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
Few fillies have attempted, never mind won, the Cape Derby but Wish List became the first this century to do so with an emphatic victory in the historic Kenilworth contest. She quickened from midfield with a smooth run down the rail to win easing up. The winning time of 126.3 seconds with a closing
London News performed incredible feats on the turf in SA and Hong Kong when trained by Alec Laird. Fittingly, Laird trains, Fire Attack s/s 100+ the winner of the 2026 feature race named in London News’ honor. The son of Fire Away put an abortive mission to the Cape behind him – (where he
See It Again s/s 108 stayed on best to outduel longshot Legal Counsel s/s 107 and win the Cape Town Met with The Real Prince s/s 106 running a great race in third, when not quite lasting home. In doing so, See It Again, trained by Justin Snaith, confirmed that he is back to
Trainer David Hayes was recently presented with the Timeform Horse of the Year and Sprinter of the Year award for his awesome galloper, Ka Ying Rising. Ka Ying Rising’s Timeform rating of 135 pegs him as Hong Kong’s highest-rated horse over any distance since the august institution started keeping figures for the “colony” about
The Last Duke s/s 98 earned a neat figure in a sprint at the Vaal on Saturday. He raced handy in a short field and sustained a good gallop throughout. But he was somewhat fortunate that Zalatoris s/s 97 + managed to get caught in a pocket on the rail and came up narrowly
Splittheeights s/s 102 took out the Gauteng Guineas at Turffontein on Saturday. He finished too fast for Grand Empire s/s 101 and the consistent, Trust s/s 101 thereby confirming recent progress after winning the Got the Greenlight Stakes with a figure of 99. The victor is sired by Vercingetorix (as indeed was the second