The Courier vehicle delivering the specimens that were collected from horses that participated at the Hollywoodbets Scottsville Race meeting on Sunday and was en route to the NHRA Laboratory, has been hijacked in Johannesburg
The NHRA handicappers have published their assessments after the big weekend at Kenilworth
The National Board has resolved to call, and notice is accordingly hereby given, of a Special General Meeting
He is heavily invested in the sport of horseracing for 30 years and his current string of horses in racing and breeding is in excess of 250
A few days after receiving a 7 day suspension for the same offence…
The Inquiry Board took into account that this was Jockey Murray’s seventh contravention of this Rule in the last five weeks
After considering the evidence the Inquiry Board imposed a penalty of a suspension from riding in races for a period of seven days
If horses can improve out of the blue like that without even a bleat from the Stipes, then who is looking after the interests of those that keep the tote’s engine fuelled day in and day out?
The frightening spectre of feed contamination for SA racehorse trainers has been highlighted again
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