Mary’s On The Forbes List
Summerveld trainer Lezeanne Forbes was rewarded for her initiative to keep Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Greyville feature alive
13th October 2019
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Summerveld trainer Lezeanne Forbes was rewarded for her initiative to keep Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Greyville feature alive
Avontuur’s high-riding Danehill stallion Oratorio’s son Cue The Music produced a commendable first run in Hong Kong on Saturday
Boxing amongst the long established big guns in stallion barnmate Var and Maine Chance flagbearer Silvano in the top three of the SA Sires log, Avontuur’s internationally proven sire Oratorio ended the weekend in style
The Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein bred Ezra saluted at Sha Tin racecourse for trainer Tony Millard, jockey Aldo Domeyer and owner William Mocatta
The 2018 East Cape Horse Of The Year Star Burst Galaxy foaled down during last evening’s awards
He is marginally enigmatic, but the Spies Gr1 winner can fly when he is in the mood
While her international Gr1 winning sire was imported to produce classic horses and Met and July winners, the top-class 2018 East Cape Nursery winner Carlita is lethal over the Fairview 1000m!
Avontuur stallion Oratorio has been a model of consistency with a host of diverse winners recently
Van Halen can pace it with the best of them on his day and caught punters wrong -footed when he bounced back from a dismal Cape summer campaign to win the R250 000 Gr3 Man O’War Sprint at Turffontein on Saturday
Leading Gauteng owner Lawrence Wernars celebrated his birthday on Saturday as longshot Divine Odyssey, a horse he bred and part owns, bounded home
A dashing son of an internationally proven sire out of a Gr1 darling of the Cape turf, the 4yo Mardi Gras is a horse going places
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
