Phumelela Results 2017
Alec Hogg chats to Phumelela CEO Rian du Plessis about Supabet, cost cutting strategies and a new Chairman
7th October 2017
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Alec Hogg chats to Phumelela CEO Rian du Plessis about Supabet, cost cutting strategies and a new Chairman
‘Our position remains that the cost and additional wear on our turf surfaces is substantial’ – Du Plessis
The Queensberry Rules were the first to mandate boxing gloves in fights. The term is also frequently used to refer to sportsmanship and fair play. Seems racing could do with reviewing the rule book
Popular Cape owner and breeder Brian Finch has cited personal reasons for his resignation
Where is the horse in our discourse? We have administrators and track managers and bean counters, rather than ex jockeys, ex trainers and folks who know the feel of leather in their hands and whose bodies carry reminders of what happens when the basics are not adhered to.
Last Tuesday’s abortive meeting on the revamped Vaal Classic track has caused some red faces all round
Treating your stakeholders like mugs in these tough times is a guaranteed recipe for disaster. Something must surely change…
On Friday, 10 March 2017, the Progressive Movement of Grooms staged a peaceful march to Phumelela’s Turffontein head office to hand over a memorandum
Phumelela are “taking South African horseracing to the world” by sponsoring a race meeting at Markopoulo Racetrack in Athens
The Progressive Movement of Grooms is to stage a peaceful march to Turffontein on Friday, 10 March to deliver a memorandum to racing operator, Phumelela
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
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
