Are You Ready To Run?
The Emperors Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale will be held at Summerhill Stud on Tuesday 23 February. Viewing will be from Friday 19 February.
28th January 2016
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The Emperors Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale will be held at Summerhill Stud on Tuesday 23 February. Viewing will be from Friday 19 February.
“One thing this sale has demonstrated though, is the virtue of mating your mares properly, not always for the height of fashion, but with a view to getting a good-looking horse that can run; fashion as we know, is a fickle mistress, hot one month and dishwater the next.”— Mick Goss / Summerhill CEO
Six of the first eight winners of the Emperors Ready To Run Cup have come from Summerhill gallops, with 59 stakes winners and 27 equine millionaires emerging from the various Summerhill R2R drafts in the same period
That “big horse” not only changes your fortunes at the races, but he leaves his mark on the balances at your bank, and the prospect that either one (or God help us, both) could come home for Summerhill is what will keep us getting out of bed at five every morning for the next twenty four months
I have been lucky enough to be selected for the panel. I have quite good results from my past selections but I have no doubt my luck will run out at some stage. It is an extremely tough job as one does not get much time to look at one’s notes. To then give selections whilst on this illustrious panel, with its many famous eagle-eyed experts, is not easy!
In the mid 1980s, we stumbled upon the “Ready To Run” concept over lunch with the O’Farrells in Florida, America…
Over at the barn, the stallions are so well-behaved, so content, because generations of stallion-handling are built into life here. These people have been chasing stallions ever since the old Colonel came back from the Great War in 1918, determined to breed the best transport horses his money could buy
“A horse with a prince’s pedigree, the looks of a demi-god and the movement of a panther.” RIP Mullins Bay
Summerhill’s ill-fated stallion Bankable produced his first winner at Turffontein on Classic Day Saturday and ironically on a day that once saw him strut his talents on the world stage in Dubai
The full price list of the Emperors Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale held at Summerhill on Tuesday 24 February 2015 has been published
In a rare opportunity, three KZN stallions will go under the hammer on Tuesday
Charl Pretorius writes in his Off The Record column on the 4Racing website that owners, trainers and racing fans are gravely concerned about the state of our industry
There has been a precipitous decline of betting on the Totalisator which gives cause for concern for the horseracing industry
