Average and median prices up, more big prices, and a strong middle market. Foreign money, and lots of local big spenders. When the buyers admit it’s hard to buy a nice yearling, then the sale is a success.
The National Yearling Sale saw the aggregate, average and median prices all rise significantly.
CEO Tom Callaghan is pleased with double digit growth, but admits smaller vendors have struggled
Ten lots in the first session of the 2014 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale have fetched R1 million plus.
Pleasing day at the sales after Louis The King provides the pre sale kicker with his Triple Crown thriller on Saturday
The 2014 National Yearling Sale has it all
Catalogue and physical checklists on how to buy a horse – for prospective buyers of thoroughbred racehorses.
Mary Slack: “I was a real horsey girl, a riding loony and my primary interest was riding. Racing came later, and the breeding later still.”
Remember the Kimberley Gold Rush? Fortunes were made and famous names emerged in the decades that followed. Barney Barnato, Cecil John Rhodes, and Ernest (later Sir) Oppenheimer.
It is one of life’s pities that we reward marketing before we reward excellence and quality is so often overlooked in favour of quantity
‘We want to deliver the best quality racing on a consistent basis. That’s what we are striving for. We do not want to host the most racemeetings for the sake of it’
Just hours after the Springboks beat the All Blacks in Cape Town to lift the 2024 Freedom Cup, an equine speed merchant that first saw the light of day just 130km away from the DHL Stadium was announcing his arrival on the US racing scene
The South African bred former Equus Champion Sprinter Isivunguvungu made a terrific winning debut on US soil for trainer Graham Motion and confirmed his Prevagen $1million Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint aspirations
The evergreen hero travelled to Vereeniging on Thursday for a 100% strike rate from two rides that saw him bring up his recordbreaking 5555th winner milestone
