At Last!
The bridesmaid is now a wife! Sean Tarry’s hardknocking 4yo Trophy Wife finally cracked a long overdue stakes win on Saturday
2nd May 2016
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The bridesmaid is now a wife! Sean Tarry’s hardknocking 4yo Trophy Wife finally cracked a long overdue stakes win on Saturday
Trainer Mike Azzie and jockey Karl Zechner maintained their feature winning streak at Turffontein on Saturday as the Var mare Easy Game ran on best to secure her first stakes win
It had to only be a matter of time before Mike De Kock would grab a Cape Summer Of Champions Gr1 trophy and the multiple champion trainer did it in style courtesy of a superb display of big race riding and timed-to–the-minute preparation to score his fourth win in the Cape’s premier classic
South Africa’s 2014/15 Zimbabwe champion trainer Corne Spies is a master of the sand and he produced the 4yo Jo Malone in a galloping mood after an eight week rest to score a runaway victory in the R125 000 Sandy Beach Stakes
The rampant Joey Ramsden made it another glorious feature winning weekend. And while the honour roll of the local Derby has not produced any real stars over the past few years, the classy St Tropez looks very progressive and could prove the exception to the rule
Mary Slack said, “I feel that the role of fillies and mares in the breeding of champions has always been underestimated, and I believe that the Triple Tiara will both reward excellence and emphasise their importance to the success of our breeding industry.”
A top-class display of pacesetting race-riding by Weichong Marwing would have given Alec Laird’s Argentinian-bred BoucletteTop a major confidence booster for the Highveld Season as he went all the way in first-time blinkers
Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction and the locally bred son of a teaser is proving the old adage that horses don’t know their price and can’t read their catalogue page
Wilgerbosdrift has supplemented Lot 230, Ely Beach, by Tiger Ridge out of an own sister to Kildonan
CEO Tom Callaghan is pleased with double digit growth, but admits smaller vendors have struggled
Kotzen and Kildonan the Kings of Fairview as Rosier wins East Cape Filies Nursery
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
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
