MJ – Back In A Moon Boot
Discharged from Kingsbury on Tuesday morning after further surgery – can’t blame him if he feels like Neil Armstrong!
10th February 2021
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Discharged from Kingsbury on Tuesday morning after further surgery – can’t blame him if he feels like Neil Armstrong!
On Saturday the still injury sidelined MJ won’t be in the saddle where he’d prefer to be – but in a chair in front of the bright glare of the studio lights and Tellytrack cameras at Kenilworth
Breeders of champion racehorses and producers of fine wines for decades, Somerset West-based Avontuur Estate was one of the groundbreaking brands to harness the reciprocal benefits of sponsoring jockeys
While his timing is lethal on the racetrack, Sun Met winning jockey MJ Byleveld has not had the same good fortune when it comes to injuries.
Sun Met defending champion combination Vaughan Marshall and MJ Byleveld broke the Snaith-Fourie stranglehold on the Listed Settlers Trophy
The local season survived stakes cuts, a high-profile sponsor bale out, and the inevitable dramatic sideshow moments, to emerge as a show we can’t wait to watch all over again
‘I said later to Ryan Moore – how did you like watching the South African flag for a whole circuit of Kenilworth?’
Hometown hero MJ Byleveld and his partner One World outgunned international star Ryan Moore and defending champion Rainbow Bridge
Vaughan Marshall spotted the Listed Lady’s Pendant as a potential confidence booster for the major centre stakes performer Canukeepitsecret
Gauteng trainer Candice Dawson has found it tough going so far in the no holds barred bullring of the Sizzling Summer Season but made her trip down South worthwhile with her first winner in the Cape
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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
