SA Flag Flies In Hong Kong
Applause and support for Racing South Africa annual promotion last Friday at the Foreign Correspondents Club where Hong Kong legend Felix Coetzee was Guest of Honour
14th December 2014
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Applause and support for Racing South Africa annual promotion last Friday at the Foreign Correspondents Club where Hong Kong legend Felix Coetzee was Guest of Honour
Alesh Naidoo, arguably SA’s most colourful owner, raised his catalogue for the last time to secure Lot 27, the R1.2m son of Bernadini.
Three different Ready To Run Sales in the space of just one month, all with a valuable sale-race incentive attached to them.
The Ready to Run concept has boomed to three auctions. Massive sale-race incentives are now part of almost every auction sale worth its salt in South Africa, with (this year, at least) the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale’s 3.85 million Cup-race the front runner.
We are delighted to have secured the up-market and horse friendly venue of Val de Vie Estate. It is particularly pleasing that Breeders have conveyed their strong desire to support their own Sale in the Cape and we expect buyers to be equally excited at the opportunity of buying horses at this spectacular venue.
Susan Rowett was not surprised by the attraction of CTS’s guaranteed payment to vendors, but added that in an industry that virtually had a culture of non-payment, the costs to the company can quickly compound
Summerhill have withdrawn their draft of over 110 horses from Bloodstock South Africa’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale 2014.
The blue blooded miss, catalogued as lot 354, is the first lot to fetch more than R1 million at the 2014 Emperors Palace National 2YO Sale.
The 2014 National 2yo Sale kicks off at 10:30. If you’ve not finalised your picks just yet, you may want to have a quick look at our analysis of what’s on offer.
The National 2YO Sale has a long history of producing great racehorses at a range of prices, with graduates including the likes of J J The Jet Plane, The Apache, Jackson and Tribal Dance.
Wilgerbosdrift has supplemented Lot 230, Ely Beach, by Tiger Ridge out of an own sister to Kildonan
It is no mean feat to win at feature level from 1400m to 2400m, but My Best Shot proved equal to the task and set himself up for East Cape Horse Of The Year honours – and maybe a Hollywoodbets Durban July supplementary entry?
An investigation into betting patterns, both locally and internationally, has been launched by the National Horseracing Authority
