For Convenience
White Mischief Top at 440k
Oaks-placed stakes winning Jet Master mare White Mischief, in foal to Var, topped the Milkwood dispersal sale. Summerhill’s Mick Goss had to bid R440.000 to secure the 4yo mare, who is in foal for the first time. (more)
Exciting Prospects on Milkwood Sale
The Milkwood Dispersal Sale, which takes place on Thursday morning, sees a number of exciting broodmares and broodmare prospects up for sale. (more)
Business As Usual
If the first three yearling sales of 2012 are anything to go by, nothing much has changed since last year for the majority of vendors. Median prices (which negate the effect of extreme prices) are rock-steady. (more)
The 55% Solution
Gr1 races won by South African sales graduates in the last decade throw up a total of 134 individual winners. Of these, no less than 75 are National Sale graduates – that’s 55%. No other sale gave more than 18 Gr1 winners. (more)
Pedigree Hunting Part Of The Fun
Closer inspection of pedigrees can make the world of difference in your choosing of the lot you want to! (more)
Decade of Champions
Champions’ Nursery – Wilgerbosdrift (more)
Take the Rushing out of Roulette
LANCE BENSON: Nothing is more important in horseracing than picking the right horse, whether you are punting horses or buying them. Random swipes in the dark may have worked on the odd occasion but a scientific ordered approach to yearling selection dramatically reduces risk. (more)
Classic Pedigrees on Classic Sale
South Africa’s premier sale has long been established for producing classic horses and top-class middle distance performers. There are a number on offer, whose pedigrees look tailor made for some of this country’s bigger 3yo events. Viewing starts 22 April (more)
Totally Tiger
Tiger Ridge. Imposing son of worldclass sire-of-sires Storm Cat. Half brother to US Horse of the Year, Champion sire and sire-of-sires A.P. Indy. Half brother to US Classic winner and G1 producing sire Summer Squall. 21 yearlings will be at the National Yearling Sale. (more)
Broodmare Sires to watch at the sales
The top ten leading broodmare sires in South Africa are well represented at the National Yearling Sale. (more)
The Need For Speed
We take a look at some the speedily bred youngsters on offer at the 2012 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale. (more)
Pocket Power relatives and Jet Master
Two close relatives of South African legend, Pocket Power, are on offer at the 2012 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale (more)
The Rough Yearling Picker Guide
The quality of yearlings on sale at the 2012 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale remains strong throughout the catalogue, with some superb yearlings. It is a real page turner…! (more)
Trippi leading sire of 2yo’s
Trippi is now leading sire of 2yo’s by stakes and by number of stakes winners as well as by % winners/runners (more)
Bold Silvano nominated for Dubai and Singapore
At the 2012 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, Ascot Stud breeders of Bold Silvano have a strong draft, while King of Kings and Tiger Ridge sires of a pair of impressive juvenile winners at Clairwood last Sunday, are well represented. (more)
Silvano, Trippi top Cape Sale
If the 2012 Cape Sale Book Two is regarded as the equivalent of last year’s regional Cape Sale and Equimark Sale combined, then things are very much looking up. (more)
Melbourne Premier Sale concludes
Internationals splurged $1,426,000 on 19 lots during the first session and yesterday secured another 25 lots for $1,604,000, bringing the sale total for internationals to $3,030,000. (more)
Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale
One of the early features of the 2012 Melbourne Premier Sale was the large contingent of South African owners, trainers and agents in attendance (more)
New Brooms
The overflow of yearling entires that didn’t make Book One find themselves, for the first time in 2012, in the Cape Yearling Sale Book Two. (more)
Why The Ready To Run?
It’s a no-brainer. Racing is about running, not walking, and the advantage the customer gets from the benefit of seeing a horse run, is like hindsight. It might not be quite 20/20, but it’s not far off. (more)
Something New, Something True
You’ve got to give it to the Ready To Run judging panel: it was the collective experience of more than three hundred years in the game that identified the Strongholds and Mullins Bays as South Africa’s “second coming”. (more)
Ready To Roar
The preparations for the Emperor’s Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale, to be staged in the Al Maktoum School Of Management Excellence at Summerhill next Wednesday 22nd , are well underway. (more)
Horses For Sale!
Unraced 2 and 3 Year Olds. Shares available in raced horses as well as 2 recent acquisitions for the Cape Premier Yearling Sale. (more)
