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ROBYN LOUW: The internet is a weird, wide and wonderful place and attracts an incredibly diverse mix of people and so I found Folly – a spanking good read.
14th February 2013
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ROBYN LOUW: The internet is a weird, wide and wonderful place and attracts an incredibly diverse mix of people and so I found Folly – a spanking good read.
SARAH WHITELAW: Looks at SA Mares strong in Aussie Sale, Shergar’s Legend and The Jallad Impact
SARAH WHITELAW: Martial Eagle, the longshot winner of Saturday’s J&B Met, is the latest Gr1 winner bred on one of the most successful cross in thoroughbred history.
ROBYN LOUW: Now he’s the Met winner and on top of the world. These are the stories we keep coming back for.
ROBYN LOUW: Celebrations, but Judy Brannigan cautions that the industry needs to acknowledge the importance of the small breeder
ROBYN LOUW: “They say money doesn’t buy happiness. But it does buy books. And that’s sort of the same thing.”
SARAH WHITELAW: Champion sire for five consecutive seasons, Jet Master’s last crop of yearlings go through the sales ring this year.
LANCE BENSON: I believe it was author Robert C Gallagher who suggested that change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. And it is indeed strange that the racing operator would have allowed the sponsor to tinker with the veritable ATM machine that is the J&B Met.
Imagine you’re a rival of Usain Bolt in an athletics final. You’re on the blocks, the starter gun goes off and away you go. At halfway there are people waving their arms to stop. You do and are told: “Sorry, Usain wasn’t ready – you’ll have to return to the start.”
Frank Robinson and his staunch patron Sid Moodley look to have booked themselves a Hollywoodbets Durban July berth with Madison Valley
Reigning SA Horse Of The Year Dave The King became the third back-to-back winner this century of South Africa’s highest-rated Gr1 contest, the Hollywoodbets Gr1 Gold Challenge
Currently offered at 25-1 in the ante-post market, Dean Kannemeyer’s lightly raced 4yo The Real Prince is happy and healthy and on track for a run in the big one
In contrast to heavyweights of the modern era in Galileo, Sea The Stars and Dubawi, who have stamped their authority in classic spheres with excellent support from leading breeders, bona fide breed shaper Acclamation rose from far humbler beginnings
