Matrons On The Move
With the 2018 South African breeding season just around the corner, many farms have finalised mating plans for some of their top broodmares
27th July 2018
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With the 2018 South African breeding season just around the corner, many farms have finalised mating plans for some of their top broodmares
An eight-race programme with an average of just over nine runners per race, and where more than one trainer observed that they had been requested to leave horses in, or risk losing races, does not bode well – when we are already nicely into summer.
How impressive was this? Woodruff filly comes out firing to win Oaks Trial in breathtaking style
A number of really good SA broodmares have achieved plenty with their offspring but were never named Broodmare of the Year.
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
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
