It was a truncated April, with four race meetings held at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth. However, despite the limited action, there was a lot of quality on display in a month that we also saw two juveniles win against older horses. Headline-grabber of the month was Andrew Fortune, who had his first winners in the region this […]
Following February’s seasonal peak where there were seven race meetings held at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth, resulting in 62 races, there were five meetings held in March, with 39 races staged. This included four meetings at Hollywoodbets Durbanville. A highlight of the month was the Cape Racing Sales March Yearling Sales, which was a resounding success. The […]
On-course commentator Alistair Cohen summed it up on live television when he suggested that it could be the feelgood story of 2025. There were few dry eyes to be found when Chad Little unsaddled on the Lucinda Woodruff-trained Azzurri on 22nd December, marking his first winner since July 2019. The 40-year-old’s problems out of the […]
We welcomed Oisin Murphy to Hollywoodbets Kenilworth! The reigning British champion jockey Oisin Murphy added a sprinkling of stardust to the Cape Summer Festival of Racing when he rode seven horses at the L’Ormarins King’s Plate meeting at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on 4 January. The 29-year-old, who has been crowned British champion four times since 2019 […]
Syndicates are all the rage as more owners pour into racing with the expression “you can own one percent of a horse but have 100 percent of the fun” ringing true. A number of syndicates were able to celebrate success over the Cape Summer Festival of Racing, including the Yuppie Syndicate, with enthusiastic Zac Bloch […]
Three wins from four rides were enough to see Louis Burke walk off with the R12,000 first prize for finishing top of the Hollywoodbets Work Riders Series, which was contested over five legs from November to March. The 29-year-old rode for the Justin Snaith stable and opened up the series by bringing Rafa Bay home […]
The father-son combination of Brett and James Crawford created history at the 7th December meeting at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth when, on the first day that their training partnership becoming official, they won a Gr 1 and a Gr 2 race. First, JP van der Merwe brought the Hollywoodbets Durban July winner Oriental Charm home to take […]
The curtain was drawn on the Cape Racing Summer Festival Of Racing, with Hollywoodbets Kenilworth staging eight feature race days from 23rd November to 16th March. There were eight Gr 1s contested, with the headlines being dominated by two exciting three-year-olds, One Stripe and Eight On Eighteen. Both colts picked up a pair of Gr […]
The name that jumps out when looking at the statistics of winners for the month of February is that among the leading stallions, where Gimmethegreenlight and Oratorio both sired six winners. It was an especially emotional time for the racing industry for all those connected with Oratorio, who was a fabric of Avontuur Stud. February’s […]
January was the peak of the Cape Racing season and with it came a slew of Grade 1 races, including the L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met. In total there were 49 races held over five race meetings at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth. Winners came from 22 different sires representing 28 stud […]
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