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Never Bend – a legacy

SARAH WHITELAW: When Never Bend, a son of one of history’s greatest sires Nasrullah, retired to stud in 1964, he had a lot to recommend him.

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Some Really Bad Ideas

LANCE BENSON: Are we marketing the game correctly? This crossed my mind after spending Sunday at Durbanville in the company of a few dirty pigs in the parade ring

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Cometh the woman

ROBYN LOUW: In 1974 Tony Kalmanson established Varsfontein Stud just outside Paarl and the Kalmanson name has been a fixture on the local racing landscape ever since.

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The Musir league

SARAH WHITELAW: Musir follows an illustrious group; Lassie Dear legacy; Noordhoek Flyer foals; Pablo Zeta’s golden years

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That Tricky 1%

ROBYN LOUW: I kicked off my week with a chat to Richard Maxwell one of the world’s leading Horse Whisperers

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Cape Sale in Spotlight

Grant Pritchard-Gordon: The power of marketing should never be underestimated and the British thoroughbred industry could take lessons from the Cape Thoroughbred Sales

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Striker Strydom

ROBYN LOUW: I’ve been a long-standing fan of the blonde bomb that is Striker Strydom. . . . .

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Racy Reading

ROBYN LOUW: The internet is a weird, wide and wonderful place and attracts an incredibly diverse mix of people and so I found Folly – a spanking good read.

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