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 …).
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
Outstanding colt Nepotism (Brutal) scored one of the most remarkable Gr1 wins by a 2YO on an Australian racetrack in recent memory
