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IOL News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- IOL News
Defending champ Oriental Charm, in pole position, leads the charge in 129th Durban July
Jockey Richard Fourie Jockey Richard Fourie seeks his fourth July trophy, having previously won twice with Justin Snaith's charges such as Legislate (2014) and Do It Again (2019). Defending champion Oriental Charm will lead the charge from the coveted pole position gate for the 129th running of the Hollywoodbets Gr1 Durban July, boasting a purse of R5 million. The premier event on South Africa's horse racing calendar is on Saturday, 5 July, at Hollywoodbets Greyville, the race's illustrious home. This year's Durban July promises a vibrant celebration themed 'Marvels of Mzansi,' seamlessly merging cultural festivities with the thrill of racing at As always, the event anticipates not just fierce competition but also a showcase of South African culture and fashion, drawing crowds eager to indulge in the spectacle. Oriental Charm is aiming to repeat last year's success under the guidance of young trainer James Crawford. Crawford, who will be saddling his first runners in the Durban July for his own account, is excited about the opportunity and carries immense weight into the race, alongside two strong local contenders, See It Again and Gladatorian, each with hopes of a home victory. Eight On Eighteen's participation has generated buzz, with debates swirling around whether the young racer would face the formidable Durban July or take the 'more secure' route via the Gr1 Champions Cup later in the season. Sporting a competitive draw from gate 11, Eight On Eighteen aims to impress not only his owners—Nic Jonsson, a previous winner, and businessman Johann Rupert, who is making his ambitions in horse racing known—but the wider horse racing community. Should he win, Eight On Eighteen has the potential to break historical odds set by the legendary Sea Cottage in 1967. With a draw at gate 11 for Eight On Eighteen, the pressure is on, but Fourie's experience may well see him navigate through the pressures that come with such esteemed competition. Fourie's previous wins, all for Snaith, add a layer of exciting history to the upcoming race. On the other end, former dual SA champion jockey Warren Kennedy returns to ride the horse Confederate, having yet to clinch a Durban July title since his debut in 2004. Meanwhile, the legendary trainer Mike de Kock, aiming for his sixth victory, prepares Immediate Edge, who arrives after a stellar win in the Gr3 Jubilee Stakes. Candice Bass-Robinson, celebrated for her historic win with Marinaresco in 2017, also has a contender this year, Rainbow Lorikeet, remarkably the only filly in the running. With a competitive draw of 7, she comes with a history that intertwines beautifully with Bass-Robinson's career. Owned by the Yuppie Syndicate, Rainbow Lorikeet adds yet another layer of narrative to the rich tapestry of this year's race. As the date approaches, fans and participants alike prepare for what promises to be an unforgettable event—a celebration of sport, culture, and community pride, encapsulated on the hallowed turf of Hollywoodbets Greyville.
