
How will the handicappers rate the performance of Mike de Kock’s unbeaten 3yo Mount Pleasant?
Champion Trainer Mike de Kock spared no daggers in his disdain for the NHRA handicappers after his smart Soft Falling Rain filly Gin Fizz held on to win the non black-type
‘The future of South African racing and the employment of tens of thousands of workers in our industry rest on the shoulders of the EU’ – multiple champion trainer
Described as a ‘solid rock of a horse’ by champion trainer Mike De Kock, the Australian-bred Mount Pleasant got the better of his stablemate Najem Suhail
Trainers Sean Tarry and Mike de Kock have had the jockeys they declared for Sunday’s Gr1 races at Hollywoodbets Greyville declined and removed by the National Horseracing Authority
Mike de Kock’s newsmaking star Hawwaam returned to winning ways in style at Turffontein on Saturday
Vodacom Durban July All Time Greats, Sean Tarry on his Vaal Tuesday runners and some Bundesliga action
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
Outstanding colt Nepotism (Brutal) scored one of the most remarkable Gr1 wins by a 2YO on an Australian racetrack in recent memory
