Another Special Finish!
‘It doesn’t get much more nail biting than this clash. Two of the best 3yo horses we have seen in a very long time’
5th April 2020
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‘It doesn’t get much more nail biting than this clash. Two of the best 3yo horses we have seen in a very long time’
For the second year running, the Mike De Kock-trained National Emblem gelding Shea Shea won the Gr3 Meydan Sprint on Super Saturday
New PE trainer is quick off the mark again as she registers thrilling first feature winner at Fairview on Friday
A Klawervlei Bred sprinter carried the flag for SA bloodstock in the Al Quoz Sprint after Highlands Stud’s Soft Falling Rain had won earlier
SARAH WHITELAW: John Koster pays tribute to the former champion race horse, and successful sire, National Emblem has died.
National Emblem, sire of ten Gr1 winners, died on Wednesday at Klawervlei Stud at age 21.
SARAH WHITELAW: Looks at the long history of the Epsom Oaks being won by some of the sport’s greatest fillies; and the father/son combination of National Assembly and National Emblem
This time it was Shea Shea who lifted the spoils, which neatly perhaps answers the question of why Earl Of Surrey was not in the line-up again.
The seven-time Hong Kong Champion Jockey reached the 1814-win milestone with a double at the city circuit to edge past the long-standing mark of 1813 wins set by the legendary Douglas Whyte
A dual Grade 1 winner and South Africa’s highest rated racehorse, the Vaughan Marshall trained One Stripe will campaign in a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
A final field of 17 will face the starter at the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth 2000m marker on Saturday 25 January for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met
