De Kock’s Champions Cup Power Punch
Mike de Kock’s Buffalo Bill Cody and year younger stablemate Soqrat will contest the R1 million Gr1 Champions Cup
15th July 2019
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Mike de Kock’s Buffalo Bill Cody and year younger stablemate Soqrat will contest the R1 million Gr1 Champions Cup
He is fit and well and his duel in the sixth race with Gr1 Gold Challenge runner-up Cirillo should be a fascinating one
The son of Gimmethegreenlight will be much fitter when he takes on Hawwaam this time!
‘He rides him at work every day – and he hasn’t told me he is not riding Hawwaam!’
We probably don’t have enough Workriders races in KZN
A 9,75 length aggregate winner of his last two Gr1 starts, Hawwaam went through the motions off a moderate early pace in the seven horse field at his KZN debut start
The 3yo, who had social media and the chat forums buzzing after his shock withdrawal prior to the SA Derby last month, stamped himself a colt with a bright future
It’s been just a week since that amazing Wednesday at the National Yearling Sale that saw a dazzling new South African record sales mark set
The power of the foreign buying bench has always been a strategic balancing factor in the thoroughbred sales scheme of things.
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
