11th May 2020
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Black Caviar has safely delivered her third foal, a filly by Snitzel
Horses are like paintings: people will only pay what they think they are worth and that was very much the case a couple of weeks ago
Australian trainer Peter Moody has described a six-month suspension as “a great disappointment” but declared it was unlikely to end his career in racing.
“Maybe I’d been too successful for too long for my own good and hadn’t looked at rectifying practices within my stable which probably wouldn’t have allowed this to happen…”
Is there safety in numbers or is an almighty broom about to sweep through Australia’s training ranks?
This will be a major test of Victoria’s relatively new ‘cheating in sport’ laws
Hearings seem to proceed slowly and the line between fact and fiction, right and wrong, becomes clouded with protracted debate. All this happens while punters press on not knowing who to believe and heavily suspecting they’ve been had.
The South African racing public has warmed to the achievements of Australian equine heroine Black Caviar. And ironically it was a South African jockey that
Pietermaritzburg may well feel like a million miles from Melbourne Down Under. But two top sprinters retained their respective unbeaten records in a great weekend
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
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
