2018/19 Equus Awards

Well done to all the winners and a few excellent acceptance speeches.

Congrats to all winners...

Once again DEEZ top class interviews when they broke for supper..lovely to see it


DEEZ should have received presenter of the year award..

IN the midst of a very a tumultuous time for the racing industry, role players, stakeholders, sponsors, and lovers of the sport on Tuesday night honoured their very best at the annual Equus Awards.

Congregating at Emperor’s Palace for a glittering blacktie gala event, the best of the best from all over the country celebrated their successes achieved last season and drew inspiration for the year ahead.

“The Equus Awards is all about celebrating and enjoying what the sport of racing is all about,” said Phumelela’s Rob Scott.

“It’s an evening where all the nominated participants whoƒ form part of these fantastic athletes can enjoy the rewards of the past season.”

While the big three – Sean Tarry, Justin Snaith and Mike de Kock – made their presence felt in every category, there was also joy for trainers Gavin van Zyl and Joe Soma, proving that the smaller yards have a vital role to play in South African racing.

And while Tarry claimed back the title of Trainer Of The Year which he relinquished to Snaith a year ago, it was Snaith who claimed more than a handful of awards last night – thanks mostly to Do It Again, winner of the
L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and the Vodacom Durban July.

Do It Again took home Champion Miler, Middle Distance Horse, Older Male, and the ultimate prize of Horse-Of-The-Year

Oh Susanna, winner of the Horse-Of-The-Year title last year, was not le›ft without a crown as she was named Champion Older Filly/Mare.

“People don’t always realize the amount of work, or the size of the team, it takes to produce a winner,” said Scott.

“While the winning connections are celebrating in style tonight, let’s not forget the grooms, the stablehands, the workriders and all the other staff who work long hours to ensure the perfect conditioning of the horses,”
Scott said. – TAB News.

rolands song wrote: Congrats to all winners...

Once again DEEZ top class interviews when they broke for supper..lovely to see it


DEEZ should have received presenter of the year award..

Your not the first person I’ve seen praising Deez last night

Magnificent Seven stayer of the year :lol: :lol: :lol:

It was also a Magneficent 7 awards for the Snaith team

For six days and seven nights the citizens of ancient Rome watched helplessly as their city burned. The great fire that consumed Rome in A.D. 64 spread quickly and savagely. After it was over, 70 percent of the city had been destroyed. "Of Rome's 14 districts, only four remained intact. Three were leveled to the ground. The other seven were reduced to a few scorched and mangled ruins," writes the contemporary Roman historian Tacitus. Of the million-person population, an estimated half was made newly homeless by the fire.

As is usually seen in such mass tragedies, rumors began to wind through the devastated streets. Reports emerged that some men seen fanning the flames claimed they were under orders. As a result of the tremendous losses, the Roman people, feeling the effects of paranoia, looked for someone who might be responsible for the fire. They blamed their emperor -- Nero.
Some rumors speculated that Nero himself had set the fire, others that he had ordered it. As Nero rebuilt Rome in a new style more to his liking, some believed he used the fire as an excuse for new construction. But perhaps the most interesting rumor that emerged from the great fire was that Nero had played his fiddle while Rome burned.

In the face of such charges, Nero searched for a scapegoat for the fire. He chose the Christians and persecuted them ruthlessly, torturing and executing them in hideous ways. Despite this public spectacle, Nero still found himself blamed for the fire.

The idea that Nero fiddled while Rome burned is odd. But a mad tyrant who preferred to play music rather than offer succor to his people isn't unbelievable, and Nero was unquestionably cruel.