The Storm Subsides
Leading sire and Grade 1 winner Storm Cat was euthanized on Wednesday at the Young family’s Overbrook Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, at the age of 30 due to complications from infirmities of old age.
Leading sire and Grade 1 winner Storm Cat was euthanized on Wednesday at the Young family’s Overbrook Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, at the age of 30 due to complications from infirmities of old age.
SARAH WHITELAW: So who are the young generation of stallions who could yet turn the tide for a weakened band of US sires?
Storm Cat’s name will be around in pedigrees of top-class thoroughbreds for years to come, but itremains to be seen how deep his legacy will be with his grandsons.
The American-bred son of Storm Cat, Carpocrates has his first crop of 2yo’s racing this season
ROBYN LOUW: Why do we race horses. For fun, for money or for the glory of the game? There are as many different motivations as there are people and horses.
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million