News Briefs

November 22, 2020
Sparkling Water, easy. (JC Photos).

A bright debut from Silvano filly

SPARKLING Water made a good winning debut at Turffontein Saturday, details below: RACE 1: MAIDEN PLATE (F & M), 1450m WINNER: SPARKLING WATER PEDIGREE: 3bF Silvano […]
November 21, 2020
Anathi Feni with Push Off.

Young Feni is a lot like dad

MEET Anathi Feni, who looks after, among others, Mary Slack’s import Push Off (IRE), a fluent winner at the Vaal this week. Anathi is the son […]
November 18, 2020
Oscar Wilde ran on well. (JC Photos).

Oscar Wilde arrived late on principle

IRISH playwright Oscar Wilde said: “I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time”. His namesake arrived on the […]
November 16, 2020
Charles, handily weighted.

Final Summer Cup log

THERE here have been no changes to the log for the R1-million World Sports Betting Gauteng Summer Cup over 2000m at Turffontein on Saturday 28 November. […]
November 2, 2020
Lady D'Oro wins.

Three wins in 10 days for new partnership

THE partnership of Mathew de Kock and Robbie Griffiths enjoyed an excellent first ten days, with three winners in the bag and also a sixth in […]
October 29, 2020
Fired Up.

Vaal comments for Thursday 29/10

THE following are Mike’s comments for the Vaal meeting to be held on Thursday, 29 October: *PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A TIPPING SERVICE. COMMENTS […]
October 26, 2020
Hard Squeeze, easy winner.

Mat and Robbie Griffiths’ first partnership success

THE partnership of Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock had their first winner when Hard Squeeze, a filly by Hard Spun, won the first at Echuca […]
October 24, 2020
Peaceontherocks, a winning chance today.

Voice notes, Turffontein Saturday

SATURDAY racing is at Turffontein and Mike de Kock has sent through some voice notes for the stable’s runners today, as below: RACE 1 TRF2510R1 RACE […]
October 20, 2020
Mathew de Kock

Mat’s first runners Down Under

MATHEW de Kock will saddle his first two runners in Australia on Wednesday when Mr Money Bags and Token Spirit line up at Geelong outside Melbourne. […]