Louis Goosen

Training racehorses can be equated to a game of snakes and ladders. No sooner have you climbed the ladder than the dreaded snake swallows you and it’s all the way down. Some snakes are shorter than others but Louis Goosen has been swallowed by a few snakes in recent months with his relatively small string hardly hitting the boards. But you can’t keep a good man down and it all change for the good last month as his 20 runners produced five winners. Louis is climbing the ladder again with his string having turned the corner and his ‘Barbie’ colours to the fore.

Louis is Gold Circle’s Trainer of the Month for September.

Frank Robinson

Frank Robinson has been in racing for most of his life starting out as stable employee to Herman Brown Jnr at Ashburton before moving to Herman Brow Snr at Summerveld after Junior left for Dubai. Frank has mostly had a small string of horses but he turns them out immaculately. He also has a knack of keeping them on the boil long after many of his colleagues would have cried enough. Frank had one of his best months in some time when he saddled 6 winners from just 16 runners at a 37.5 percent strike rate. He also looks to have two smart horses in his yard, in Sovereign State and Mexican Pete, both owned by Sid Moodley.

Frank is Gold Circle’s Trainer of the Month for August

Sean Tarry

The Gold Circle Trainer of the month award is generally reserved for resident KZN trainers but South Africa’s Champions Season attracts the full spectrum of the country’s trainers for three months of brilliant racing and it would be remiss not to honour Sean Tarry as trainer of the month. The Randjesfontein-based Tarry had a phenomenal Champions Season and a strong late run on World Pools Gold Cup day pushed him to within a feature race of overtaking Justin Snaith in the National Trainer’s Championship. Outside of the features, Sean won ten races in KZN in July, two more than Gareth van Zyl and a R1 win on each of Sean’s runners will have yielded a tidy profit of R21.50.

Sean Tarry is Gold Circle’s Trainer of the Month of July.

Peter Muscutt

After hitting something of a ‘flat spot’ a couple of months back, Peter Muscutt has got his stable back on track and firing on all cylinders. May was a month to remember as he saddled 11 winners, three more than KZN Champion trainer Gareth van Zyl, at an impressive 35 percent winning strike rate.

Peter is Gold Circle’s Trainer of the Month for May.

Stuart Ferrie

Stuart Ferrie may have ‘inherited’ a well-oiled operation from his former boss Dennis Drier but as an assistant for the majority of his career the increased responsibility and pressures of running a yard in its entirety is a new challenge. Stuart got off to a flying start in his first month, saddling three winners from his 13 runners and a R1 bet on each of his runners will have yielded a profit of R33.40.

Stuart Ferrie is Gold Circle’s Trainer of the Month for April.