
KZN Premier Mare & Weanling Sale
Sunday heralds the KZN Premier Mare & Weanling Sale at the magnificent Summerhill Stud in Mooi River.
Sunday heralds the KZN Premier Mare & Weanling Sale at the magnificent Summerhill Stud in Mooi River.
The Michael Holmes Bloodstock 2015 Super Sale, featuring the final dispersal of Mr & Mrs R.C. Muir will be held at Greyville Racecourse
Gr3 winning colt Tribal Dance topped the dispersal sale and Tales Of Bravery, Top Seller, Twitter sold to Mauritius
ROBYN LOUW: Horses and people are what makes racing interesting. A gathering for a sale and stallion viewing in the winelands, how better can it get.
It’s a no-brainer. Racing is about running, not walking, and the advantage the customer gets from the benefit of seeing a horse run, is like hindsight. It might not be quite 20/20, but it’s not far off.
The preparations for the Emperor’s Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale, to be staged in the Al Maktoum School Of Management Excellence at Summerhill next Wednesday 22nd , are well underway.
Esteco sales topper was bought by Michel Nairac, while Safwan did not reach its reserver at the Super Sale hosted by Michael Holmes Bloodstock.
South African horseracing falls under the Asian Racing Federation and the Graded status of races is decided by the Asian Pattern Committee (APC)
Explained – the circumstances behind the decision by the connections of the dual Grade 1- winning sophomore One Stripe to ‘bypass’ the R1,5 million SplashOut Gr1 Cape Derby on 22 February in favour of a likely final run on South African soil in the non-black type Big Cap
With the Aga Khan’s breeding and racing programme very much geared towards the classics, it can be argued that South Africa, where speed, rather than stamina is the hallmark of its racing programme, has failed to capitalise on the excellence of especially its female families
Rob Haswell tells that he has had horses trained by Nathan Kotzen for more than twenty years and pulls us up for our Umthombothi Stakes ‘flop’