#Puerto Manzano

TAB betting has opened for Saturday's Betway Summer Cup and there are many options for betters to make big money. The R2.5-million race will be run over 2000m on the Turffontein Standside track. There are 10 races on the card which also includes the Grade 2 Jonsson Workwear Dingaans for three-year-olds and the Betway Ipi Tombe Stakes for fillies…

Mike de Kock will be looking for his 10 Betway Summer Cup triumph and he certainly holds a potent hand in the R2.5-million Grade 1 race over 2000m at Turffontein Racecourse on Saturday. He has four runners in the 19-horse field, including the top three in the betting. His quartet of runners comprises Hollywoodbets Durban July winner Sparkling…

While they come from different worlds, there are plenty of parallels between MK's Pride's owner Koos Nkale and Ashwin Reynolds, who races the well-beaten favourite Kommetdieding. Both come from humble beginnings and have become popular ambassadors for a sport struggling to reach a wider market and to transform. On the day, it was Koos Nkale's MK's…

TAB Champions Day takes place on Saturday 30 April at Turffontein Racecourse, and the public is encouraged to attend the exciting horseracing that includes the TAB Premier's Champions Challenge and six other graded races. The day is themed around celebrating our champions of horseracing and soccer. Entrance is free, and there will be plenty of food…

The Handicappers were of the unanimous opinion that runner-up PUERTO MANZANO made for the ideal line horse here, leaving him unchanged on a mark of 120. The winner aside, there were no ratings increase for any other runner in this event, but five horses were given a rating's drop. PYROMANIAC is down from 110 to 108, ASTRIX was trimmed from 125 to…

One person who won't need much "charity" on Charity Mile Day at Turffontein Racecourse on Saturday is jockey Keagan de Melo. South Africa's new star of the saddle is able to rely purely on his burgeoning talent and fabulous run of form to get himself - and the punters - into the money. In just the past five days, De Melo, 28, has ridden nine…

When trainer Corné Spies saw the draw for the Topbet Mike O'Connor Joburg Spring Challenge, he may have shouted out "Vat so, jou mooi ding!" His star performer, William Robertson, will jump from pole position and this could result in the four-year-old notching the sixth win of his career. The terms of this newly sponsored 1450m grade 2 event favour…

Rain In Holland won the Grade 2 Wilgerbosdrift SA Oaks at Turffontein on Saturday and in doing so became the fifth Triple Tiara champion. The Sean Tarry-trained filly was pushed all the way to the line by Light Of The Moon but in the end class prevailed, as did Rain In Holland, ridden once again by Richard Fourie. Going off at 9-20, the daughter of…

Some of South Africa's elite thoroughbred champions were among the 48 horses nominated to run in the R2-million Summer Cup when first entries closed on Wednesday. The Grade 1 race over 2000m is scheduled to be run on the Turffontein Standside track on Saturday 26 November. World famous trainer Mike de Kock has entered six runners, including…

The ante-post betting market for this year's Durban July is risk-averse, as they say in the financial pages. Jittery might be a better word, or perhaps poep -scared. Only one horse is quoted in single figures on the bookmakers' boards and remarkable value is for the taking among the 50-plus entries still in the race. The current favourite, at 8-1,…