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GOLD CIRCLE - KWAZULU NATAL CHAPTER IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MICHAEL ROBERTS Second-year apprentice Richard Fourie has become the first recipient of the Michael Roberts Bursary, a fund established by Gold Circle early in the year to provide financial help to one young apprentice from previously disadvantaged communities each year to pursue a career as a jockey. Michael Roberts (left) and Gold Circle's KwaZulu-Natal Chapter Chairman, Mr Bill Lambert (right) congratulate Richard Fourie, the first recipient of the Michael Roberts Bursary. The bursary provides financial assistance for an individual to attend the Racing and Equestrian Academy at Summerveld in KwaZulu-Natal. South African racing has adopted an aggressive programme of transformation through all levels of the industry and in KwaZulu- Natal, under the mantle of Gold Circle, major steps have been taken to fast track the process. Parade The Michael Roberts Bursary Fund is just one of those initiatives and follows on the highly successful stable employees training school at Summerveld. The apprentice bursary carries the name of racing’s most famous son, former international jockey Michael Roberts, who was happy to become associated with the programme and made a significant contribution to its initial funding when it was launched. Michael Roberts is a living legend in the annals of South African racing, the country’s greatest jockey and the man who paved the way for his fellow countrymen to enter the international racing world. Champion jockey in South Africa 11 times and the only rider from this country to ever win the jockey championship of Britain, he has been the hero of most young riders who dream of emulating his incredible success here and overseas. Now retired and living at his farm in the Karkloof area of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Roberts has given his name to the Gold Circle bursary fund which provides financial assistance to one young apprentice each year to attend the Racing and Equestrian Academy at Summerveld near Durban. Roberts was forced to retire from riding after sustaining severe neck injuries in a racing fall in the United Kingdom. His determination to succeed in England against the stiffest of opposition earned him the respect of the British racing fans and against all the odds he went on to win the coveted British champion jockey title. Young Richard Fourie has shown considerable talent in his short time as a race rider and in October received the Gold Circle Jockey Achiever Award for his success during the month. In announcing Fourie as the recipient of the Michael Roberts Bursary for 2004, Gold Circle’s KwaZulu-Natal Chapter Chairman, Mr Bill Lambert, thanked Michael Roberts for giving his name to the bursary and congratulated the young apprentice who had “a very promising career” ahead of him. “Richard, as the first recipient of this bursary you have very big shoes to fill, but Michael and all at Gold Circle would never expect you to fill his shoes. We do, however, expect you to forge your own pathway to success, but always remember to use Michael’s achievements as a guideline for your career. “He has been South Africa’s greatest racing export and nothing would give us more pleasure than to say the same of you.” 39
40 GOLD CIRCLE BENNET BULANA Riding bareback on donkeys, cattle and oxen and racing his friends across the vast Transkei veld, young Bennet Bulana, the son of a Gauteng miner, never dreamed that one day he would play an important role in improving the lives of unskilled workers in the horseracing industry. Parade A MAN WITH A PASSION TO SUCCEED & IMPROVE From the rural area of Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape where he was born and completed his schooling, Bennet travelled to Thekwini as a wide-eyed teenager to seek his fortune. After years of “chasing chickens”, cleaning out stables, grooming riding ponies and perfecting the tricky art of shoeing horses, Bennet Bulana is now the highly respected riding instructor and stable manager at the Stable Employees Training School at Summerveld near Durban. Today he is an accomplished horseman, a qualified farrier and holds certificates as an “instructor of instructors” from the KwaZulu-Natal Training Centre at Pinetown.
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