New York Post
5 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Miranda Devine: Trump-derangement syndrome drives deep state leakers, CNN to treasonous lengths to deny prez a victory
How deranged are the Trump-deranged? Are the deep state leakers and their Democrat media mouthpieces so blinded by their hatred for the president that they will go to treasonous lengths just to deny him a victory. Or are they simply hellbent on provoking a full-scale war with Iran? CNN's exclusive report of a leaked top secret US intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency Tuesday suggested that the weekend B-2 bunker buster sortie in Iran was a flop. This conveniently contradicted Trump's claim that it was a 'spectacular military success' that had 'completely and totally obliterated' Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities and overshadowed the startlingly good news that the president had somehow pulled off a cease-fire between Iran and Israel, which was still holding more than 40 hours later, when we went to press. If the aim of CNN and its toxic leakers was to enrage Trump, it worked, with the president venting ever since on social media, on Air Force One to the traveling press corps and in a press conference in The Hague where he called CNN 'fake news.' He has a point. Among the intelligence community, regard for DIA analysis is so low that the nickname for the agency is 'Do It Again.' The CNN exclusive was written by none other than Natasha Bertrand, the same CIA stenographer who scooped the dishonest Dirty 51 letter by 51 former intelligence officials back in October 2020 falsely claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. More on her later. Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington. Subscribe here! Dishonest spin The FBI is hot on the trail of the leaker or leakers of the DIA report, with US special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff accusing CNN's anonymous deep state sources of 'treason.' But CNN's dishonest spin of the intelligence assessment was as egregious. The DIA came out later to say it was a 'preliminary, low confidence' assessment done in the early hours after the strike and that the analysis was so equivocal that it said the impact of the strikes could be 'limited or it could be very severe,' as Trump told reporters at The Hague Wednesday. CNN just ignored the uncertain nature of the DIA findings and failed to report the contradictory assessments within the report that suggested Trump was right. But never mind. CNN's misleading reporting, soon amplified by The New York Times, gave the rest of the Resistance media hours of gleeful raining on Trump's parade. God forbid that their audience consider Trump might be a step closer to achieving the ever elusive peace in the Middle East. The same Negative Nellies, now chortling that boastful Trump had failed to set back Iran's nuclear ambitions more than a couple of months, were claiming last week that the president was exaggerating the threat because Iran was nowhere near getting nuclear capability. They can't make up their minds because they don't have any thoughts of their own other than whatever Trump says they're against. Within a day, the CIA, the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission and even Iranian assessments contradicted the CNN story with battlefield assessments involving actual on-the-ground human and signal intelligence from Iran to say the US strike on Iran's underground Fordow nuclear was 'devastating.' Iran's Foreign Ministry admitted its nuclear sites were 'badly damaged.' Get Miranda's latest take Sign up for Devine Online, the newsletter from Miranda Devine Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Want even more news? Check out more newsletters 'Critical infrastructure' The IAEC said Operation Midnight Hammer's 13.6-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker busters dropped on the underground Fordow plant had 'destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility totally inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.' Another post-attack assessment, by the nonpartisan US Institute for Science and International Security, a nonprofit aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, drew similar conclusions, while warning that 'with residual stocks of 60% and hidden centrifuges, Iran retains an ability to breakout and produce weapon-grade uranium. '[But] considering the damage to Iran's three known enrichment facilities, the destruction of Iran's centrifuge manufacturing capabilities, its uranium conversion facility, uranium metal production plant, and other facilities involved in its nuclear weaponization process, reconstituting these capabilities will take significant time, investment, and energy to return to its previous state before the war or build nuclear weapons. Iran has likely lost close to 20,000 centrifuges at Natanz and Fordow, creating a major bottleneck in any reconstitution effort.' The full battleground assessment is still to come, but Iran is on notice that any further attempts to get its hands on nuclear weapons will be met with further strikes. What's most intriguing about this saga is the media's complicity with rogue elements of the intelligence community in the ongoing treasonous sabotage of Donald Trump's presidencies. Bertrand, CNN's Pentagon correspondent, is not really a journalist in the traditional sense but more a conduit for the laundering of get-Trump CIA narratives. At 33, the Vassar College graduate has had a meteoric rise through the ranks of multiple high-profile media organizations, after well-connected internships at The Atlantic and the Council on Foreign Relations. Bogus reporting She has been at the center of all the bogus Russiagate reporting about Trump, beginning with the fake Steele Dossier, aka 'pee tape,' during her time at Business Insider and later at The Atlantic and Politico, where she was national security correspondent by the tender age of 26. She was quickly rewarded for her unverified beat-ups on MSNBC, where she became a paid contributor. The fact that most of her reporting was later debunked or proven to be misleading did nothing to hurt her career. Quite the opposite. She was rewarded for never admitting she was wrong, including when the Mueller Report debunked Russiagate and when her CIA-sourced story (designed to sabotage Trump's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan in his first term), that Russia had paid bounties to the Taliban for the death of US soldiers, fell apart. 'Even a cursory review of Bertrand's prolific output reveals an endless array of gossip, conspiracy and speculative assertions masquerading as journalism,' independent journalist Glenn Greenwald once wrote. 'There was arguably nobody in media other than Rachel Maddow who promoted and ratified that [Russiagate] hoax as aggressively, uncritically and persistently as Bertrand.' Even Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple, no Trump fan, has criticized Bertrand for her 'thumb-on-scale speculation' and 'boosterism' of the Steele Dossier in an article titled: 'How Politico's Natasha Bertrand bootstrapped dossier credulity into MSNBC gig.' Until now, Bertrand and her employers have been rewarded for their uncritical promotion of malign CIA saboteurs. But the plummeting ratings at CNN and the Resistance media's collective loss of public trust suggest their time is running out. And finally, the leakers face the real possibility of being outed and held to account.
