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Horse of the Year title for 2008 will be another close run affair. Thechampion Pocket Power will forever be remember for his feats in winning thegreatest races in South Africa, while J J The Jet Plane plundered all before himover the sprint trips in South Africa. A third realistic contender comes into the equationfor probably the first time in a long time. This star thoroughbred and a

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South African trainers have taken the world by storm in nearly every major racing country in the East in the recent past and it seems to get better and better as the months go by.The latest trainer to grab top honours on the international circuit is Herman Brown - trainer of Jay Peg. After beating the world's best grass milers in Dubai and having his form franked by Archipenko in Hong Kong, one

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The world witnessed another stunning South African triumph when the new golfing star Trevor Immelman shot to world prominence overnight.The star became only the second South African in history to win the US Masters, a feat only completed by his mentor, Gary Player. Player has deep roots in South African sport and more recently he has developed a successful racing stud farm in the Karoo, near Cape

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Hong Kong is a racing institution. It does not have the history of England orthe traditional racing background of Europe, but for the history it lacks, itmakes up in almost every other way. One of these is the way it treats its champions and the adoration offered tothem by their throngs of die hard racing fans. They recently said farewell toanother superstar of Hong Kong racing, Vengeance of Rain

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The J&B Met has come and gone, adding memories to savour and pictures to treasure.This year was somewhat of a history making “Met” as the champion of South Africa, Pocket Power destroyed the best on offer for the second time in 2 years and took out his second successive J&B Met, the first since a horse called Politician scored the unique race double. The conditions of the event make defending the

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It does not sound like a lot of travel at first thought but when one adds to that the fact that I travelled over the Indian Ocean twice, it makes for one arduous journey! Tokyo, Taipei, London and Hong Kong were on the agenda for another whirlwind international travelling schedule to some of the biggest racing and breeding events of 2007. It turned out to be one fine trip and a worthwhile journey

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Tokyo RacecourseA TALE OF THREE CITIESTokyo, Hong Kong and London in a three week stretch may sound odd for a person originating from South Africa.However that's exactly the plan in an arduous 3 week half way around the globe trip and back to cover three major racing and breeding events that are happening in two regions and three different countries in the world.I start off in the hi-tech city of

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I was thrilled to hear that a trip to Korea that I undertook in December 2006 ended up being a worthwhile exercise for South African horse racing as a whole.I was one of about 18 foreign press agencies invited by the Korean Racing Association via the Hong Kong Jockey Club in order to experience the thrills of Korean Horseracing.Like most things in the Far East, it was well organised, exciting and

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Although this is nothing new, paying million dollar prices for horses isstill a rarerity. When it happens, it is big news. However, two milliondollars is extraodinary. This happened twice in two day for progeny fromthe same mare at the JHRA Select Sale in Chitose, Hakkaido, Japan.Just five days before a major earthquake hit western Japan, RiishiKondo, rocked the JHRA sale when he bought two half

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Tokyo is a big city and this is the best way to start describing it. It has over 12 million inhabitants and over 10% of the population of Japan itself living in Tokyo metro. This means that it is a big city. With this level of sophistication, work ethic and desire it is no surprise that they are a world superpower.The sprawling metropolis of Tokyo is even bigger than I ever thought real. With one

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Racing is such that you never know quite where you will be next and I would have never have thought that I would be in Tokyo for the Vodacom July, such is life.However, this is the case and it was only by the kind invitation of the Japanese Race Horse Sales company otherwise known as the JRHA. I will be a guest of the association for their annual JRHA Select Sale, now in its 10th year, a sale

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Life is such that it gets more interesting by the day. More especially if youhave anything to do with the media. Activity in horse racing media takes thecake as their is almost never a dull day. With the industry being so smallrelative to mainstream South African sporting media, there always seems tosomeone or the other who can't handle the heat.This was certainly the case in a recent event that

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June 16, 1976 will go down in history as the day that the world stood up and took notice of the South Africa regime. Children of all ages were killed at the hands of the South African police force in the bustling Johannesburg township of Soweto in the then Transvaal. While white South Africa cried and the merciless killings, black South Africa morned the dead of hunderds of children.Fighting for

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