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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 – recently retired after a magnificent career at stud, which followed a singular campaign on the ra...

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 and relax its new rule, then threatening High Court action, citing restraint of trade and restricti...