The South African
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The South African
Hollywoodbets Durban July: Every winner since 1897
The 130th running of Africa's greatest horse race, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, will take place on Saturday, 5 July. Image: Hollywoodbets Durban July website The 130th running of Africa's greatest horse race, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, will take place on Saturday, 5 July at Hollywoodbets Greyville. The Grade 1 race over 2 200m offers a prize purse of R5 million. Some of South Africa's greatest ever horses, trainers and jockeys have won the race which dates back to 1897. Who will add his – or name – to that Roll of Honour next month? Year Winner Trainer Jockey 2024 Oriental Charm B Crawford JP vd Merwe 2023 Winchester Mansion B Crawford K Matsunyane 2022 Sparkling Water M De Kock S Khumalo 2021 Kommetdieding H Crawford / M Rix G Lerena 2020 Belgarion J Snaith R Fourie 2019 Do It Again J Snaith R Fourie 2018 Do It Again J Snaith A Marcus 2017 Marinaresco C Bass-Robinson B Fayd'herbe 2016 The Conglomerate J Ramsden P Strydom 2015 Power King D Kannemeyer S Randolph 2014 Legislate J Snaith R Fourie 2013 Heavy Metal S Tarry S Khumalo 2012 Pomodoro S Tarry P Strydom 2011 Igugu M De Kock A Delpech 2010 Bold Silvano M De Kock A Delpech 2009 Big City Life G Kotzen G Cheyne =2008 Pocket Power M W Bass B Fayd'herbe =2008 Dancer's Daughter J Snaith K Shea 2007 Hunting Tower C S Laird A Marcus 2006 Eyeofthetiger D M Kannemeyer G Schlechter 2005 Dunford M W Bass A Marcus 2004 Greys Inn M De Kock A Delpech 2003 Dynasty D M Kannemeyer R Fradd 2002 Ipi Tombe M De Kock K Shea 2001 Trademark M W Bass P Strydom 2000 El Picha G Woodruff A Marcus 1999 El Picha G Woodruff R Hill 1998 Classic Flag D E Ferraris A Delpech 1997 Super Quality D E Ferraris M Roberts 1996 London News A Laird P Strydom 1995 Teal P B Shaw J Geroudis 1994 Space Walk M H Maingard R Fradd 1993 Dancing Duel A T Millard A Marcus 1992 Spanish Galliard D R Drier R Sham 1991 Flaming Rock R C Snaith K Neisius 1990 Illustrador T M Millard F Coetzee 1989 Right Prerogative T M Millard M Sutherland 1988 Royal Chalice T M Millard D Coetzee 1987 Bush Telegraph B Abercrombie G Puller 1986 Occult T M Millard B Leisher 1985 Gondolier M P Antelme W Harvey 1984 Devon Air T M Millard D Coetzee 1983 Tecla Bluff T M Millard M Sutherland 1982 Jamaican Rumba G M Thompson P Wynne 1981 Big Charles Dr L F Naude J Anderson 1980 Beau Art J Nicholson F Macaskill 1979 Over The Air P Kannemeyer G Puller 1978 Politician S Laird B Hayden 1977 Lightning Shot D G Rich D Mustard 1976 Jamaican Music R J Rixon B Abercrombie 1975 Principal Boy J Breval R Thompson 1974 Riboville G Azzie M Schoeman 1973 Yataghan S Laird B Hayden 1972 In Full Flight D Payne R Rhodes 1971 Mazarin S Laird B Hayden 1970 Court Day R T Knight C Maree 1969 Naval Escort F Rickaby A Reid 1968 Chimboraa B A Cherry D Payne 1967 Jollify F Rickaby J Gorton 1967 Sea Cottage