The Eighth Wonder
Eightfold Path, a son of triple champion US sire Giant’s Causeway and champion racemare Divine Proportions is one of the best bred young sires standing in South Africa.
12th March 2014
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Eightfold Path, a son of triple champion US sire Giant’s Causeway and champion racemare Divine Proportions is one of the best bred young sires standing in South Africa.
Will horseracing wake up and smell the roses and start providing information to try and power the interest of existing and prospective new customers?
When Noble Causeway produced unbeaten Samraat, he became the 6th son of Giant’s Causeway to produce an important graded stakes winner.
A week is a long time in politics, they say. Well, it’s been a busy one for racing and we’ve been dealt a series of rather hefty body blows
Every few years the National Horseracing Authority decides to put the minimum weights of jockeys up. It has been quite a while since this has happened and maybe it is time it happens again.
Galileo earned his 5th UK sires ranking in 2013 – and his third in a row. It is hard to see the champion losing his title anytime soon
Poor James Armitage must have lost count of the number of times I’ve threatened to come and visit Sandown Stud’s Ashaawes.
Kenilworth sponsor on Saturday, Keith Steinberg, relates that Lektron started as a family business in 1946, which makes it one of the oldest electronics brands in SA.
It has been a fantastic few days. Obviously Variety Club’s big win made it all worthwhile. It is really lovely when a plan comes together, suggests Joey Ramsden
The Armitage family name was very much in the headlines this Cape Summer Season. Sarah Whitelaw looks at some of the stars of the show
I first had the opportunity to appraise Jonathan Snaith up close in the run up to the 2011 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate. I was pretty impressed.
A familiar voice for years whenever we telephoned Summerhill Stud, and a lady known as ‘Muhtafal’s Mom’ to many, Megan Romeyn currently finds herself with life-threatening medical challenges
Unbeaten Gqeberha-based flyer Direct Hit became the third East Cape raider to win the Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship this century
The extraordinary story of Chad Little’s comeback to race riding at the age of 40 in November last year after teetering on the brink of the abyss of a nearly wasted life, received a Netflix-type boost at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Saturday
