http://racingmuseum.co.za/ amazing website

i dont know how long this site has been up or why only two years listed but the info that is there is amazing.

Brilliant site brought back great memories.

It`s Robyn Louws work i think,think shes a while away from going live...

Wow ...I have just spent an extremely enjoyable hour on the site ...Thanks Sly!

Hi all,

Thanks for the kind words. The museum is a side-project of the Sporting Post, so credit is due to the whole team (although any typos are probably my fault !).

In researching information for articles for the paper, we found it a pretty manual job trying to lay our hands on old racing facts and figures. While there is a treasure trove of printed information (old SA Racehorses, Winner's Circle, SA Bloodstock Reviews, etc), it's tough to access as very little of it has been digitised. Also a lot of the old photographic and film material is difficult to find (as Aidan Lithgow has also found in doing his Legends of the Turf series), and it's a fairly time-consuming process.

We started thinking 'wouldn't it be great to have an easily accessible on-line resource dedicated to local racing' and then we figured we might not be the only ones interested in a resource like that. As we have collected a fair amount of material between us over the years, we started putting something together.

It's very much a work in progress (hence not a lot available just yet and a fair bit of editing to be done), so please bear with us. However, we're chipping away and will keep improving / adding on as time allows, so please feel free to browse, comment and contribute

Thanks for update Robyn and I am sure a massive task pity Jimmy still not with us.

Going thru the site names Jumped out at me.

Roy Howe - Trainer

Tikki Carr - Jockey- sorry for spelling
Cristi Blom
Cecil Van As

As a young aspiring gambler i followed there form closely back in the day.

Nothing about Jean Heming horses i did not know when she was on fire.