Godolphin’s American-based homebred Mystic Guide, the impressive winner of Saturday night’s $12 million Gr1 Dubai World Cup, has the great South African thoroughbred Hawaii in his pedigree
One of the Turffontein features today is named in honour of the Platberg Stud bred Hawaii, a champion at age two and three in South Africa
Storm Cat, sire of 4 Breeders Cup winners and broodmare sire of Cup heroes Speightstown (Gone West) and Folklore (Tiznow), has left a lasting mark on the Breeders Cup races, and his momentum shows no sign of slowing down.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
