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A winner of the 2024 Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint and one of the most well-bred fillies around, the top-class October Morn has come up for sale by the Executor of the Estate of the late David Abery
The champagne corks were popping at the magnificent Owloon Horses in Paarl earlier this week when their 2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July winning broodmare Souk delivered a handsome and beautifully conformed Fire Away colt
The 2021 stallion intake saw just four recruits to the sire ranks, comprising champions Got The Greenlight and Hawwaam, Gr2 winner Erik The Red and American stakes winner Declarationofpeace
Tragedy struck Suzette and Basie Viljoen’s fledgeling Wellington-based breeding operation Hopes And Dreams on Monday evening when the farm’s flagship mare and 2022 SA Horse Of The Year Captain’s Ransom reportedly died while giving birth
Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continued its record breaking pace on the second day
The first A$1m horse to ever sell at a Southern Hemisphere 2YO auction was the star of Tuesday’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale
Coolmore has announced that European Champion 2yo and European Champion 3yo elect City of Troy will retire to their base in Fethard following his final start in the Breeders’ Cup Classic
His four-year-old daughter Entrancement scored a career best in the Listed Beckford Stakes at Bath
‘Fortune favours the bold, so kudos to Peter de Beyer for retaining Sylvie, a moderate race filly many breeders would have shunned as a broodmare’
The superstar mare renowned for her bold frontrunning style was crowned Australian Racehorse of the Year
An electric atmosphere and frenzied trade characterised a remarkable opening session at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Tuesday with a Frankel filly realising 4 400 000 guineas, the second highest price for a yearling in European auction history
The Rafeef purple patch continued in the 2025 Champions Season opener at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday with another crackerjack performer in the shape of Mon Petit Cherie who won the World Sports Betting Gr2 Fillies Guineas
A Transkei-born horseman who started as a Groom, the groundbreaking Lunga learnt the ropes from top men like Mitch Wiese, Glen Kotzen and Kumaran Naidoo
Better known as having raced iconic legend of the turf Pocket Power, the affable Marsh Shirtliff is fast making a name for himself in the breeding fraternity
On the eve of the launch of the 2025 Champions Season this coming Saturday, South African horseracing awoke to a brand new chapter in its history on the Workers’ Day public holiday
