2. Jun. 2016 / by /   News / 0 comments

Monty Roberts tours South Africa

MONTY Roberts, “The Man Who Listens To Horses”, kicked off his South African tour in Johannesburg on Saturday, 28 and Sunday, 29 May at the Equidome in Johannesburg. Multiple SA champion jockey, Felix Coetzee, who has spent time with Monty at his Flag Is...
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25. May. 2016 / by /   News / 0 comments

Abashiri scoops Highveld awards

MALAN du Toit and wife Finnie were hosted at trainer Mike Azzie’s table at last week’s Highveld Feature Season Awards in Johannesburg, during which Azzie’s SA Triple Crown winner Abashiri swept the boards. As reported elsewhere on this site, Malan has worked extensively with...
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11. May. 2016 / by /   News / 0 comments

Loading, draws and stubborn horses

THE new starting stall loading procedures require all horses to be loaded by their draw numbers, writes leading trainer LOUIS GOOSEN. So, any horse that will not stand in the stalls or suchlike is in trouble.That horse will be loaded in terms of its...
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Abashri with Malan du Toit at the start of the SA Derby.
5. May. 2016 / by /   News / 0 comments

Abashiri was nervous before the SA Derby

ABASHIRI’s breathtaking win in last Saturday’s Gr1 SA Derby, the third leg of the SA Triple Crown, has been much celebrated and discussed, strangely without much mention in the media of Malan du Toit, an integral member of the Abashiri team. We dealt with...
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10. Apr. 2016 / by /   News / 0 comments

How Abashiri regained his confidence

RISING superstar and 2016 Triple Crown contender Abashiri, and from  Mike Azzie’s stable, wasn’t himself at all after winning the Sea Cottage Stakes midway through January. He was uptight and restless and something was bugging him. Malan du Toit’s help was called in. Malan...
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4. Apr. 2016 / by /   News / 0 comments

Nother Russia: Special Filly

WITH her striking resemblance to her famous dam, Nother Russia was always going to be a filly in the limelight. She won her Maiden Plate over 1600m on the straight course at the Vaal by 5.40-lengths on Thursday and on this there will be...
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22. Apr. 2015 / by /   In The Press / 0 comments

Sporting Post, 22 April 2015: ‘Profile’

If you spend enough time in racing yards or sales yards, you may notice a figure in the background. He’s a tall, site solidly built man with dark hair, a moustache and frequently sporting a pair of dark glasses. He’s usually discretely positioned somewhere...
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5. Jul. 2012 / by /   In The Press / 0 comments

Parade Magazine, July 2012: ‘The Horse Magician’

ACTOR Robert Redford endeared himself to millions of moviegoers around the world when he starred as Tom Booker in his self-directed, 1998 feature film The Horse Whisperer. By hook or by crook, the award-winning drama also served to popularise the term ‘Horse Whispering’ as...
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Clever Hans
27. Feb. 2010 / by /   News / 0 comments

Communicating The Right Messages

IN the first part of the twentieth century a horse called Clever Hans made news headlines in Berlin. His owner, Wilhelm von Osten, a Berlin school teacher, claimed that Hans could count, tell time, identify coins, musical scores and answer questions about politics and geography....
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