Tres Chic looks the value in the Cape
With all the rain over the Western Cape the province has seen little racing over the past month, so after all the delays and rejigged calendar racing fans, and the organisers, will be delighted…
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Raiders to climb the mountain at Fairview
Jack Milner With all the rain in the Western Cape, Candice Bass-Robinson has opted for a safety net and is carded to run five horses at Fairview on Friday. They clearly mean business as…
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Australian Ace Asfoora worth following at Goodwood
Asfoora can add to her Royal Ascot victory with more glory in the King George Qatar Stakes at Goodwood on Friday. The Australian raider has spent the summer in the United Kingdom based at the Newmarket…
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Opera Singer can return to winning ways
Opera Singer should hit the right note in Thursday’s feature race at Glorious Goodwood with victory in the Qatar Nassau Stakes. Aidan O’Brien’s three-year-old star completed her juvenile campaign in style by storming to a five-length…
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EC MEMORIAL MILE
Henk Steenkamp The new East Cape champion stable of trainer Alan Greeff will be tested by the Cape Town raiders in two feature races at the Fairview Turf track on Friday. the R150 000…
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EC PADDOCK STAKES
Henk Steenkamp The R150 000 Paddock Stakes (race 6), over 1600m, is the first of two listed features at Fairview this Friday. Greeff saddles four runners in the Paddock Stakes, with Luna Halo the…
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Van Zyl runner has the velocity
Jack Milner Few pundits who watched Lucrative win on debut would not have been blown away by the manner of that success. It was her first race, she was at the back of the…
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Lerena set for a flying start to new season
Jack Milner The clock is reset to nil, and we start all over again. The 2024/25 season kicks off on Thursday and the assignment of trying to win the champion jockey or champion trainer…
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Notable Speech to show true worth at Goodwood
Notable Speech can bounce back from the sole defeat of his career last time out to claim the Qatar Sussex Stakes at Goodwood on Wednesday. The three-year-old opened up with three successive wins on the…
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Hereinafter living her best year
Danie Toerien In years to come, Hereinafter will look back at 2024 and declare that this was her year. The six-year-old Futura-mare managed to score just once per annum in the years 2020 until…
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