Despite glancing behind in disbelief, JP van der Merwe never stopped riding all the way to the lollipop – as the winner drifted out marginally in the process of his enthusiastic, albeit largely unnecessary, urgings
In a move that has been labelled unsporting in certain quarters, with under 24 hours to gate time, there is still no confirmation as to who will ride the Paddock Stakes winner in one of South Africa’s premier races
Arriving on course for the Queen’s Plate has become like visiting an old friend – there are always enough familiar touches to make you feel at home, but as special friends always make an effort, you know there will be quirky new additions to look forward to, to make each day memorable.
The Alec Laird trained Smart Call will take her place in the Gr1 J&B Met after making a sensational local debut to score a superb win in the R1 million Maine Chance Farms Gr1 Paddock Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday
Trainer Alec Laird took his next step towards a bid for Paddock Stakes glory when the Ideal World filly Smart Call came home strongly to win the R400 000 Gr2 Ipi Tombe Challenge
The next chapter towards a prospective Paddock Stakes showdown of epic proportions between our top 3yo fillies of last season, could be written at Turffontein on Tuesday evening
A first and fourth in the Gr1 Woolavington as Mauritzfontein Stud celebrate the ‘arrival’ of their exciting stallion Ideal World
This time last week we were looking forward to the 163rd renewal of the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
