BILL LAMBERT

The Gold Circle Owner Award for the month has been bestowed on Bill Lambert

There is no man in South African racing who displays his love and passion for racing more than Gold Circle’s Ambassador for Racing Bill Lambert, a man who has been involved in the sport for 67 years and for who winning the Grade 2 Umkhomazi Stakes with King’s Knight was as exciting as if he had won the Vodacom Durban July.

“I’m riding on a rainbow” is how Bill described his current feeling about life on being named the owner of the month, a typical attitude of the man who after winning the race commented of his jockey Sean Cormack that he was “like a big chocolate and I could eat him all up.”

Never one to stifle his feelings, when another of his horses William Of Wembley won his response was that he was so excited he could “explode like a trick cigar.”
Bill has given his life to community service and racing and became involved in the sport when his father Frank Lambert gave him a filly called Aromatic for his 21st birthday that ran seven seconds before winning then never won another race.

Bill was a steward at Scottsville – then the Pietermaritzburg Turf Club – for many years and when the three KwaZulu-Natal clubs joined forces to form Gold Circle Racing, he was the first Chairman of the new organisation.

“Racing is my passion,” says Bill who has served the industry with distinction and, to all with a love of the thoroughbred and the sport that has been evident for many years.

Well done Bill.