A little like fax machines and good manners, excuses about bad draws at the New Durbanville are oh so yesterday.
Sabine Plattner Racing trainer Andre Nel prefers to give his pe-race comments on his first-timers and rested horses on the course on raceday.
While KZN is the only province in SA offering Barrier Trials, the concept, is catching on in the UK since launched in 2015
The marketing rationale in the thinking of having an overseas racecaller on one of our major days is flawed in intself
Phipps-bred Gr3 winner Fire Away (War Front) is headed to stud in the Cape sometime in the future
If the slow pace, predicted by many, materializes he might well outsprint them all – assuming that he’s not too far back!
Durbanville has edged up the world’s best racehorse rankings.Well, let’s pretend so anyway
He flies out shortly to Mary Slack’s Abington Place Stables at Newmarket in the UK for the next step of his global campaign
There has been some speculation as to whether Takingthepeace will stay the 2450m of the SA Oaks in her bid for SA Triple Tiara glory
Horse racing in Mauritius retired over two years ago – so says the racing regulator
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
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