http://www.racingweb.co.za Incorporating FREERACER.CO.ZA Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:04:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ONE of the most interesting aspects of each new racing season is the first runners for a new stallion, writes SARAH WHITELAW.  What stallion will prove successful, and which disappointing? This season sees a number of hyped young sires represented by their first runners. Whilst Black Minnaloushe and Daylami are represented ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/09/exciting-new-stallion-prospects/ BELEAGUERED Brian Roux of BBR Bloodstock Shipping, in response to Alec Hogg's article "How Brian Roux stole my twelve grand", claims that a host of non-paying racehorse buyers and what he terms the "criminally uncompetitive actions" of Racing South Africa led to the recent almighty crash of his 30-year-old shipping ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/09/roux-blames-non-payers-and-racing-sa-for-living-nightmare/ TODAY's RW podcast guests are Mathew de Kock (for Mike de Kock) and Louis Goosen, discussing their runners for the meeting on the sand track at the Vaal. Photo of Mathew and Diane de Kock with Bold Silvano. LISTEN TO PODCAST: [podcast]http://www.racingweb.co.za/podcast/vledit02.mp3[/podcast] INTERVIEWS WITH MATHEW DE KOCK (MK) AND LOUIS GOOSEN (LG) RACE 1: ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/09/racing-on-thursday-2-september-vaal/ THE sand track at Flamingo Park is to be refurbished at a cost of about R1.3 million. The project will commence after the meeting at Flamingo Park on Monday next week and is expected to be completed in 10 days, so that the track will be ready for racing again ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/09/improvements-planned-for-flamingo-park/ MOOI RIVER - Alec Hogg was among those ripped off by a thief who stole tens of millions from racehorse owners, and reports on his misfortune in his column Impeccably Dashing. He writes that he was robbed of R12 833.40 this week and that the thief is known to him... He's ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/09/how-brian-roux-stole-my-twelve-grand/ NO horse has won the R600,000 Emerald Cup twice but Alimony and Phunyuka will be hoping to break the mould when they line up for the Grade 2 race over 1450m on the Vaal sand track on Saturday 25 September. They were among the 36 nominations for the richest sand race ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/09/nominations-emerald-cup/ ROBERT BLOOMBERG has few peers when it comes to the nitty-gritties of studying form and he has a general talk to Charl about Tuesday's Clairwood meeting at which his part-owned Castlethorpe is well fancied. LISTEN TO PODCAST: [podcast]http://www.racingweb.co.za/podcast/rjb.mp3[/podcast] http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/08/racing-on-tuesday-31-august-clairwood/ RACING operator Gold Circle in a media release issued on Monday, 30 August, confirmed that Chairman John Bescoby would be stepping down as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Kim Labuschagne (headline photo) will take over from Bescoby as Chairman, with Ashraf Mohammed in the 2IC seat. While the Board has ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/08/gold-circle-chairman-steps-down-signigicant-changes-in-the-offing/ SWAZILAND-based online casino operator Piggs Peak has closed up shop to SA punters as it awaits clarification from the Pretoria High Court on whether it can continue operating. Piggs Peak operations director Lew Saul Koor writes on the Piggs Peak website: "As you are aware we lost our application in the ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/08/piggs-peak-is-forced-to-block-sa-online-casino-players/ TRAINER Geoff Woodruff is producing the kind of results that never saw him out of the top three trainers in the country for more than a decade until a lapse of form over the last two seasons. The Vaal handler saddled three winners from three runners on sand at the ... http://www.racingweb.co.za/2010/08/woodruff-saddles-three-from-three/