Bright Blue Skies Forecast
Top-class female lines and high-class producers are very much to the fore in Blue Sky Thoroughbreds’ consignment for this year’s BSA National Yearling Sale
5th April 2025
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Top-class female lines and high-class producers are very much to the fore in Blue Sky Thoroughbreds’ consignment for this year’s BSA National Yearling Sale
Ascot Stud will be offering an excellent draft at the upcoming BSA 2025 National Yearling Sale
Post Covid something changed with your racing, and I can’t quite put my finger on it…and the NHA needs to sort out priorities, be more transparent, and consistent in their findings
Raceform Buyers’ Guide provides an insight as to what to expect of the youngsters at Nationals
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
Ridgemont’s super sire Rafeef, a champion, by a champion, out of a champion, continues to grow with every passing major raceday
History is not on the side of Roy Magner’s Pathfork filly Olivia’s Way, as records show that no filly has won, less taken on the boys in modern times. In fact, it has been over a century since the last female winner and that was back in 1917!
Chris van der Merwe says that judging by their posts, punters believe that they’re keeping horse racing alive and well in South Africa
Duncan and Natasha Barry’s Riverton Stud will be offering a small but high quality draft at the upcoming BSA National Yearling Sale
In this business, none of us should overestimate our powers of prediction and our best tools are experience and context, couched in all the humility we can muster
A colt from the first Southern Hemisphere crop of former Champion European juvenile Pinatubo topped the 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale on Tuesday when selling for A$290,000
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
