Sparkling Water, our 2022/3 G1 Hollywoodbets Durban July winner, has been retired to stud. She has joined the broodmare band at her owner/breeder Mary Slack’s Wilgerbosdrift Stud near Piketberg, Western-Cape. Sparkling Water, a five-year-old mare by Silvano out of Espumanti by Dansili, goes to stud with a superb race record. She won seven of 21 …

On the eve of the stakes-boosted 2023 Champions Season, Hollywoodbets and Gold Circle will again ensure that Grooms are rewarded for their vital role in the success of delivering a world-class product. The innovative Grooms’ initiative powered by Hollywoodbets and Gold Circle, has been increased 100% with the winning incentive rocketing from R1000 to R2000 …

Sporting Post Oblivious to the world’s eyes firmly focussed on Meydan this past week, a Durban July winner is whiling away his retirement days within a stone’s throw of the ecstatic madding crowd that screamed Japanese star Ushba Tesoro home in the twenty-seventh running of the Dubai World Cup Sporting Post photographer Chase Liebenberg cracked …

Gold Circle and Hollywoodbets are pleased to announce that Champions Season 2023 will boast more than R29-million in prize money for the Feature race programme, which comprises 13 Grade 1 races, 12 Grade 2 races and a host of Grade 3 and Listed events. In addition, an amount of R24-million will be paid out for …

David Thiselton When Anthony Delpech said earlier this season “we need a Grade 1 horse” he and the Hollywood team could hardly have envisaged their leased Ridgemont Highlands-bred Dynasty filly Make It Snappy would be a dual Grade 1 winner by the first weekend of January. The first ever winner of the Grade 1 Cape …

Graeme Hawkins The Australian-bred Al Muthana, having only his second run for trainer Ricky Maingard, caused a massive upset when holding off the attentions of the heavily supported Charles Dickens to win the R2-million King’s Plate at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday. Starting at 80/1, Al Muthana’s victory contributed in no small way to a massive …