It’s The Guineas Jim, But Not As We Know It
Wonderful weather, wonderful horses and wonderful racing. Why then did it just not feel like the Guineas?
20th December 2016
11 Comments
Wonderful weather, wonderful horses and wonderful racing. Why then did it just not feel like the Guineas?
Sixteen long years spanned trainer Vaughan Marshall’s patient pause between Gr1 Cape Guineas’ drinks
Vaughan Marshall’s exciting Captain Al colt Always In Charge was an impressive winner of a high-quality Graduation Plate at Kenilworth on Tuesday
Trainer Vaughan Marshall is looking for history to repeat itself at Kenilworth today with a family close to his heart
Vaughan Marshall has a veritable armada of three-year-old talent to go to war with this season – including Grade 1 winners Always In Charge and The Secret Is Out
A jockey has joined a leading Cape trainer in imploring the racing operator to take responsibility and be accountable for track issues in KZN rather than ‘denial or pretending that there isn’t a problem’
Cape trainer Vaughan Marshall enjoyed the rare pleasure of training both the sire and dam of the very smart The Secret Is Out, who notched her first Gr1 success at Scottsville on Saturday
The well related and exciting Captain Al filly, The Secret Is Out, came home unchallenged to win
The Cape raiding combination of jockey MJ Byleveld and trainer Vaughan Marshall were on the mark with a 100% strike double at Fairview on Friday
“It’s been a tough time. I’ve been slated and called everything in the book. I’ve just had to keep my chin up and carry on digging…” says Mike Robinson
The great Cape racing support storm rages on, and with 77 runners carded for the eight race programme at Durbanville today, the jury is out on the off-season apathy and on finding a solution to increase field subscriptions
The charge originated from comments made by Jockey van Niekerk during a post-race interview following the running of Race 2 at Hollywoodbets Durbanville Racecourse on Wednesday 26 March
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
