The Past

When recalling the past we often remember all the champions both equine and human. This morning I recalled some other names from the past and the contribution they had to my experience in horse racing.

1: Brutus (trained by stanley ferreira)
2: sorevof (june casey-sean tarry)
3: the sasso brothers
4: Des Renou
5: Ian Lightfoot
6: Willy Figueroa
7: Frikkie Vermaak (spent many nights with him and his wife at Q's)
8: Donavan Habib (spent many nights with him and his wife at Q's as well as a lauran Branighan concert)
9: Gerrit Viljoen ( if you had seen him ride you would know how good he was)
10: Danie Burger
11: Andre Kotze
12: Sloop
13: Kadarko (won the sa derby at turfs)
14: Kushkina ( won for me on my birthday and with Jeff Lloyd on unbelievable)
15: Raymond Rhodes
16: Len Smart
17: Les Kourie
18: Jose Maciel
19: David Ferraris
20: Gary Molloy

Gerald Turner
Martin Schoeman
Michael Cave
Alan Levy
Stefan Zabielski
Lawrence Riley
Warren Bailey (Would have been Champion Jockey)
Rise and Rule
Rain Forest
Bodrum
Pass the Buck
Brandyball
Petrava
Rule by the Sword
Yamani
Turncoat
Smackeroo
Port Pegasus
Armando Freddi
Brian Mcmurtry
Greg Tambourlas

Christie Blom - Jungle Rock
"Legs-lee" Faul

Memories in these lists

Zabeliski rode my first winner Mucho Hombre over 2400 mt was 25 length clear at bend and won by diminishing sh hot

JIMMY ANDERSON ( turns 70 this year ) BIG CHARLES
BARTIE LIESHER

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Cecil Hou Vas Van As

The late Buddy Nassif was a top punter and owner..

Len Sham wrote: The late Buddy Nassif was a top punter and owner..

And Teddy Zaki - had those baby runners in his silks early in the season

mr hawaii wrote:

Len Sham wrote: The late Buddy Nassif was a top punter and owner..

And Teddy Zaki - had those baby runners in his silks early in the season

was his father in law..

and for those that had the privilege of knowing him or having him as a trainer and or ever even going on 1 jol with him......

the late great super George Mazaham

Bertie Hayden
Alec Forbes
Tab and
Senor Santa
Goofy
Floubyou