Trippi Tops Cape Regional Sale
Remarkably, averages at the Cape Regional sale were very much the same as at Vintage, two days later – as if the one flowed into the other.
7th March 2011
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Remarkably, averages at the Cape Regional sale were very much the same as at Vintage, two days later – as if the one flowed into the other.
It doesn’t take much to make this grown man cry. Land of My Fathers in Welsh at the Millennium Stadium – Apollo 13 after the 4th re-entry minute – Angela Gheorghiu singing Vissi d’Arte – Kramer v Kramer the ultimate Dad’s film – Aldaniti’s Grand National – you name it…….BLUB!
Letter to the editor of Thoroughbred Daily News – “I had no idea what lay ahead. Are these people amateur horse breeders in darkest Africa?! I really didn’t know what to expect. Selling yearlings in January in the Southern Hemisphere is like selling in June in the Northern Hemisphere. In other words, very early.”
PROMOTERS of the inaugural Cape Town Premier Yearling sale, held in the unconventional surroundings of the city’s waterfront international convention centre, closed the books on Friday evening with the feeling of a job well done.
CAPE TOWN’s inaugural premier yearling sale ended its opening day with nine one-million-rand or more purchases, a top price of R2.5 million (£221,581/€256,271) for a half-brother to South Africa’s record money-earner Jay Peg, and a below-expectations clearance rate of 68 per cent, from 105 lots out of 150 originally catalogued.
Robin Bruss on the inaugural Cape Premier Sale and the way forward
A man we are privileged to have known as a loyal friend of this great game and of the Sporting Post, a personal mate, and one of South African horseracing’s great characters, Shaheen Shaw, a husband, loving Dad and Grandad, passed away suddenly at the age of 55
The sad reality is that no matter who did what wrong, the Peter saga has been a scar on the SA horseracing landscape for far too long and besides the old favourite of justice delayed, it has lingered lengths ahead of KZN star Royal Victory’s big win in the 2023 renewal of the Highveld showpiece
Time has flown by and it’s been thirty years since the first issue of the Sporting Post hit the shelves in October 1994
The champagne corks were popping at the magnificent Owloon Horses in Paarl earlier this week when their 2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July winning broodmare Souk delivered a handsome and beautifully conformed Fire Away colt
