National Pride
ROBYN LOUW: I know I covered the Grand National last week, but it was such an interesting race this year that I thought I’d write about it again.
11th April 2013
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ROBYN LOUW: I know I covered the Grand National last week, but it was such an interesting race this year that I thought I’d write about it again.
ROBYN LOUW: The first Saturday in April heralds the annual pilgrimage to Aintree for the race that stops the English Nation
ROBYN LOUW: It’s been a busy weekend with a win by upcoming superstar Sedge and the CPYS Book 2 sale
ROBYN LOUW: R7.5 milion up for grabs with the newly launched 3YO Challenge Series, the exclusive reserve of graduates of the CPYS Book 2.
ROBYN LOUW: In 1974 Tony Kalmanson established Varsfontein Stud just outside Paarl and the Kalmanson name has been a fixture on the local racing landscape ever since.
ROBYN LOUW: I kicked off my week with a chat to Richard Maxwell one of the world’s leading Horse Whisperers
ROBYN LOUW: The internet is a weird, wide and wonderful place and attracts an incredibly diverse mix of people and so I found Folly – a spanking good read.
ROBYN LOUW: Now he’s the Met winner and on top of the world. These are the stories we keep coming back for.
ROBYN LOUW: “They say money doesn’t buy happiness. But it does buy books. And that’s sort of the same thing.”
ROBYN LOUW: Queen’s Plate 2013. I was a little nervous after a couple of days of rain and then a pumping South Easter, but the racing and weather gods conspired to deliver a perfect days racing.
ROBYN LOUW: Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual. Which obviously adds enormously to the challenge and the mystique, but sometimes an instruction manual might not be all bad.
Big race sponsors Hollywoodbets have set the pace in the pre-nominations ante-post betting market for the 2025 Hollywoodbets Durban July with defending champion Oriental Charm topping the opening board
In our weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, including some slow-run Grade 1 contests at Turffontein
