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A Look In The Mirror
A BHA report has highlighted a number of eye-opening findings, including the suggestion the body lacks the expertise to properly judge the merits of a given ride…
A BHA report has highlighted a number of eye-opening findings, including the suggestion the body lacks the expertise to properly judge the merits of a given ride…
SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena rode his first Hong Kong winner in his current stint at Sha Tin on Sunday
“Dubai remains a profitable place to race and we’ve shown so often how the relatively cheap South African runners can come here and earn good stakes – a Maiden Plate can be worth near half a million rands – you don’t get that anywhere else!”
Christophe Soumillon has narrowly avoided a ban covering the Dubai World Cup meeting after pleading guilty to attempting to weigh out with a non-approved safety vest at Meydan’s Super Saturday fixture
Two jockeys are merely warned for not riding their horses out – the one ran second, the other fifth – yet another jockey salutes on an easy winner, and he gets slapped with a R1500 fine?
Our regular weekend print issue snippets feature
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