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A racing administrator who talks from the heart and with plenty of sincerity – and he is actually a punter, too!
23rd November 2015
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A racing administrator who talks from the heart and with plenty of sincerity – and he is actually a punter, too!
With South Africa’s breeding industry suffering significant declines over the past twenty years, our primary responsibility is to local industry and we believe that the opening of the export markets is the only realistic way of reversing this trend
Lack of accountability and arbitrary hiking of tariffs – and they are punishing the people who are contributing most. Worst still is that they don’t bother to inform owners – they just put up the notice on their website
The question of the determination of champion status for trainers and jockeys in the regional awards were discussed by Paul Lafferty and James Goodman on Monday evening’s Winning Ways show
“Hey Azzie – you must be bloody good to make me pay R400 000 for a Brave Tin Soldier.” Markus Jooste’s jovial quip to Mike Azzie at the Ready To Run sale may yet prove to be cheap talk!
‘Racing Vets charge like wounded buffalo – because they have all these kids to put through private schools.’
Peter Gibson appears on Winning Ways to discuss plans for a state of the art lock down quarantine facility as an alternative to the current Western Cape free zone strategy
An obviously frustrated Mike De Kock has made a few radical suggestions about our export protocols after an AHS outbreak has again limited the movement of horses out of Randjesfontein
“Have you ever been offered money to make sure a horse doesn’t win?” – Piere Strydom gets asked some serious questions about riding, golf, money and more
Despite no rule applying, horses are being suspended left, right and centre by the National Horseracing Authority
I travelled to the US, the UK and Australia in October and as a horseracing fanatic I used every minute to enjoy their coverage of the sport
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
Leading South African-based owners Hollywood Racing have broken new ground with the acquisition of five yearlings during the Book 1 session at Karaka this week
