Alnwick – A Slice of Sprinting History
Some Cape Flying Championship history and a horse called Alnwick
23rd January 2014
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Some Cape Flying Championship history and a horse called Alnwick
The death of former leading first season sire, Tiger Ridge, is a setback to the South African breeding industry.
Capetown Noir, winner of Saturday’s Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, gave his late, great sire, Western Winter, a 4th win in the Queen’s Plate
The past weekend was one of those where you wish you were never born. It got worse with having to take horses out as no jockey was available
The Dubai racing season opened last Thursday with a 6 race card. Carded aboard Paschendale from the Al Muhairi yard, was Andrew Nienaber.
One of the greatest racehorses in North American history, Seattle Slew was one of just 11 horses in history to win the US Triple Crown
Ramsden on the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and some stick for the Greyville track
SA’s first Gr1 race of 2013 was the Maine Chance Farms Paddock Stakes. Beach Beauty was a warm favourite to prevail and duly did so.
I thought it worth a quick reminder that the NHA will be holding their 132nd Annual General Meeting at Turffontein on 13 January 2014.
There were highs, lows and some laughs along the way, but the Year of the Snake seems to have been a year of loss.
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
