Jewels Lurking In Smaller Barns
Fillies by the deceased Horse Chestnut are in high demand and Gary and Jackie Jolliffe of Golden Touch Thoroughbreds have big hopes for young Gold Image
6th April 2016
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Fillies by the deceased Horse Chestnut are in high demand and Gary and Jackie Jolliffe of Golden Touch Thoroughbreds have big hopes for young Gold Image
Oratorio isn’t a first season sire. Everyone’s heading off overseas trying to find the next big thing, but we’ve got one right here!
Avontuur’s first entry into the Emperor’s Palace Select Yearling Sale this year is happening in fine style with five excellent colts leading the charge for this prestige event. The group includes two Oratorio’s and a Var
The sale will also be the first time that viewers can watch the breeze live via the Tattersalls website within the Sale Day Live window
The sale will be preceded by a Cocktail Party and Charity Poker Evening in the Gladiator’s Poker Room on Thursday evening, 14 April
The 2016 CTS Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale will be held at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg on Friday 15 April
Oratorio produced the salestopping colt, while his stablemate Var was responsible for the sales’ top priced filly
Every sale has its extraordinary buys and trainer Paul Reeves was the man responsible for arguably the shrewdest purchase at the inaugural CTS March Sale
Imagine Frankel being called “Spot” or American Pharoah running as “Hot Diddly Dawg ” – or Sea Cottage appearing as “Huisie by die See”. Doesn’t quite work as well, does it?
Truly a sale in a million! The 2016 renewal will have some 240 yearlings go under the hammer, all of them potential candidates for the two $500k races over 1200m and 1600m in January 2018
The National Yearling Sale takes place on Wednesday 27 April, Thursday 28 April and Friday 29 April, 2016 at the TBA Complex at Gosforth Park in Germiston
Longstanding owner Sabine Plattner celebrated victory in the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
The Barend Botes-trained Lance filly Quid Pro Quo overcame enormous odds to make it five in a row and galloped her way into the history books
Richard Fourie crowned a superb season with an armchair ride to register a 141st Grade 1 winner for Mike de Kock
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
