Felix Coetzee
With 8 Gold Cup trophies, Felix Coetzee is South Africa’s undisputed Gold Cup king. We get him to talk us through his record-breaking wins.
1st August 2017
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With 8 Gold Cup trophies, Felix Coetzee is South Africa’s undisputed Gold Cup king. We get him to talk us through his record-breaking wins.
Callan Murray notches his second Gr3 Hong Kong win aboard SA-bred – and trained – Horse Of Fortune
South African champion apprentice of last season Callan Murray broke the ice early in his Hong Kong stint
A former Cape-based galloper stole the spotlight and the purse on a record day at Sha Tin on Sunday
SA shines at Seoul as Tony Millard and Karis Teetan win the Gr1 Korea Sprint with Super Jockey
Pablo Zeta still going strong at 20 and enjoying his retirement at Klawervlei Stud
The South African horseracing industry will be united behind a former Glen Puller-trained Sophomore Sprint winner in Sunday’s HK$20 million Audemars Piguet Gr1 QEII Cup
He was only 8 years old when his Dad first rode in Hong Kong
Lot 221 Savannah Cat, a filly by Fort Wood out of Kapen Cat, was consigned by Lammerskraal Stud and became the most expensive filly ever sold in South Africa when the hammer fell at R4,75 million
There will be plenty for South African fans to cheer about on Dubai World Cup night as Tony Millard saddles Super Jockey in the Golden Shaheen and Mike de Kock sends out a total of 7 runners, including homegrown favourites Star Empire, Pylon and Via Africa
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
