I have been utterly captivated by Royal Ascot. Itt’s been a hugely pleasurable experience.During the course of last year, frustration about the generally poorstate of horse racing in South Africa amidst a cloud of apparent inaction and apathy led me to jot down a few thoughts on positive steps that could be taken
The £400,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes over six furlongs (1200 metres) is the highlight of the fifth and final day of the 2011 Royal Ascot meeting. Godolphin have warned that ante-post favourite Delegator will only run if the ground is suitable.
Fame And Glory will face 14 rivals as he bids to assume the mantle of his former stablemate Yeats in the £250,000 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Thursday. Aidan O’Brien’s five-year-old has won four Group One races in a celebrated career to date, and now steps up to the marathon trip of two and a half miles.
Ex-Australian So You Think is a red-hot favourite to land his first British Group 1 when he faces six rivals in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday.
Sweet Sanette, the Jallad mare bred by Highlands, faces her greatest test when lining up in the Gr1 King’s Stand Stakes run over five furlongs at Royal Ascot.
Superstars abound at Royal Ascot this week but perhaps most eyes will be on Frankel when Sir Henry Cecil’s superstar defends his unbeaten record in the St James’s Palace Stakes on Tuesday.
No fewer than eleven nations are represented across the entries for Royal Ascot’s seven Group One races
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
