History As NHA Gets Lady Chair
She has been actively involved in the Horseracing Industry in South Africa for forty years
15th January 2020
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She has been actively involved in the Horseracing Industry in South Africa for forty years
Mrs Rowett has served as Chairperson on various Boards within the Horseracing Industry and previously served as a National Board Director from November 2012 until April 2016
Bela-Bela is the only filly to take on the boys in Saturday’s Gr1 Sun Met. We chat to the connections behind the ‘Pink Horse’
At 28 years young, ‘Turbo Takkies’ Marie Galante is alive and well and as feisty as ever at her Varsfontein home in the Western Cape. We celebrate one of SA’s speediest fillies by chatting to those who know her best.
The TBA announces joint venture partnership with Michael Holmes and Equine Group
‘As much as breeders want to support these efforts to achieve a well run NHA, with its board freed of conflict of interests by operators, it is simply not in our best interests to surrender our representation at board level’
Given the feedback now received by BSA from both vendors and buyers, it appears that a microchip fee on buyers would be detrimental to the competitive positioning of BSA in the throroughbred auction marketplace. It also appears that breeders, despite their complaints about the cost of the microchip, do not actually wish to pass these on to buyers.
‘No-one from CTS has contacted anyone at the TBA to discuss dates and certainly no-one at the TBA has given anyone at CTS the right to announce anything to do with TBA’s BSA sales’
I hope that breeders will give extra careful consideration of the facts as they make their sales entries over the next few months.
The winds of change are blowing powerfully! It is refreshing to learn that the Thoroughbred Breeders Association Chairperson Susan Rowett will be visiting the far flung corners of South Africa to open the channels of communication with breeders.
‘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
