As I delve further into the world of horseracing with the people at Racing. It’s A Rush, my year ended with a flurry of activity, from the Emerald Cup and International Jockeys' Challenge to the Sansui Summer Cup. A year of horse racing firsts beckon this year, since I’ve never even attended the Vodacom Durban July, but that will change starting with the 154th L’Ormarins Queen's Plate happening this weekend, January 10th, 2015, at Kenilworth Racecourse (which is South Africa's oldest racecourse) in Cape Town. It is South Africa’s oldest race having first been run in 1861 in honour of Queen...

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