A Big Day For Restless Knights
LANCE BENSON: Great horses, brilliant trainers and colourful characters and legends aplenty dominate the Gr1 Cape Guineas this Saturday.
14th December 2011
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LANCE BENSON: Great horses, brilliant trainers and colourful characters and legends aplenty dominate the Gr1 Cape Guineas this Saturday.
Mike de Kock still has a powerful team assembled for the 2012 Dubai World Cup Carnival, despite a setback due to the ban on exports following an outbreak of African horse sickness
LANCE BENSON: Mike De Kock’s entertaining post-race comments on Sunday included the silly censorship scissors from our Tellytrack. Oh so predictable.
The Sansui Summer Cup draw somewhat overshadowed the track proceedings at Turffontein on 15 November. That said, Mike De Kock produced another ace from up
ROBYN LOUW: there was a certain amount of huffing and puffing about the latest International Jockey Challenge
An Appeal was lodged by Mr. Mike de Kock on behalf of the connections of Atlantic Oak and Empenoso Henn against the Merit Ratings implemented subsequent to Race 5 run on 25 October 2011.
The KwaZulu-Natal horseracing community saluted their champions and achievers at an enjoyable 2010/11 KZN Racing Awards banquet held in the stately surrounds of the Durban
Sean Tarry’s Royal Academy colt Verrochio stepped into the Emperors Palace Ready-To-Run Cup limelight with a scintillating win at Turffontein on 20 October. It is
It was the universal view at Friday’s gallops at Summerhill, that this was the best catalogue the Ready To Run had assembled.
Mike De Kock is approaching the Highveld and Cape Seasons with some big guns. He showed a small part of his hand at the Turffontein night meeting on 18 October
It’s “Gallops” week for the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale, and so the performance of Bloodstock markets around the world was always going to be of topical interest to South African horsemen.
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
