It’s Written In The Stars…
There are no two ways about it – Mick Goss, the face and the force behind the mighty Summerhill Stud – has the gift of the gab.
1st November 2012
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There are no two ways about it – Mick Goss, the face and the force behind the mighty Summerhill Stud – has the gift of the gab.
Recent overseas results proved again that there are few better judges of horseflesh in this game than former champion jockey Basil Marcus.
SARAH WHITELAW: So who are the young generation of stallions who could yet turn the tide for a weakened band of US sires?
LANCE BENSON: A few leading local owners have stepped forward and put theirweight behind sponsoring feature races in this Cape’s Sizzling Summer Season.
SARAH WHITEALW: Frankel, the winner of all 14 of his starts, joins just a handful of great champions to retire unbeaten.
SARAH WHITELAW: Galileo is without question a great stallion, and is showing promise as a tremendous sire of sires. However, it is early days yet to concede that he is a better stallion than his sire, Sadler’s Wells.
ROBYN LOUW: They say a week is a long time in politics – it turns out racing is not too far behind
LANCE BENSON: The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity. Cape feels like the awkward child that nobody really wanted,. and now ironically finds itself at the centre of some rather unwanted attention and veiled custody battles at the Competition Tribunal
SARAH WHITELAW: Does size count – theories regarding the height of successful racehorse; some Arc facts and Solemia’s win
LANCE BENSON: In the current local climate of pessimism and doom and gloom, the United Kingdom and Ireland’s most watched dedicated racing channel is forecast to have a record year in 2012
ROBYN LOUW: Boobs and racing! I don’t often get the opportunity to start a column like that and figured I had to grab the opportunity with both hands (oh dear …).
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
