The Borrowdale Park race meeting on Friday the 25th of July was the last of the 2024/25 racing season, and the first meeting of 2025/26 is on the 18^th of October.

This is where I should start chirping that next season will be better but, being a journalist and not into public relations, I am simply going to say, “It had better be”. The contrast between Hollywoodbets last Greyville meeting of 2024/25 and Borrrowdale Park’s, was depressing. The success of former Zimbabweans training in South Africa, and the fact that Peter Moor and Henk Leyenaar owned two of the Greyville winners, provided some welcome relief.  You can read all about it on my Facebook group page LoveRacingZimbabwe.

The feature race at Borrowdale, the 2000m Zimbabwe Oaks (L) was won by the One World filly September Flower, trained by Amy Parham and owned by the Brumby Syndicate (nominee Grant Littleford). The three-year-old was bred by Boland Stud, and Philisande Mxoli was riding. Congratulations to the winning connections.  September Flower also won the first leg of Zimbabwe’s Triple Tiara, the Fillies Classic, in May, and she has now won four races.

The annual racing break starts now and Zimbabwe racing will not resume until October. Plenty of time for a rethink!

Photographs by Zimbabwe Equine News.