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A number of trainers at the Summerveld training centre in Shongweni, KwaZulu-Natal, have expressed grave concerns about horses bleeding from their noses as an apparent result of toxic fumes emanating from the Shongweni Landfill Site, managed by Enviroserv, the...

LEADING young South African jockeys Callan Murray and Grant van Niekerk have been granted part-licences to ride in Hong Kong from 16 July 2018 to 17 February 2019 and both will be taking up the new challenge. The Hong Kong...

THE greatest soccer show on earth kicks off at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on Thursday afternoon 14 June and TAB is offering four exciting once-off bets on the football showpiece that will give anybody the chance to win...

MALCOLM Fried, Investec's International Head Of Marketing, speaks to Andrew Bon about this weekend's 2018 Investec Derby, the goings-on behind the scenes and what is planned to make the event even more special this year. https://youtu.be/1mdXMZNKtb8

RUNNERS trained at the Randjesfontein centre north of Johanesburg have been withdrawn from the Sunday meeting at Turffontein meeting following a strike by grooms based at the centre, led by members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)  Trainer Mike de...

IT is not official at this time, but word from the 37th Asian Racing Conference in Seoul, South Korea, is that South Africa, and specifically Cape Town, will host the 38th renewal of the grand bi-ennial conference in 2020. South...

JAMES Goodman, who felt humiliated and hard done by when he handed in his Trainers’ Licence following an NHA Inquiry last year, says amazing new horizons have opened to him and that he is busier and in fact happier...

BARRY IRWIN, the controversial CEO of Team Valor International, a long-time supporter of South African horseracing (photo, right), has decided to exit the local industry and will be selling his racing and breeding stock at training centres and stud...

PHUMELELA Gaming has responded to the Phindi Kema (photo) complaint with the Public Protector against the Gauteng Provincial Government for allegedly exceeding its authority by transferring five racetracks located in other provinces to Phumelela. Phumelela’s response states: “Ms Kema has...

LAFFITT Pincay, Jr. the US Hall Of Fame jockey who retired in April 2003 following a broken neck sustained in a spill coming down Santa Anita's hillside turf course, has swung his leg over a horse for the first...