S Laird R Sivewright 1966 Java Head S Laird H Cawcutt 1965 King Willow J Breval I Bailey 1964 Numeral G Azzie R Rhodes 1963 Colorado King S Laird R Sivewright 1962 Diza J H Gorton A Roberts 1961 Kerason S Laird G Walker 1960 Left Wing S Garrett P Cayeux 1959 Tiger Fish T Furness B Little 1958 Excise W Cawcutt H Cawcutt 1957 Migraine F J Chappell H Passmoore 1956 Spey Bridge H Amos C Buckham 1955 Pretos Crown G Azzie H Wright 1954 C'est Si Bon D Labistour J Byrnes 1953 Flash On W E Huckell J Westwater 1952 Mowgli G A Ellis B Lewis 1951 Gay Jane D Labistour V Mcmurtry 1950 Milesia Pride J Morrison B Lewis 1949 Milesia Pride J Morrison H Wright 1948 Monasterevan E Shaw C Buckham 1947 Brookhill T J H Potgieter H Wright 1946 St Pauls D Talbert H Foster 1945 St Seiriol C L Longhurst H Butler 1944 Monteith C B Clutterbuck H Berry 1943 Piccadilly Jim C E Wade H Feldman 1942 Silver Phantom E Shaw H Wright 1941 Sadri Ii S Garrett S Amos 1940 Kipling A E Cruickshank A Gorton 1939 Silver Spear L Howe H Feldman 1938 Extinguisher W Krog C Barends 1937 Ballyjamesduff J Azzie G Masterson 1936 Petersfield E Shaw L Fernandez 1935 Eccentric A Rowe G Askew 1934 Sun Tor J Angles A Rugg 1933 Legacy P C Henwood E Lariviere 1932 Findhorn E Ryan S Johnson 1931 Agrippa W Pickering R De Valle 1930 Full Dress S Garrett H Amos 1929 Gifted W Jackson G Lariviere 1928 Glen Albyn G S Weale A Herschell 1927 Hussein C E Wade G Gorton 1926 Moosme W Knapp E Jacobie 1925 Bird Of Prey W Randall I Strydom 1924 Oriel E Ryan J Lieveaux 1923 Eunomea J Russell J Otto 1922 Collet J Gard F Mcgrath 1921 Longstop G S Weale L Fernandez 1920 Pamphlet J Russell S Garrett 1919 Goldwing J Russell S Garrett 1918 Pamphlet J Russell C Bowles 1917 Fanous P R Little W Crew 1916 Margin A C Townsend W Clements 1915 Winnipeg H De Mestre R Forsyth 1914 Rhanleigh W Randall R Dine 1913 Caged Bird F Murray W Crew 1912 Lombard F Murray I Strydom 1911 Nobleman F Murray A Laird 1910 Sir Caulin F Murray E Hardy 1909 King's Favourite H De Mestre C Clark 1908 Corriecrian F Wade W Pickering 1907 Corriecrian F Wade C Yarnell 1906 Bonnie Dundee W Pickering W Pickering 1905 Chere Amie R Wootton J Mclaughlan 1904 Nymagee W Meredith W Clements 1903 Peerless John White J White 1902 Chaos W Henwood G Bowker 1901 Apollo H C Croon C Macdonald 1900 Verdant Green H C Croon C Macdonald 1899 Talma Hw Taylor J Boardman 1898 Campanajo E Murray G Skirving 1897 Campanajo E Murray R Scott Final declarations close at 11:00 on Monday, 23 June The final field and draw announcement will take place on Tuesday, 24 June The Hollywoodbets Durban July public gallops are scheduled for Thursday, 26 June The legendary Hollywoodbets Durban July pre-party is on Thursday, 3 July The Hollywoodbets Durban July will be run on Saturday, 5 July Let us know by leaving a comment below, or send a WhatsApp to 060 011 021 1 Subscribe to The South African website's newsletters and follow us on WhatsApp, Facebook, X and Bluesky for the latest news.
