The outstanding SA-bred five year old Gr1 winner Cloth Of Cloud, trained in her track career by Sean Tarry, looks set to be amongst the highlights of an impressive Tattersalls July Sale
De Kock scored a cross-province feature double on Saturday with Sir David Baird winning the Listed Guineas Trial at Greyville and the dour stayer Kinaan powering home shortly after that to win the Listed Kenilworth Cup
Big names of the past few years have by and large continued to dominate racing throughout the world, and no doubt more landmarks will be achieved in 2018
Capri’s win in Saturday’s Gr1 William Hill St Leger at Doncaster completed a clean-sweep of the 2017 English and Irish classics for male line descendants of Sadler’s Wells
Between them, Galileo and Sea The Stars were responsible for four group race winners at last week’s Glorious Goodwood festival
Galileo is well established as one of the greatest sires in history and recently responsible for a Guineas double, at Newmarket and the Curragh, the son of Sadler’s Wells continues to make and break new records
The world’s number one sire has 30 entries, including champion 2yo Churchill and Gr1 Racing Post Trophy runner up Yucatan
The world’s premier sire, Galileo, continued his complete domination of the world’s top races, when his progeny, Found, Highland Reel and Order Of St George ran 1-2-3 in Sunday’s Gr1 Qatar Prix de l’arc de Triomphe
South Africa’s leading owners Mayfair Speculators were active at the Arqana sale on Monday spending more than 2 million euros when buying two beautifully bred Galileo fillies within a matter of minutes of each other
Star filly Minding, the world’s joint best-three-year-old filly beforehand, won the Gr1 Qatar Nassau Stakes, the feature race on day five of the Qatar Goodwood Festival and Europe’s richest race for fillies and mares.
It attracts very little attention in the local press due to it’s being run on the same day as the Vodacom Durban July
A former Bloemfontein champion trainer, Michael McLachlan was a popular character in the halcyon days of horseracing and now finds himself in dire need
