De Kock turns on the heat
The sleeping giant awakes. Champion trainer Mike De Kock shook Turffontein to its foundations on 8 October with five brilliant winners, including a Gr3 double,
9th October 2011
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The sleeping giant awakes. Champion trainer Mike De Kock shook Turffontein to its foundations on 8 October with five brilliant winners, including a Gr3 double,
LANCE BENSON: Next weekend sees the running of South Africa’s richest race on sand, the Gr2 Emerald Cup.
The new Polytrack training surface at Randjesfontein was officially opened by Phumelela’s racing executive Patrick Davis and champion trainer Mike de Kock on Wednesday with the ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by around 100 people, including Larry Wainstein, chairman of the Racing Association which owns Randjesfontein, jockeys, the media and trainers from as far afield as Port Elizabeth.
Anthony Delpech rode his 200th winner in the opener of the Greyville night meeting on 12 July. A hat-trick on the night meant that he edged four clear of a hounding Anton Marcus in the Jockey Championship title race…
The winds of change or a harmless breeze off the ocean of everyday life? We have been spoilt this week by a Phumelela press release and the reporting of a few sensitive issues in the Racegoer pages. This follows an eventful and dramatic Vodacom Durban July and there might be some light at the end of the tunnel after all!
The 2011 Vodacom Durban July turned into a celebration for Mike De kock and Anthony Delpech for the second year running. Their star filly Igugu silenced her detractors and left a trail of broken dreams and dented egos in her wake…
Bravura has hit peak form at the perfect time. Having been out of action for most of 2010 through injury, Bravura looks to be at least as good as ever as a late four-year-old.
He has trained the winner of every Group race in South Africa and has five runners, including the favourite Igugu, in Saturday’s Vodacom Durban July.
There’s no South African racing fan worth his salt, that doesn’t know Bankable.
They got it all wrong here and burnt their fingers. Punters somehow let the powerful Mike De Kock and Anthony Delpech combination run free in the eighth race at Turffontein on Youth Day 16 June
Never underestimate a champion trainer and always exercise caution with Gauteng feature form. The unstoppable Mike De Kock threw punters a curved ball at Turffontein on Sunday 12 June when he produced the Argentinian–bred Candy Singer, at a generous 18-1 to win the R200 000 Gr3 Jubilee Handicap
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
