Local horse racing owes a lot to Greg Bortz
Of course, it wasn’t just Bortz that resurrected South African racing, but he was a main catalyst, dynamo, spark that got hundreds of people and billions of rands working flat out to fix things: the executor of the strategy.
A record-breaking R10-million 2026 Durban July purse, a thriving Race Coast operator and burgeoning international racing tie-ups are evidence of the dramatic turnaround.
Bortz’s retirement this week as chairperson of Race Coast – at the tender age of 56 – is a story that slipped a little under the radar as the 2025/26 racing season headed to a noisy conclusion.
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