Galileo To The Fore
The world’s number one sire, Galileo, was once again to the fore at last week’s Royal Ascot meeting
22nd June 2016
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The world’s number one sire, Galileo, was once again to the fore at last week’s Royal Ascot meeting
The legacy of the great mare Urban Sea (Miswaki) shows no sign of abating any time soon
Plenty was expected of the Derby/Arc winning champion when Sea The Stars first retired to stud –and they were reinforced in no mean terms when a first crop weanling by the sire fetched €850 000 at the 2011 Goffs November Foal Sale
Ascot Stud is the new home for US-bred stallion Global View, a graded stakes winner on turf in his home country
With a $55,000 purchase at the Keeneland November Sale, Michel Henochsberg left an indelible mark on thoroughbred breeding. Sarah Whitelaw examines the legacy of Allegretta
With the international season having drawn to a close and statistics being tallied up, we look at who topped the sires’ logs in 2015
With his name featuring in the pedigrees of the first three past the post in last Saturday’s colts’ classic, Sarah Whitelaw examines Sadler’s Wells’ Guineas legacy
While Galileo currently lays claim to being Europe’s greatest sire, Dubawi is proving a strong pretender to the throne
Which foreign-bred sire’s offspring have proved most successful in South Africa? And which top class overseas stallion has had the best strike rate in this country? Sarah Whitelaw takes a look.
Tapit’s record-breaking year could not stop Coolmore’s Galileo from claiming his third consecutive title as the TDN Leading North American and European Sire, while leading European third-crop sire was Duke of Marmalade who produced seven 2014 graded stakes winners
It is a good time to look at the leading stallions of the major racing countries for the year 2014.
Charl Pretorius writes in his Off The Record column on the 4Racing website that owners, trainers and racing fans are gravely concerned about the state of our industry
There has been a precipitous decline of betting on the Totalisator which gives cause for concern for the horseracing industry