Black America Web
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Kirk Franklin Shares Artistic Journey and Vision
Source: Reach Media / Urban One Kirk Franklin, the legendary Grammy-winning artist, sat down with Willie Moore Jr. to offer a fascinating glimpse into his creative process, his thoughts on faith, and his exciting upcoming projects such as his new single 'Do It Again; an international tour, and the new TV show, 'Den of Kings.' Franklin revealed that crafting his new music has been an intimate experience deeply rooted in divine inspiration. 'Songwriting connects me to the divine hand of God in ways I can't explain,' he shared. On a particularly challenging Saturday in the studio, Franklin admitted nothing seemed to flow creatively until, as he described it, 'God just threw it on the table.' This moment of spiritual connection drives his creative process, making each song a testament to faith and authenticity. Equally passionate about the evolving cultural perceptions of God, Franklin discussed how spirituality in modern society has become more fluid. He emphasized the need for compassion and intentionality in conversations about faith, particularly in an era that leans more into secularism. 'Our definition of God has transformed, and as Christians, we must engage with humility and love,' he said. STAY INFORMED! CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER! Franklin also touched on his creative collaborations with artists like Tip (T.I.) and Young Dro, praising their authenticity and vulnerability. He highlighted how building authentic connections through collaboration brings fresh perspectives into his artistry. Beyond music, Franklin is expanding his influence through his international tour and his new show, Den of Kings , which celebrates Black equity. The project aligns with his vision of fostering empowerment within Black culture, which he called both 'inspirational' and 'deeply personal.' Kirk Franklin's unwavering faith, artistic brilliance, and dedication to meaningful projects continue to inspire, proving why he remains a major cultural force. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE WILLIE MOORE SHOW LIVE The article 'Kirk Franklin Shares Artistic Journey and Vision' was created with the help of SEE ALSO
The South African
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The South African
Justin Snaith scratches Sail The Seas from Hollywoodbets Durban July
Top Cape trainer Justin Snaith has scratched 3-year-old Sail The Seas from the 2025 Hollywoodbets Durban July. No reason for the scratching was given. Snaith still holds a strong hand in the field with a number of other entrants, including current race favourite Eight On Eighteen Hollywoodbets have priced Eight On Eighteen at 5/2 in the ante-post market. The Snaith yard have not won Africa's greatest race since Belgarion do so in 2020, rounding off a hat-trick that was launched in 2018 and 2019 by the iconic Do It Again. This year's R5 million Hollywoodbets Durban July over 2 200m will take place on Saturday, 5 July at Hollywoodbets Greyville. Second declarations close at 11:00 on Monday, 9 June Final supplementary entries close at 11:00 on Tuesday, 17 June, on which date the weights will be published Final Declarations close at 11:00 on Monday, 23 June Final field and draw announcement will take place on Tuesday, 24 June The official gallops will be held on Thursday 26 June A final field of 20 horses will be carded (18 + 2 Reserves) The reserves to be scratched by 08:15 on Friday, 4 July Let us know by leaving a comment below, or send a WhatsApp to 060 011 021 1 Subscribe to The South African website's newsletters and follow us on WhatsApp, Facebook, X and Bluesky for the latest news.
