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Race Coast incentives for the 2025/6 season explained
The Mercury
|August 15, 2025
STAKEHOLDERS racing in the Cape and KZN can look forward to enhanced Race Coast incentives, powered by Hollywoodbets, in the new season, after over R25 million was paid to owners, trainers and jockeys last term.
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While the KZN portion of the Race Coast Incentive, amounting to R9 632 500, was only paid for the final seven months of last season, incentives of R12 222 000 were paid to owners in the Cape, with R2,7 million to trainers and an additional R817 625 paid out to jockeys in the region last season.
Gold Circle
The launch of South Africa’s new age coastal racing operator, spawned from the merger of Gold Circle’s operations in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape-based Cape Racing, at the end of May signalled the arrival of a vibrant new force in South African horse racing, with the innovative Race Coast Incentive Scheme a key driver in bold plans to rebuild and reignite a passion for the sport, while attracting a new and diverse audience.
Looking ahead, incentives have now been standardized over the two Race Coast regions, with an amount of R38 475 000 budgeted to be paid to stakeholders during the period 1 September 2025 to 31 July 2026.
This story is from the August 15, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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