Yellow Star’s special Bezrin gelding, who is now nine years old, proved that he still has it when winning his 11th race in his 112th start yesterday at Hollywoodbets Greyville. Gold Circle honoured the gelding with a special blanket when he had has 100th race. Owned by Ashley De Klerk, he was given a great…
St. John Gray and Sherman Brown both rattled off hattricks at Turffontein Inside yesterday and one leg of the double they had together was Dance Class, who has now won five in a row and is threatening to become the next black type earner in a Gray-owned family whose star member was Dance Class’s close…
MIKE and Adam Azzie’s smart weekend winner Bohica’s merit rating has been adjusted from MR99 to MR105, incurring the maximum penalty for a Pinnacle Plate. Azzie has nominated Bohica for the Gr1 Mercury Sprint and said: “His merit rating may be too low. The handicapper offered us a rating of 107, since S’Manga Khumalo rode him…
Act Of War, Willow Magic and Flying The Flag are now well off the mark and getting their fair share of winners over the past week in particular. Act Of War, already an exciting prospect with three winners and two of his fillies already getting Black Type – a recent winner for Paul Matchett, War…
Flying The Flag has had his first winner this afternoon at Fairview for breeder Lee Scribante, owned in partnership with Lee’s brother and bred by the Scribante’s Piemonte Stud. Bought back at the 2019 KZN Yearling Sale for R15 000, the chestnut filly is a half-sister to Black Type and multiple winner Aloysius and placed…
A Group 1 that should have been run two months earlier, a mare who was supposed to be in the breeding shed, an absent trainer, and a jockey making the most of another COVID-19-inspired opportunity. The 2020 Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) was unconventional in many respects, although not in its outcome. Magical was sent off…
The Paul Matchett-trained Summerhill Stud-bred Running Brave clung on to win the KZN Breeders Mile under a fine ride by Muzi Yeni at Hollywoodbets Greyville yesterday and in retrospect she had a lot in her favour despite being sent off at odds of 35/1. The Brave Tin Soldier filly’s class is emphasized by the fact…
Willow Magic produced his second career winner on Wednesday at Hollywoodbets Greyville. Willow Express, a grey colt out of Western Winter mare Delmonica, bred by Stonehill Stud, won third time out for trainer Sean Tarry. He debuted at Kenilworth in the beginning of the year, and had his second start against the now Hong Kong…
Aidan O’Brien believes Magical has improved into her five-year-old season after the mare won her fifth Group 1 race by over four lengths at the Curragh on Sunday. Magical was untroubled when leading throughout at her seasonal reappearance in the Pretty Polly Stakes (2012m) for fillies and mares. The daughter of Galileo strode clear from…
By Frances J. Karon On Sunday, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, and Mrs. John Magnier’s Love became the second consecutive 1000 Guineas winner sired by Coolmore’s big gun Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) — sire of at least one Classic winner from each crop of racing age through 3yos of 2020 — out of a daughter of Pivotal (Polar…