Snaith Sergeant Takes Charge
Soldier sprinter Sergeant Hardy breaks new ground with his first Gr1 win
28th January 2018
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Soldier sprinter Sergeant Hardy breaks new ground with his first Gr1 win
Justin Snaith’s perpetual motion machine Sergeant Hardy came out firing on all cylinders to go from gun to tape
With progeny by Dynasty, Captain Al, Silvano, Twice Over, What a Winter, Trippi, Var and Gimmethegreenlight, Normandy Stud believes their 2017 CTS Ready To Run draft is their strongest ever
A cracking start-to-finish effort from Cup Trial runner-up Crowd Pleaser opened the July day feature programme at Greyville
Oscar Foulkes shares the incredible story of Sergeant Hardy, who lines up for this weekend’s Gr1 Tsogo Sun Sprint
Excluding the factor of the vendor having carried the cost of the additional months of keep, as well as two months of pre-training, buyers can see how the horses move at pace.
A long-priced Cape Nursery double was the knockout blow at a sun drenched Kenilworth on Saturday
Punters suffered a body blow when longshot Nordic Breeze turned the tables on her previously unbeaten odds-on stablemate, to win the Gr3 Kenilworth Fillies Nursery
Trainer Justin Snaith reeled off an extraordinary winning streak and marketing coup when saddling the first five winners on the flagship J&B Met card at Kenilworth on Saturday
The Windrush gelding Roman Carnival is one of the fastest improving horses in training and set himself up for a major paydate on the Vaal sand at the end of September, when skating home an easy winner of Saturday’s R250 000 Gr3 August Stakes
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
