Capitalist Colt Tops Day One Of Gold Coast Yearlings
A colt by Golden Slipper winner and Newgate Farm sire Capitalist topped Day One of the 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale on Monday
24th March 2025
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A colt by Golden Slipper winner and Newgate Farm sire Capitalist topped Day One of the 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale on Monday
Exciting filly Marhoona, who hails from the same female line as Avontuur’s resident sire Talk Of The Town, provided her stellar female line with yet another boost when she won the TAB Gr1 Golden Slipper
One of the most striking aspects of the first session of last week’s CRS Premier Yearling Sale was the dominance of a handful of stallions
Like the tide, the fortunes of many thoroughbred female families tend to ebb and flow
Record-breaking sprinting mare I Am Me (I Am Invincible) is the latest headline act confirmed for the Inglis Chairman’s Sale
Ridgemont’s red-hot five-time Grade 1 winning stallion Canford Cliffs maintained his extraordinary season with two of his talented progeny bringing it home for their sire
A lovely filly by champion sire Written Tycoon topped Day One of the 2025 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale on Monday when selling for A$260,000 to international interests
Records fell and new benchmarks of excellence were established as the curtain came down on the select first session of the 2025 CRS Premier Yearling Sale at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on a vibrant Thursday evening
After the champagne and big numbers of the CRS Premier Sale Day 1 on Thursday, Day 2 on Friday gave a wider spectrum of buyers a realistic opportunity
It is no secret that the South African racing programme is not geared towards catering for middle distance horses and with so few staying races for fillies & mares, one cannot help but feel that Poplar Park has been robbed of a chance at black type
A reminder to register for remote bidding should you wish to follow the sale for bidding purposes
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
