A Legend!
January marks the 40th year of Summerhill’s involvement in the breeding business.
5th December 2018
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January marks the 40th year of Summerhill’s involvement in the breeding business.
Fresh faces around the ring was heart-warming and what the game needs
Multiple SA Champion breeders Summerhill have announced that their dual Gr1 star Rabada will return to the place of his birth this season to stand as a stallion
Cathy Martin of Hadlow Stud and Mick Goss from Summerhill Stud have been elected to the current Board
”Too many horses are not making their production costs in the sales ring and we invite you to talk to us about your needs…’
With the forces at work now, I would be pretty bullish that we’ll have something concrete in place for our export initiatives by December
After a lifetime around horses and a decade of doing Ready To Run panel duty, Kannemeyer mused philosophically as he paid tribute to the quality that had just paraded past the seven esteemed panellists
We’ll leave it to your judgment when you’ve seen the catalogue and witnessed the gallops, to decide whether they’re on the button
Klawervlei’s slim hopes of retaining the title appear to rest on them having an exceptional week in the minor meetings and doing well with their few big race opportunities on Super Saturday, while they will also have to rely on Summerhill failing in all of their many big race opportunities
The late Omar Sharif once said that what he loved about the “mating game” in the thoroughbred world, was that it was like “playing God”
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
