#Cape Guineas

Largent, shown winning the 2020 Fort Lauderdale Stakes, returns from an 11-month layoff to contest Saturday's Tropical Turf at Gulfstream Park and could be considered for the Grade 1 Pegasus Turf with a good effort. Photo by Ryan Thompson, courtesy of Gulfstream Park Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A potential prep for the Pegasus World Cup Turf in Florida, a…

Racing in the Western Cape reverts to the Southern Suburbs venue on Saturday where the Gr3 Cape Classic for three-year-olds over 1400m tops the nine-race card, with three minor features presenting some testing options. The Hollywoodbets Punters' Challenge has proven a hit since being introduced in the Cape and on Wednesday one desperately unlucky…

Below are detailed notes on the individual lots: Lot 3: Cadenza - colt by Rafeef out of Casadesus: By the same sire as Gr1 winners Aragosta, Master Archie and Thunderstruck, as well as recent G2 Dingaans winner Union Square, Cadenza hails from a truly exceptional female line. She is out of the smart race mare Casadesus, who won three times up to…

It may be more than a coincidence that both these crack 3yo's chose to challenge themselves in open company, before taking on the best of their own year. Tony Mincione writes that anyone wondering if Brett Crawford's young filly, the rated 85, was being over-faced in the Summer Bowl (a stepped handicap for Fillies and Mares which capped horses 110…

The Breeders' Cup Challenge series heads to Kenilworth racecourse in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday with two qualifying races - one of which has a new name. With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the former Queen's Plate is reverting to its previous name of the King's Plate (G1). Its winner will have automatic entry to the Breeders' Cup Mile…

Over 15000 people, dominated by groups of happy families, thronged through the newly painted gates of Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday to enjoy a day of top notch horseracing against the carnival backdrop of the local favourites, Die Kaapse Klopse, also known as the Hollywoodbets Cape Town Street Parade. It was a day that had even the…

Candice Bass-Robinson comes across as a bubbly blonde, but racing folk are well aware this determined woman is anything but ditzy. She inherited a racing dynasty from one of the modern legends of the game, but there's no hint that she doesn't have the skill, knowledge and nous to be every bit as good a trainer of racehorses as her father…

As good as Sea Cottage and Horse Chestnut? That is hallowed turf that pundits are venturing onto in their assessment of a young horse called Charles Dickens. These are not racetrack BS artists, but respected people who know the game inside out - like Charles Faull, who described Charles Dickens's victory in a strong Allowance Plate at Kenilworth on…

Charles Dickens from the Candice Bass-Robinson yard takes his place in Race 7 and he is the best bet on the card. He is unbeaten from four starts to date. He was super-impressive when winning the Grade 3 Cape Classic over this distance on the winter course last time. It must be noted that the form of that race has been franked. This is a prep run…

Taking on five accomplished older campaigners and giving 9 kgs to a promising, albeit less experienced peer, the handsome chestnut never came off the bit as he cruised home to win the R130000 Allowance Plate over 1400m with contemptuous ease under regular pilot Aldo Domeyer. He is now undefeated in five starts and has been described by his…

Rested some 16 weeks since winning the Gr1 Premiers Champion Stakes at the end of last term, Cousin Casey gave his 15 classic rivals 2kgs and an emphatic walloping when he strode to victory in the R500000 Gr2 Cape Punters Cup at a sun-drenched Hollywoodbets Kenilworth. It was a second consecutive victory in the race previously known as the Concorde…

The R150000 Listed Hollywoodbets Settlers Trophy ended well enough for most punters with the tote favourite winning it to save those that included the fancied Baratheon who kicked the back gates of the starting stalls and caught his leg in the back gates, before being withdrawn. It was a terrific day on the racing and social front, with the feature…

The Drill Hall Stakes at Greyville on Saturday officially launches KwaZulu-Natal's winter season - nowadays officially called the Champions Season and making it indistinguishable from all the other Champions Whatevers. Thankfully it's still the Drill Hall Stakes, a time-honoured 1400m Grade 2 race named after the elegant military building in the…

Acknowledged as South Africa's premier classic, the stakes-boosted R2 million Grade 1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas will headline a bumper programme at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday, 17 December 2022. Sponsored for the first time by leading sports betting operator, Hollywoodbets, the prize money for the time honoured 3-year-old clash has been…

Thanks to a R15 million stakes sponsorship by Hollywoodbets, Cape Racing has announced a minimum 35% increase in stakes for the coming season. Photo: Supplied Thanks to a R15 million stakes sponsorship by Hollywoodbets, Cape Racing has announced a minimum 35% increase in stakes for the coming season. Photo: Supplied Thanks to a R15 million stakes…

Justin Snaith's Grade 1 Jonsson Workwear Cape Derby champion Pomp And Power has firmed into 14/1 in the ante-post betting for the Grade 1 Hollywoodbets Durban July to be contested at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday, 2 July. The 2200m contest, billed as Africa's greatest horseracing event, has taken on a new dimension of intrigue with the news…

Among them, are some very well bred members of Drakenstein Stud's exciting young sire Gold Standard, whose eagerly awaited first two-year-olds race this season. Below are some of the Kotzen trained Gold Standard two-year-olds - and they look exciting prospects indeed! Star Of Gold is a Gold Standard colt whose dam, Looking At Stars, is a daughter…