For Convenience
Camelot On Track
Trainer Aidan O’Brien paraded Investec Derby favourite Camelot at a media morning organised by Epsom Downs Racecourse and Investec at his Ballydoyle Stable in County Tipperary and is counting down the days until the premier Classic on 2 June. (more)
Post a commentFather Fourie’s Flying Finish
It is not often we see a horse come back from the brink to rally and win in the manner that Adobe Pink did at Kenilworth today.Full marks to Richard Fourie for a ride of sheer brilliance. (more)
Post a commentVettel In the Fast Lane
Trainer Mike De Kock appears to have a bottomless pit of promising youngsters. Vettel won the Highland Night Cup at Clairwood on Mother’s Day and gave notice that he could develop into a useful sort in time. (more)
2 commentsImage Wins The Duel
Winning trainer Brett Crawford was humbled by the presence at Kenilworth today of maestro Terrance Millard, after he had trained the winner of the Listed Olympic Duel Stakes named in his honour. Reflective Image looks a promising sprinter in the making. (more)
Post a commentWhite 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)
Eye Of The Needle
LANCE BENSON: Let’s stop pretending and inject a little needle into the sport of kings. It sure seems to work everywhere else! (more)
Danzig’s Man
SARAH WHITELAW looks at the talent of Danzig (more)
South African Horse Export
South Africa is now entering the low risk period for African Horse Sickness (more)
Highveld Racing Awards
Nominees for the 2012 Highveld Racing Awards (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)
The Wright Stuff!
Summerveld-based trainer Alyson Wright registered her first Gr1 win when the Mauritian-owned Code Rock won the Castle Tankard in Zimbabwe on Saturday. (more)
Post a commentTom Callaghan
Tom Callaghan is a relatively new face in South Africa’s racing and breeding fraternity. From a strong marketing background, Tom is attempting to improve the marketing standards for the TBA and it’s sales arm, Bloodstock SA. (more)
Singapore this Sunday
16-time winning champ Better Than Ever is back and giving 9kgs all round in race 10 at Kranji on Sunday (more)
Danzig’s Man
SARAH WHITELAW looks at the talent of Danzig (more)
Here And Elsewhere
SARAH WHITELAW: Last Saturday’s Champions Day was one of the best race meetings in recent times. A card jam packed with quality racing, the on course entertainment was superb– even if not all punters enjoyed the overall results. (more)
The Yearling Pickers Convention
ROBYN LOUW: No compromise on quality at the National Yearling Sale (more)
Secretariat – great sire or a dud at stud?
SARAH WHITELAW:Views around breeding – is Secretariat a great sire or a dud at stud; the late champion sire Jet Master flies the flag at the National Sales… and more views (more)
Glory of Grey
Breeders who race the majority of the horses which they breed can find that the youngsters which they sell are shunned by the marketplace (more)
Two brothers set to soar
Kingmambo stallion Soar With Eagles has made a very good start to his stud career in Zimbabwe. At the same time his better-known brother Archipenko is getting himself established in England at one of the world’s premier studs (Lanwades). (more)
Champion Genetics: foundation mare Allegretta
The famous foundation mare Allegretta – ancestress of no less than nine winners of eighteen Gr1’s headed by six classics, two Prix de l’Arc de Triomphes, one King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. King’s Apostle’s pedigree represents the Allegretta x Sadler’s Wells cross that produced Galileo. (more)
Post a commentThe Legacy of Miesque
Judpot’s niece, Amanee, won the Gr1 Thekwini Stakes for 2yo fillies over 1600m at Greyville on the final day of the 2010/11 racing season. Amanee is a grandaughter of Miesque, the dam of Judpot. (more)
Posthumous Victory for Moon
Now deceased Victory Moon produced the only South African-bred Gr1 winner in the country’s biggest race day (more)
