When it comes to tote pools everyone assumes bigger is better. We know that commingling does a good job for increasing pools – or at least looking big. But for the punter, is bigger better?
This appointment was made in light of the imminent retirement of current General Manager: Racing Operations, Stan Diesel
Suggestions that ‘something is wrong somewhere in Cape’ with 160 entries when KZN gets 700 – and a call for programming to be revisited
Phumelela advise that every measure was taken to keep the meeting alive and a track inspection was held but after two hours of persistent rain and continuous lightning the decision to cancel was made.
As a punter and occasional small owner over the past forty odd years, I keep asking myself a question – where is Cape Town Racing going and what is Phumelela, or any other vested interest , for that matter, doing about it?
Three exciting Challenge series, including a Polytrack challenge, will add plenty of intrigue to Fairview racecourse’s programmes
Issues with the tote system start-up sequencing resulted in TAB’s online betting platform going down for a short period during the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate race meeting at Kenilworth the next day
It is L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate day and no concrete information follow-up has been forthcoming from racing authorities
A power failure in Johannesburg is believed to be behind a total Tab blackout that occurred at or around the start of the Greyville sixth race on Friday evening.
South African horseracing’s poorly serviced and spluttering raceday communications machine got 2016 off to an embrarassing start with punters being caught off-sides with a Fairview first race (and Bipot first leg) objection that very few knew anything about.
More than R278 million will be paid in prize money in Phumelela regions for the racing season 2015-16.
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
