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“He’s something else. He just knows he’s great” – Felix Coetzee reports back on his visit to Silent Witness
11th April 2017
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“He’s something else. He just knows he’s great” – Felix Coetzee reports back on his visit to Silent Witness
Twitter has made the world smaller in many ways, but the global racing community in particular seems to have found a spot on the platform – and not just for rumour and innuendo. It’s a place of opinion, news, analysis and arguments.
He was a genius in the saddle who rode winners all over the globe and carried the South African brand with pride and glory. His shock retirement has shaken the industry but the legend lives on…
Felix Coetzee is the ultimate professional athlete and one of the world’s great jockeys. He is in the process of recovering from hip replacement surgery and is keen to get back to race riding
It has been a nightmare of a freaky fortnight for South African horseracing. Why is it that the corporate cancer of bad publicity so quickly
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
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
