Sizzling Summer City
Dean Kannemeyer’s smart Royal Academy colt Cape Royal was the sole acceptor for a R62 000 1000m Graduation Plate programmed for Kenilworth this Saturday.
11th December 2012
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Dean Kannemeyer’s smart Royal Academy colt Cape Royal was the sole acceptor for a R62 000 1000m Graduation Plate programmed for Kenilworth this Saturday.
ROBYN LOUW: The 2012 Sansui Summer Cup will go down in racing history as one of our most popular and heart-warming results.
The 2012 season saw a number of exceptionally well bred, and well performed sires retire to stud.
LANCE BENSON: There is no evidence to suggest that smaller fields translate into smaller multi-leg exotic pools. In fact there appears evidence to suggest the opposite!
ROBYN LOUW: What a year it’s been for racing. We need to salute the champions of racing and their achievements.
SARAH WHITELAW: What has happened to the great classic sirelines and why do they seem to be fading into history?
ROBYN LOUW: This weekend is a big one in the EC racing calendar. On Friday, Fairview hosts the RA Stakes and generously allows the energetic Dorrie Sham and her team to use the rest of the day to raise funds for the EC Horse Care Unit.
LANCE BENSON: The International Jockeys’ Challenge has attracted so much attention from so many with so many fingers being pointed at so few but we have got to learn, laugh and move on now.
Despite sub-fertility issues stallion Goldkeeper has done exceptionally well.
SARAH WHITELAW: looking at the new sires at the Ready To Run sale; Breeders Cup notes and Rock of Gibraltar’s presence in South Africa.
ROBYN LOUW: Teaching, or rather inspiring, is a responsibility and a rare skill which often goes unappreciated in this electronic day and age. It is a frustration that the most talented people are often unable to articulate and pass on the techniques that make them successful.
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
