GREEFF SADDLES FAVOURITE
The Alan Greeff-trained Splicethemainbrace is the favourite to win the R150 000 Listed East Cape Fillies Nursery on Friday at the Fairview Turf track. If the unbeaten Master Of My Fate filly can pull it…
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Follow Fourie at Fairview on Friday
Jack Milner Jockey Richard Fourie looks set for another good day at Fairview on Friday. He has a decent ride in the form of Splicethemainbrace in the feature race on the day, the East…
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Crambo can collect in Stayers’ Hurdle
Crambo can complete his swift ascent through the ranks to land the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle on day three of the Cheltenham Festival on Thursday. Fergal O’Brien’s seven-year-old has won five of his eight…
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Quality line-up for Emirates Championship
Ed Marnane A full field of 14 will run in the Emirates Championship at Abu Dhabi on Thursday, the Group 1 highlight of a competitive seven-race card. This season’s renewal has attracted a quality…
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Muzi has high hopes for Greaterix
Jack Milner Those of you who read Muzi Yeni’s column every Saturday morning in Racing Express Update will be aware about the comments he made regarding the debut performance of Greaterix on Classic Day…
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‘Fourie spotting’ leads us to Spring Kiss
Jack Milner We have all kinds of hobbies that involve spotting – Train spotting, plane spotting, car spotting, bird spotting etc. But currently in South African horseracing we have a new kind of hobby…
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Rely on the new main man at Cheltenham
State Man should make the most of the disappointing absence of title holder Constitution Hill and provide trainer Willie Mullins with a fifth victory in the Unibet Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on Tuesday. For…
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Handicapping ratings update
TAB Hawwaam Stakes (Listed) MARAUDING HORDE had his rating increased to 89 from 83 after impressively winning the Listed TAB Hawwaam Stakes over 2000m on Saturday 9 March at the Turffontein Standside track. It…
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Greeff saddles half the winners
Henk Steenkamp The Alan Greeff stable stood tall on a tough day for the punters at a very windy Fairview Polytrack on Tuesday afternoon. Greeff won four of the eight races, Gavin Smith saddled…
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Esther to trouble the colts at Fairview
Jack Milner Esther is one of those runners who is equally at home on both turf and Polytrack which will stand her in good stead at Fairview on Tuesday. After three consecutive runs on…
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