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Oratorio Tops In Europe

Avontuur stallion Oratorio currently tops two of the three European sires logs after another three stakes winners last weekend. More →

Marchfield for Moutonshoek

Marchfield. To take up duties at Moutonshoek

A graded stakes winner on turf and Polytrack, Marchfield’s biggest success came as a 4 and 5yo, earning Champion Canadian older horse honours in both seasons More →

Attacking Stuff!

Big Stuff Oratorio! Military Attack wins the Gr1 in Hong Kong today. (Bruno Cannatelli)

Oratorio plays on! The Avontuur Stud stallion’s son Miltary Attack wins Gr1 Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup More →

The Storm Subsides

Leading sire and Grade 1 winner Storm Cat was euthanized on Wednesday at the Young family’s Overbrook Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, at the age of 30 due to complications from infirmities of old age. More →

Game Of The Name

Something in the order of 130 of the 537 yearlings catalogued for the weekend’s National Yearling Sale are unnamed. If classic names are your thing, rather buy one of those as we believe that changing a horse’s existing name is bad luck. More →

Marchfield for Moutonshoek
Canadian-based sire Marchfield relocates to Moutonshoek Stud

Marchfield. To take up duties at Moutonshoek
A graded stakes winner on turf and Polytrack, Marchfield’s biggest success came as a 4 and 5yo, earning Champion Canadian older horse honours in both seasons More →

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2012

Trippi Foal
This seasons new arrivals. More →

Sire Affinities

Stallions
A monthly take on the top off spring of SA's top 5 stallions. More →

Opinion

Rags To Riches

SARAH WHITELAW: When Farhh won Saturday’s Gp1 JLT Lockinge Stakes, he became the third offspring of outstanding British sire Pivotal to triumph in this top-level 1600m contest More →

Globe Trotting Gypsy

ROBYN LOUW: Gitano Hernando first flashed across the radar before the 2011 Dubai World Cup, when he famously changed hands to the Chechen President. More →

Ruler Renewed

SARAH WHITELAW: Bold Ruler was a truly great and remarkably dominant stallion, who became a potent sire of sires, and highly successful broodmare sire. More →

Sands of Time

20 Years Ago: Sands Of Time – May 1993

Regions of the Cape horse racing industry are to be placed under one controlling body… The British Jockey Club is considering the introduction of random dope testing for jockeys… Frankie Dettori is cautioned by British police for possessing a small amount of cocaine… Michael Roberts survives an objection to win the Irish 2000 Guineas… More →

20 Years Ago: Sands Of Time – February 1993

Michael Roberts officially accepts an offer from Sheikh Mohammed to ride the Arab ruler’s horses in Europe… The Natal Tote introduces the Quartet bet…. Cape media react indignantly to the overturning of a penalty for excessive whipping…. SA champion jockey Jeff Lloyd rides winners of six of the ten races at Clairwood…. More →