How To Buy At The CRS Premier Yearling Sale
The diversity and strength across the Cape racing landscape can be seen when browsing the catalogue for the 2025 Cape Racing Sales Premier Yearling Sale
9th March 2025
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The diversity and strength across the Cape racing landscape can be seen when browsing the catalogue for the 2025 Cape Racing Sales Premier Yearling Sale
Claiborne Farm’s top-class stallion War Front had a big day on Saturday 1 March when he celebrated a pair of graded stakes winners
The champagne corks were popping down in the beautiful Robertson valley on Friday with the Ridgemont team celebrating another sparkling performance by their stallions in two provinces
Fiery Pegasus joins Cape Derby hero Linebacker as the second top level winner sired by champion sprinter Captain Of All and hails from a female family which had its origins at the famed Zandvliet Stud
Due to ongoing weather implications Magic Millions advises the decision has been made to delay the Gold Coast March Yearling Sale by two weeks
Blood once again rules the land and Rafeef’s potent power-packed pedigree, coupled with the Horse Of The Season’s racing record as a Grade 1 winner of 6 races have equipped his offspring of both sexes with superior ammunition
The 2025 edition of the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale continued to defy the pre-sale apprehension amongst participants on Monday with the results from Day 2 of the sale showing further gains on the promising start to the sale on Sunday
Siddeley is the latest stakes winner to emerge from a proper dyed-in-the-wool South African dam line, that of Victory Moon, Royal Air Force, Wild Hyacinth, Imbongi, Spring Garland and Hidden Beauty
While Direct Hit’s immediate family stands up to scrutiny, it is members further back in her family who made a huge contribution to the turf
A trio of fillies by Gold Standard topped the 2025 Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale at Quercus Park on Monday
Sandwiched between January’s CRS Summer Sale and next month’s Premier Yearling Sale in a competitive and rapidly evolving thoroughbred sales environment, the BSA Cape Yearling Sale on Sunday held up well in year-on-year comparitives off a substantially reduced catalogue
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!
