You can bet on some grand displays of raceriding when South Africa’s best jockeys square up against a team of international riders in the Racing. It’s A Rush! International Jockeys’ Challenge this Friday and Saturday.
The Challenge comprises eight races over two race meetings – four at Fairview tomorrow and the rest at Turffontein on Saturday afternoon, when the R400,000 Victory Moon Stakes is the headline event.
It’s well catalogued that South African jockeys rank right up there with the world’s best as Michael “Muis” Roberts (UK champion jockey 1992), Doug Whyte (Hong Kong champion jockey 13 years running before finally surrendering his crown last year), Basil Marcus, Felix Coetzee, Weichong Marwing, Piere Strydom and others have proved down the years.
And if any more proof is needed, our jockeys have made maximum use of home-ground advantage and won the Challenge five times to the visitors’ two since the event’s inception in 2008.
