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Recent Meetings

VAAL - 4 Dec 2025
Races at VAAL - 4 Dec 2025
- FM 78 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1200m, RAN 62,344 WESTERN WISHES (SAF) 2019, wins by 1.25 length(s) in 71.57 secs...
- FM 97 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1200m, RAN 80,156 TUSCAN ROMANCE (SAF) 2021, wins by 1.2 length(s) in 71.19 secs...
- FM 76 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1800m, RAN 62,344 DUCHESS OF PALOMA (SAF) 2021, wins by 1.9 length(s) in 112.68 secs...
- FM 93 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1800m, RAN 80,156 BOOM BOOM (SAF) 2020, wins by 0.2 length(s) in 112.12 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE over 1800m, RAN 71,250 REAL STUNNER (SAF) 2021, wins by 6.75 length(s) in 112.45 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE over 1450m, RAN 71,250 FORCE PUBLIQUE (SAF) 2022, wins by 0.4 length(s) in 88.58 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE (F & M) over 1450m, RAN 62,344 KENSAL GREEN (SAF) 2022, wins by 0.3 length(s) in 89.81 secs...
- PROGRESS PLATE over 2000m, RAN 89,062 ROYAL EDITION (SAF) 2020, wins by 0.3 length(s) in 125.98 secs...

News

WORLD’S BEST RACEHORSE RANKINGS

The official listing of the world’s best racehorses (For 3yos and upwards which raced between 1st January and 5th March 2023) A trio of Hong Kong-based horses hold the top three spots in the first …

FOURTH WINNER FOR FIRE AWAY

Wilgerbosdrift’s blue blooded young stallion Fire Away has made a very promising start with his first two-year-old runners this season, and the son of War Front came up with a fourth first crop winner when …

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 …