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
Was the last galloper to win a race on SA soil with a seriously hefty impost Buddy Maroun’s champion Golden Loom, aka ‘Goofy’, who lumbered 65 kgs under Anton Marcus to beat Fov’s Favourite 26 years ago?
The Ndoro Stud-bred son of Wilgerbosdrift’s War Front stallion Fire Away, Alec Laird-trained Fire Attack dominated the 2025 Highveld Feature Season Awards
In the late 80s, South African breeders were highly skeptical of sons of Mr Prospector. The main criticism was that he was ‘a dirt stallion’ and we race on turf
The businessman was served with an interim suspension of his Assistant Trainer licence on Friday afternoon and has spoken out about what appears to be mostly a misunderstanding based on a potential lack of communication and bureaucratic red-tape challenges
