Santa Claus is coming to town
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HORSERACING and tote betting operator Phumelela will brighten the festive season for hundreds of underprivileged children at the annual Phumelela Christmas Tree race meeting at Turffontein Racecourse on Saturday 13 December.
The funds to stage the Christmas Tree are raised through a direct contribution by Phumelela and the sale of race sponsorships and hospitality tables at the meeting to companies and racing stakeholders. Donations are also much appreciated..
The race sponsors are:
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Katlego Mashego
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TAB’s exciting new soccer bet, the Soccer 4, launches on Friday 5 December with the first pool comprising frontline matches in South Africa, the UK, Italy and Spain.
Soccer 4 is from the same stable as Soccer 6, which has made the world’s most popular game more enjoyable for tens of thousands of people. Soccer 6’s popularity is continuing to grow with Saturday pools on the PSL and UK Premiership often grossing more than R1.5 million apiece.
But for the thousands of sharpshooters out there, TAB is launching a second soccer bet to test their knowledge of soccer to the limit.
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Proteas Jockeys
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Italian-born jockey Frankie Detorri is renowned for his joyful demeanour but even he would have had a wider-than-normal smile on his face after the draw was made at a function at Turffontein on Wednesday night for the International Jockeys’ Challenge.
Detorri (Italy), Darryll Holland (England), Mick Kinane (Ireland), Christophe Soumillon (France), Mallesh Narredu (India) and Damien Oliver (Australia) will take on six of the best South African jockeys in a four-race test at Turffontein on 29 November, the day on which the R2 million Steinhoff International Summer Cup over 2000m will take place.
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Smart Banker
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Hundreds of thousands of horseplayers will be treated to six hours of amazing racing on Cup Day at Turffontein this Saturday.
The R2-million Steinhoff Summer Cup, one of the most famous races on the continent, headlines a programme that includes four other feature races and the four-race International Jockeys' Challenge, in which South Africa’s best riders will clash with international superstars like Frankie Dettori.
The Challenge is the first international racing event on South African soil for 22 years. You can bet that the atmosphere will be electric, the racing will be out of this world and the tote betting pools will be huge with chance after chance to win BIG!
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Champion rider Abraham Makhubo
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Phumelela has rescheduled the work riders’ race meeting abandoned last Thursday as a result of rain to Saturday 20 December on the turf course at the Vaal.
The programme will comprise five Maiden Plates and three merit-rated handicaps and will add substance to what should be a bumper weekend’s racing.
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