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Mike De Kock started the new year on a high with a good win in the R150 000 Gr3 Flamboyant Stakes at Clairwood
1st January 2013
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Mike De Kock started the new year on a high with a good win in the R150 000 Gr3 Flamboyant Stakes at Clairwood
Mike De Kock took the first major prize of the Cape’s Sizzling Summer Season with an unbeaten star filly
The R750 000 Gr1 Avontuur Estate Cape Fillies Guineas draw was made at the estate in Somerset West this afternoon
Mike de Kock is hoping to take the Dubai World Cup Carnival by storm with his team of new hopefuls
There is more than money at stake in the Gr3 Starling Stakes. The pride of receiving the trophy from royalty. Mike de Kock holds the key to the castle and a strong hand with four powerful contenders.
A strong entry of 43 runners nominated for the Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes to be run over 1800m at Turffontein on Friday 16 November.
There are a number of things that make the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale unique, locally and abroad. The R2.5 million Ready To Run Cup boasts the richest prize money of any race of its kind in the world…..
The good horses somehow find the good trainers and Mike De Kock has had much success and good fortune with the progeny of Kahal. It is early days, but the mature and decisive manner of Festival Of Fire’s record-breaking win spoke volumes of plenty to come.
We’ve labelled him mercurial. We’ve suggested he is enigmatic. He may even be something of an equine Jekyll and Hyde. But there is no denying Link Man’s capabilities on the track when on song.
ROBYN LOUW: Boobs and racing! I don’t often get the opportunity to start a column like that and figured I had to grab the opportunity with both hands (oh dear …).
Somewhere in an unknown address, funny little people who patently know nothing, are driven by a form of paranoia. Or more worrying, may well have an axe to grind or have become accommodating for other reasons, to invent restrictions on South African horses that are beyond comprehension.
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
