Another Special Finish!
‘It doesn’t get much more nail biting than this clash. Two of the best 3yo horses we have seen in a very long time’
‘It doesn’t get much more nail biting than this clash. Two of the best 3yo horses we have seen in a very long time’
For the second year running, the Mike De Kock-trained National Emblem gelding Shea Shea won the Gr3 Meydan Sprint on Super Saturday
New PE trainer is quick off the mark again as she registers thrilling first feature winner at Fairview on Friday
A Klawervlei Bred sprinter carried the flag for SA bloodstock in the Al Quoz Sprint after Highlands Stud’s Soft Falling Rain had won earlier
SARAH WHITELAW: John Koster pays tribute to the former champion race horse, and successful sire, National Emblem has died.
National Emblem, sire of ten Gr1 winners, died on Wednesday at Klawervlei Stud at age 21.
SARAH WHITELAW: Looks at the long history of the Epsom Oaks being won by some of the sport’s greatest fillies; and the father/son combination of National Assembly and National Emblem
This time it was Shea Shea who lifted the spoils, which neatly perhaps answers the question of why Earl Of Surrey was not in the line-up again.
There was a unique South African connection in the background as the Ralph Beckett-trained Bluestocking charged to victory under Rossa Ryan to win the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday