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History is not on the side of Roy Magner’s Pathfork filly Olivia’s Way, as records show that no filly has won, less taken on the boys in modern times. In fact, it has been over a century since the last female winner and that was back in 1917!
Chris van der Merwe says that judging by their posts, punters believe that they’re keeping horse racing alive and well in South Africa
Duncan and Natasha Barry’s Riverton Stud will be offering a small but high quality draft at the upcoming BSA National Yearling Sale
In this business, none of us should overestimate our powers of prediction and our best tools are experience and context, couched in all the humility we can muster
A colt from the first Southern Hemisphere crop of former Champion European juvenile Pinatubo topped the 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale on Tuesday when selling for A$290,000
A colt by Golden Slipper winner and Newgate Farm sire Capitalist topped Day One of the 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale on Monday
Exciting filly Marhoona, who hails from the same female line as Avontuur’s resident sire Talk Of The Town, provided her stellar female line with yet another boost when she won the TAB Gr1 Golden Slipper
One of the most striking aspects of the first session of last week’s CRS Premier Yearling Sale was the dominance of a handful of stallions
Like the tide, the fortunes of many thoroughbred female families tend to ebb and flow
Record-breaking sprinting mare I Am Me (I Am Invincible) is the latest headline act confirmed for the Inglis Chairman’s Sale
Ridgemont’s red-hot five-time Grade 1 winning stallion Canford Cliffs maintained his extraordinary season with two of his talented progeny bringing it home for their sire
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
‘The actions of the jockeys on the day have given South African racing a black eye in the international horseracing community and have caused considerable reputational and financial harm to our industry in general and Cape Racing in particular’
When Grant van Niekerk opened his mouth after the second race, the complexion of a raceday was turned on its head…
In this business, none of us should overestimate our powers of prediction and our best tools are experience and context, couched in all the humility we can muster
