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Recent Meetings

VAAL - 23 Dec 2025
Races at VAAL - 23 Dec 2025
- FM 76 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1000m, RAN 62,344 DEAL MAKER (GB) 2022, wins by 0.5 length(s) in 57.33 secs...
- FM 91 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1000m, RAN 80,156 BOSUM BUDDY (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.4 length(s) in 56.76 secs...
- FM 77 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1450m, RAN 62,344 FIRE IN HER SOUL (SAF) 2022, wins by 1.3 length(s) in 86.92 secs...
- FM 95 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1450m, RAN 80,156 HONG KONG (SAF) 2021, wins by 1.5 length(s) in 86.1 secs...
- MR 74 HANDICAP over 1500m, RAN 59,375 FATHER CHRISTMAS (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.9 length(s) in 90.21 secs...
- MR 76 HANDICAP over 2000m, RAN 62,344 ONE MORE STAR (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.8 length(s) in 123.6 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE over 1600m, RAN 71,250 COPPER CLIFF (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.2 length(s) in 97.89 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE (F & M) over 1600m, RAN 62,344 WINDS OF GRACE (SAF) 2021, wins by 2.5 length(s) in 98.81 secs...

News

FIRST AUSTRALIAN WINNER FOR MENDELSSOHN

Coolmore Stud’s one-season shuttler Mendelssohn is off the mark in Australia with Felix The Scat, a facile winner of the Tattersall’s Life Members Hcp (1350m) at Doomben on Saturday. Ridden by Mark Du Plessis for …

BIG WEEKEND FOR THE UNITED STATES

Moutonshoek’s red hot resident sire The United States enjoyed a quick feature race double over the weekend, with the sire’s son Khaya’s Hope claiming Friday’s Listed Ibhayi Stakes and daughter The Charleston taking out Saturday’s …

250 STAKES WINNERS FOR DUBAWI

Lake Lucerne prevailed in deep stretch to earn a hard-fought, two-length victory in the Listed Albert M. Stall Memorial Stakes at Fair Grounds on Saturday. The ultra-consistent Dubawi mare, who has been Stakes-placed at ages …

FIRST WINNER FOR BEHOLDER

When your mother is one of the greatest race mares of the last decade, the expectations can be unspeakably high. And thus, when Spendthrift Farm’s homebred Teena Ella , daughter of the exceptional Beholder , …

FIRST WINNER FOR THE AUTUMN SUN

The Autumn Sun is on the board with his first winner and interestingly Tulsi was also the most expensive filly purchased from the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale last year when snapped up by Glenn Burrows …

Met day double for The United States

Moutonshoek’s resident Galileo horse The United States has been enjoying a purple patch of late with his runners winning good races all over South Africa. The flashy chestnut was at it again on Saturday, when …

Charles Faull’s assessment of Met runners

WORLD SPORTS BETTING MET2023 15 Males and 4 Females , everyone of them a Graded SW , make this the strongest field ever assembled for a WFA race in SAF Racing history All credit to …

FLIGHTLINE NAMED HORSE OF THE YEAR

Unbeaten superstar Flightline was crowned 2022 North American Horse of the Year at the 52nd annual Eclipse Awards banquet in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday night, and also won the Eclipse for Older Dirt Male. …