Trip Tease: A 14th success for Malan du Toit “graduate”
TRAINER Louis Goosen thanked Malan du Toit for his “ground work” done with gelding Trip Tease, who posted his 14th career win at Turffontein recently. Read more here.
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...
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...
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...
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...
How Abashiri regained his confidence
RISING superstar and 2016 Triple Crown contender Abashiri, and from Mike Azzie’s stable, check 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....
Nother Russia: Special Filly
WITH her striking resemblance to her famous dam, malady 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...
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....
One big challenge: The story of Miss Dillan
by MALAN DU TOIT APART from my day to day work I have been privileged to fly with horses since the beginning of 2002. I became part of an excellent team of guys called Sky Jockeys. Over the past five years I have been...