Lockdown – Getting To Us?
A reader says he is very disappointed with some of the comments which followed the Mike de Kock interview
22nd May 2020
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A reader says he is very disappointed with some of the comments which followed the Mike de Kock interview
Multiple champion trainer Mike de Kock tells veteran broadcaster Andrew Bensley about the frustrations of the lockdown and says he and others are close to some’hard decisions’
‘It is disingenuous to say that the TT has been tasked with ‘safeguarding, re-capitalising and restructuring the racing industry’
Racing Association Directors Mike de Kock and Charles Savage will be live today at 12h00 on Bizweb’s interactive Rational Radio show.
‘We’ve had to play the cards we have been dealt to help everyone actively working in this industry to the best of our ability’
‘Early on I was concerned alcohol would not be available but that seems to be okay. In fact, the odd few who used to come to work bleary eyed the morning after payday are now arriving at the stable bright-eyed and bushy tailed.’
‘It is such a shame that all racehorses can’t retire in the dignified fashion they deserve’m – Mike de Kock
Just a week earlier, Mary Slack was thrilled to have had a daughter of Wilgerbosdrift’s Gr1 winning sire Flower Alley chasing Summer Pudding home in the SA Fillies Classic
Matthew de Kock and his partner Monique Mansour, a long-time assistant to Sean Tarry and sister to jockey Donovan Mansour, fly out to Australia today
Bella Fever has arrived in Riyadh accompanied by Mike, Declan Cronin and groom, Shorty Feni
Trainer Mike de Kock is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia this week to saddle his 3yo Bella Fever in this weekend’s inaugural Saudi Cup meeting
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
