Rabada Half-Brother Tops Sale
A Trippi half-brother to dual Gr1 winner Rabada topped the charts at the 2018 Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale
5th November 2018
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A Trippi half-brother to dual Gr1 winner Rabada topped the charts at the 2018 Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale
Sit back, relax and watch the gallops for a class catalogue – and there is plenty of talk about it being another vintage year!
Three different Ready To Run Sales in the space of just one month, all with a valuable sale-race incentive attached to them.
The Ready to Run concept has boomed to three auctions. Massive sale-race incentives are now part of almost every auction sale worth its salt in South Africa, with (this year, at least) the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale’s 3.85 million Cup-race the front runner.
You’ve got to give it to the Ready To Run judging panel: it was the collective experience of more than three hundred years in the game that identified the Strongholds and Mullins Bays as South Africa’s “second coming”.
The best thing about a Ready To Run Sale, unlike other sales of racehorses, the evidence is right there in front of you. The acid test is the racecourse, and you’ve either got it, or you haven’t.
Update of track performances of relatives of 2 year olds offered at the Ready To Run Sale
With exactly a month remaining to the Emperor’s Palace Ready To Run Sale which takes place at the TBA Sales Complex in Germiston, BloodStock South Africa have released the online catalogue on their website.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
