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Right Royal Racing
A lot has changed since 1861 and the race has grown in stature to become South Africa’s premier weight-for-age contest over 1600m
A lot has changed since 1861 and the race has grown in stature to become South Africa’s premier weight-for-age contest over 1600m
‘The wonderful characteristic of the Silvano progeny is that they also just get better with age and Power King is living proof of that. We earmarked him early for this series and he will be even better as a 4yo. He will thus get his chance for a tilt at Champions Season next year’
The 153rd renewal of the Queen’s Plate on Saturday will once again evoke the passion, drama and sophistication of horseracing at its best.
We have had a minor taste of things to come with wet and grey days in Cape Town this week, but there is some excellent heartwarming racing in the Cape in the months ahead, with the 2013 Winter Series offering prize money of R1 350 000 for the 3yo’s.
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million