The Milnerton-based pair have always enjoyed great success at Scottsville and they would have been thrilled with the return to winning form of their promising Gr1 winner
The racing community has rallied to support Alistair Cohen in his battle against cancer. Local jockeys are shaving their heads in a show of solidarity.
“Neither I nor MJ Byleveld saw Greg Cheyne – but somebody gets hurt so the Stipes have to act…”
Vaughan Marshall’s Australian-bred Lord Balmoral ran his opposition off their feet with a display of power galloping
Wonderful weather, wonderful horses and wonderful racing. Why then did it just not feel like the Guineas?
Cape jockey MJ Byleveld has had an operation to repair a right leg injury he suffered after being kicked
The Cape raiding combination of jockey MJ Byleveld and trainer Vaughan Marshall were on the mark with a 100% strike double at Fairview on Friday
I cannot wait to get back to Kenilworth – and hopefully the new course – as soon as possible. I am sick and tired of this ridiculous system of entering horses at Durbanville and then drawing 45 or 50 and the fields then end up with only eight runners
“It is always said that jockeys just take from the horseracing game and never give anything back. We felt that hosting a charity race day would be a wonderful way of giving something back to retired racehorses and the grooms, who are a big part of our lives. Our aim is to try and get as many people as we can to the racecourse…“
The Milnerton-based Vaughan Marshall yard are well and truly back to form. They celebrated a winning hat-trick on the Kenilworth Saturday programme, with the Western Winter gelding Exelero producing a sparkling performance after a 17 week break – MJ Byleveld rode all three winners
A sustained late effort by the Sean Tarry second stringer Epsom Downs proved good enough to grab victory in the shadow of the post from gallant longtime leader Withbatedbreath
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
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
