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Premium – Meet Greg Bortz: Saffer who returned from America to save SA’s horseracing
Bortz has only been in the chairman’s seat at Cape Racing for 18 months but he’s changed the dynamic and thinking.
By Gary Lemke
By his own admission, Greg Bortz (above – pic: Troy Finch of Sporting Post) doesn't sleep well. "I tend to get four to five hours a night at most. I'd estimate that I spend 16 hours a day working." But, despite the lack of sleep, the 54-year-old dreams. And unlike the majority of us, his dreams come true.
That's because Bortz not only dreams big, but he delivers on them. He followed a dream when he left South Africa in 1994 as a 24-year-old, worked in London for two years, moved to the US where he helped raise a family of three children, and made enough money to return and retire to South Africa in 2012. He was 42 at the time.
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