There is racing at Borrowdale Park on Friday the 19th of December 2025, featuring the Champion Fillies Stakes.
The first race is off at 13:00 and a link to the racecard appears on this site. Unfortunately, I am experiencing difficulties with my wi-fi connections and everything else in any way digital so coverage is limited.
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The Borrowdale Park race meeting on Saturday, the 6th of December 2025, starts at 12:05 and the feature race, the 1200m Round Table Gold Cup Sprint (Gr3), is off at 15:00.
OutOfTheDarkness, trained by Debra Swanson and with Deryl Daniels up, gets a vote of confidence from the MTC tipster for the main event.
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After the last Race on Friday the 21st of November 2025, the awards for the previous racing season were presented in the Ipi Tombe Room.
Scott Buchan presented the MTC awards, and Colleen de Jong presented The Spey Bridge Awards.
MTC AWARDS 2024/25
Leading Jockey – Derryl Daniels
Leading Trainer – Debra Swanson
Leading Owner – Craig Danckwerts
(Sally Carney represented Craig Danckwerts. Grant Littleford collected for September Flower. Jackie Cocksedge and Derryl Daniels for River Power, and Jackie accepted for Majestic Warrior. Sally collected for the Champion Older Horse. Sally and Thomas Mason were there for Horse Of The Year, Action Zone.)
2024/25 SPEY BRIDGE AWARDS
2yo – No Award
3yo Filly – September Flower
3yo Colt – River Power
Sprinter – Majestic Warrior
Older Horse – Action Zone
Horse of The Year – Action Zone
Personality Of The Year – Scott Buchan
The 1260m Sable Flyers (LR) was won by the three-year-old Uncle Mo (USA) filly, Ziwewere, at Borrowdale Park on Friday the 21st November 2025. Then came Queen Of Fire (Mxoli), Jet Green (Penny) and My Secret Place (Nhlapo).
Owned by Ms TB Hlupo and bred by Geoff Armitage, Ziwewere was ridden by Jeffery Syster. The filly has only had three starts – and has won all of them.
Leading trainer Debra Swanson saddled two more winners at Borrowdale on Friday afternoon, as well as Ziwewere, winning with Copper Fire (Syster) for the Centaur Syndicate, and OutOfTheDarkness (Syster) for Messrs C J Danckwerts and F D J Danckwerts.
Congratulations to all the winning connections!
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Come racing tomorrow, Friday the 21st of November, 2025, when the feature is the 1260m Sable Flyers (LR), due off at 15:55.
The first race on the card is a 1200m Maiden Plate at 13:00, and the Spey Bridge Awards for 2024/25 will take place after the main race.
Hildelita won the 2024 Sable Flyers and the Vercingetorix mare, is aiming to do it again. However, the MTC tipster fancies Ziwewere by Royal Mo (USA), an impressive winner of her only two starts. Both these runners are trained by Debra Swanson.
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The next Borrowdale Park race meeting is on Friday, the 21st of November 2025, and the following meetings are scheduled for the 6th and the 19th of December.
After a great deal of thought, I have decided to step back from covering racing as I have for many years, but times change, and I am no longer as enthusiastic as I used to be.
This site will continue to exist , but low-key, and I will continue to publish relevant information from the Mashonaland Turf Club, if I continue to receive it. Thanks to all of you who support this site.
Some of you are members of the FACEBOOK group page LoveRacingZimbabwe. As this is a public page I am not going to pause it. This means interested people can continue to post and comment should they wish to do so. Although the readership statistics have dropped this year, I really appreciate the help and input I have received from so many of you in the past.
King’s Crown, with Kevin Derere riding, won the fourth race at Borrowdale on Friday, the 1450m MR 78 Handicap. Then came The Octagon (Mxoli) and September Flower (Nhlapo).
King’s Crown is owned by Messrs P D Gorringe, S P Gorringe, V Patel, and D K Ward, and the 5-time winner is trained by Debra Swanson.
This group of owners had previously won the first race on the Borrowdale Park card, the 1450m Maiden Plate, with Ultra Pursuit (Syster). This was the Skit Sizzle gelding’s first start, and he was bred by Bosworth Farm Stud.
Well done, everyone.
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Burn Bright came home lonely in the 1700m Borrowdale E Stakes 58 on Friday, the 31st of October, winning by an impressive 6 lengths.
Trained by Bridget Stidolph, the four-year-old Fire Away (USA) filly is owned by Mesdames C M de Jong, S Ziehl, K Stidolph, Mrs S Loubser & Mr B M MacLauchlan. Bred by Wilgersbosdrift and Mauritsfontein, she has now won five races, and Jarryd Penny was in the irons.
Congratulations to the winning connections!
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Ziwewere won the 1200m Graduation Plate at Borrowdale Park on the 31st of October 2025, for his proud owner Ms B Hlupo.
The daughter of Royal Mo (USA) has now won both her starts. She was bred by Geoff Armitage, is trained by Debbie Swanson, and was ridden by Jeffery Syster on Friday.
Congratulations to the winning connections. One for the notebook, perhaps.
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Trainer Debra Swanson was in great form on Friday, winning five of the six races on the card, including the feature event, the 1600m Bright Future At Borrowdale Park Pinnacle Plate.
River Power, owned by the Centaur Syndicate (Nominee: Craig Danckwerts), is a 4-year-old Global View (USA) colt bred by Riethuiskraal Stud. Jeffery Syster was riding River Power who has now won 9 of his 10 starts. Castle Tankard winner Action Zone (Thackery) finished a close second.
Congratulations to all the winning connections.
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Happy Halloween! The next Borrowdale Park race meeting is on Friday the 31st of October 2025. There are six races on the card and the first is due off at 13:00. The Final Filds have been published on this site.
Racing at Borrowdale Park in Harare - Zimbabwe 