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NICKY Henderson and Paul Webber are among the senior figures in jump racing to back fellow trainer Mick Easterby in his call for the BHA to review a new rule that will enforce the wearing of horseshoes on all...

JUSTIN Snaith has moved into the Top 30 on the TRC World Trainers' Rankings after his top-notch performance at the L'Ormarins Queen's Plate Festival. He was also named TRC 'Trainer Of The Week'. The latest rankings show Snaith having improved...

IN the aftermath of anoter succesful L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Festival, we publish today our Turf Talk Newsletter interview with Gaynor Rupert. The L'Ormarins Queen's Plate is now firmly established as a racing and social highlight, and it’s catching on as...

VOTING to determine the first four equine inductees into the SA Hall of Fame opened on Friday. It and closes on Monday 7 January at midnight. To vote, go to tabonline.co.za and click on The South African Hall of Fame...

AN impassioned call for the use of the whip in racing to be banned was rejected by the British Horseracing Authority on Wednesday. Respected journalist Matthew Syed said in his column in The Times newspaper that the racing industry was...

THE racing and breeding industries are constantly looking for information and answers from Adrian Todd, who heads the drive for open exports of our thoroughbreds on behalf of the SA Equine Health & Protocols (SAEHP) the implementation arm of...

Here is part 2 of Turf Talk’s tribute to Peter Kannemeyer, who died on Monday. It’s taken from Legends of The Turf Volume 2: (Createspace, 2014) by Charl Pretorius and deals mainly with PK’s personal side. In part 1, retired...

FORMER top trainer Peter Kannemeyer passed away at his Milnerton home on Monday, aged 85. Turf Talk editor Charl Pretorius remembers him as “perhaps the most interesting horseman I have ever interviewed” and in tribute to “PK” we publish...

IN addition to its routine testing programme, The National Horseracing Authority (NHA) has again this year embarked on an extensive, additional and narrowly focused set of tests for erythropoietin (EPO) and growth hormone. Blood samples taken from approximately 170 of...

THE link between the cause and effect of the so-called speed gene has been proved, according to research published by Professor Emmeline Hill in conjunction with scientists from Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. It was Hill's Equinome that...