Don’t Mess With ‘Bakkies’
Named after the Rugby Springbok ‘Bakkies’ Botha, this youngster is a half-brother to Rabada by Await The Dawn,
11th April 2016
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Named after the Rugby Springbok ‘Bakkies’ Botha, this youngster is a half-brother to Rabada by Await The Dawn,
Highlights of the 2016 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale include a half brother to Winx that went under the hammer for AUD $2,3 million
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?
A dual Grade 1 winner and South Africa’s highest rated racehorse, the Vaughan Marshall trained One Stripe will campaign in a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
A final field of 17 will face the starter at the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth 2000m marker on Saturday 25 January for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met
