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Mike Moon Champions Day at Turffontein on Saturday boasts an epic showdown between three of the turf’s newest stars in the 4Racing Premier’s Champions Challenge – namely, Summer Pudding, Got The Greenlight and Malmoos. Expect plenty of action when Lions Head and Magical Midlands go up against each other. Picture: Lo Chun Kit /Getty Images   The racing on...

Picture: iStock A remarkable 63 trainers from 12 countries have had 158 horses accepted to compete in the nine-meeting Dubai World Cup Carnival, which culminates in the World Cup itself on 27 March. Of course, the 2020 Cup meeting had to be scrapped as Covid descended on the world. That and diminished racing and stakes throughout the world have sparked keener interest than usual in the mega prizes on offer in the desert. Among ...

He has further, persuasive, arguments. “Initially we aimed to run in the Grade 1 Majorca Stakes on Met day, but then we drew 20 out of 22,” he says. “I analysed the Majorca field and saw it was an exceptionally strong line-up of fillies and mares. It would be very difficult to overcome such a wide draw at Kenilworth against that quality of opposition. “Also, Princess Calla is crying out for more ground, so the 2000m of the Met is more suitable than the Majorca 1600m.” Along with other...

Mike Moon The high quality of racehorse stepping onto the Kenilworth turf this weekend is enough to pull in most racing fans, but extra bait of a predicted R10-million Pick 6 should hook even the most jaded punter. Picture: File The chunky Pick 6 is on the Saturday meeting of the two-day L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Festival �...

Sponsored by: A.N. & The Honorable Mrs. G. R. Fosters 5-year-old homebred Belgarion, a winner of his last six races, headlines a field of nine runners entered for Saturdays one-mile LOrmarins Queens Plate (G1) at Kenilworth Racecourse in Cape Town, South Africa. The race winner will earn an automatic berth into the $2 million FanDuel Breeders Cup Mile presented by PDJF (G1) through the Breeders Cup Challenge Series. One race prior to the Queens Plate, Mauritzfontein Ltd.s unbeaten 5-y...

PREMIUM! Groom Patrick Mange with Summer Pudding on 25 November 2020, at Turffontein Racecourse in Johannesburg. Picture: Michel Bega The race card for this weekend’s Queen’s Plate Festival at Kenilworth is littered with the progeny of five-time champion stallion Silvano – not least among them Summer Pudding, South African racing’s newest star, in the Grade 1 Cartier Paddock Stakes. The story of Silvano â€...

Image for illustration. Picture: Tracey Lee Stark Tough decisions have been foisted upon South Africa’s intrepid knights of the irons by the latest coronavirus lockdown rules, which oblige them to select one of four provinces in which to base themselves and race for most of the month of January. The jocks have not taken this decree lying down – first pleading, in vain, with the National Horseracing Authority to have a heart...