Tiger’s Retreat on track for Sansui Summer Cup after courageous win in the Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes
Are there any modern day leading sires who never won a feature race?
SARAH WHITELAW: With the season drawing to a close, the question of who the leading sires are comes into question.
Cherry On The Top storms home to win the R750 000 Gr2 Wilgerbosdrift SA Oaks
Cherry On The Top turned the R1 million Gr1 Wilgerbosdrift SA Fillies Classic into a procession
The 2012 R2 million Gr1 Sansui Summer Cup will go down in history as so much more than just another horserace
At the 2012 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, Ascot Stud breeders of Bold Silvano have a strong draft, while King of Kings and Tiger Ridge sires of a pair of impressive juvenile winners at Clairwood last Sunday, are well represented.
Was the last galloper to win a race on SA soil with a seriously hefty impost Buddy Maroun’s champion Golden Loom, aka ‘Goofy’, who lumbered 65 kgs under Anton Marcus to beat Fov’s Favourite 26 years ago?
In the late 80s, South African breeders were highly skeptical of sons of Mr Prospector. The main criticism was that he was ‘a dirt stallion’ and we race on turf