Many people engrossed in racing also so happen to love other sports. Though the technical, tactical and emotional aspects vary across different games, there is a commonality/cross-over appeal to all types of sporting endeavour. Punters, who are likely to follow and bet on multiple sports, and industry participants, such as trainers and jockeys, may,
Here are the five best speed figures of a horse currently racing in Cape Town: 97, 96, 96, 98 & 100, attained over sprints. Nothing remarkable about that – simply a consistent performer who runs in the band between 96 and 100. Those scores were recorded at Kenilworth and Durbanville on soft and good
Sunday racing was on the Polytrack at Greyville. The surface plays differently to regular turf racing where, most often, finishing speed carries the day. What works best on the Poly are stalk and pounce tactics. Obviously, there are variations, even occasional extremes to that style, but generally racing handy at a sustained gallop then
Note to Self s/s 109 just edged out stable mate, Wish List s/s 109 in a thrilling Durban July, dominated by trainer Justin Snaith, as the market anticipated. Wish List raced quite handy under Andrew Fortune whilst Note To Self was positioned towards the rear early, before Richard Fourie cleverly made a sweeping move
One of SA’s top racehorses, Questioning s/s 114 won the Gold Challenge at Greyville for his fourth win in a row, and 11th overall from 26 starts. Vaughan Marshall has really got the best out of him as a five-year-old; this season winning the Matchem Stakes, Diadem, an A Stakes, the Drill Hall and
The Daily News and the Woolavington generate debate each year as they can be important pointers to the Durban July. The races run Saturday at Greyville could not have gone more differently. Wish List scraped home by a whisker over Minogue in a patently false run Woolavington, whilst Star Major came from last with
The Greyville track was running relatively fast for Saturday’s lucrative stakes races. Final times were correspondingly quick as were the come home sectionals with most of the winners flashing through 400m to finish fractions in around 22 seconds. Speed figure handicappers take all this into account and adjust for the way the track is
The results on Champions Day 2026 were particularly formful with a succession of favorites winning. Whilst a few were capsized (Gimme a Vodka, One Eye on Vegas, Hazy Dazy) the “script” was followed in most of the stake’s races. From a speed figure perspective, some excellent numbers were recorded by Double Grand Slam s/s
Asiye Phambili s/s 101+ is hard to resist when she is in the right frame of mind. She has run some smart numbers (103/104) in her career, and she was full value when romping in the Dennis Drier Poinsettia Stakes G3 at Scottsville on Sunday afternoon. Commentator Peters’ called it a "stampede" with 300m
Hong Kong based, Ka Ying Rising showed again that he is a world beater when romping in the G1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup earning a stellar speed score of 124! His virtues have been extolled many times before – for a true speed figure fanatic this sort of number is about as rare as