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The 2016 Breeders’ Cup World Championships are set to be held at Santa Anita this Friday and Saturday
2nd November 2016
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The 2016 Breeders’ Cup World Championships are set to be held at Santa Anita this Friday and Saturday
With the international season having drawn to a close and statistics being tallied up, we look at who topped the sires’ logs in 2015
With sons of the mighty Sunday Silence dominating last Sunday’s Gr1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup, it seems his stud book legacy is assured via sire son, Japanese Triple Crown winner and dual Horse Of The Year, Deep Impact
Danzig has shown dominance in the Darley July Cup and Sadler’s Wells has stamped the Epsom Derby – Sarah Whitelaw examines other sires that have dominated important Gr1 contests
It is a good time to look at the leading stallions of the major racing countries for the year 2014.
SARAH WHITELAW: A view of interesting performing sire lines and mares around the world.
While the sireline of the champion American stallion, Halo, is only sporadically represented in South Africa (Sunday Silence’s son, Admire Main, at Summerhill Stud, is a rare exception)
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
