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New 2yo Sale For Cape
The CTS Sale will be held a few months in advance of the annual Cape CTS Ready To Run Sale
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The CTS Sale will be held a few months in advance of the annual Cape CTS Ready To Run Sale
There is, in the grand scale of things, no apparent relationship between what people will pay for horses and prize money to be earned.
While the aggregate was slightly down on last year, the final day of the 2015 National Yearling Sales produced pleasing increases in both the average and median prices
Lot 221 Savannah Cat, a filly by Fort Wood out of Kapen Cat, was consigned by Lammerskraal Stud and became the most expensive filly ever sold in South Africa when the hammer fell at R4,75 million
Australian-bought yearlings ruled the roost at the CTS Select sale. Of the 7 yearlings which sold for over a million, 2 reached R2 million.
The 2015 National Yearling Sale had a busy first day, seeing a new sale record reached at R4,25 million
A webcast of the 2015 National Yearling Sale will be transmitted for the duration of the sale
Money isn’t what it used to be. Even so, the spectacular spend on thoroughbred yearlings in recent times has to be seen to be believed.It may be coincidence, but the steepest incline follows the introduction of the Select Sale at Nationals in 2002
Four hundred and forty-nine yearlings at Nationals to inspect from head to toe. An avalanche of cleverly catalogued pedigree information. So much to do, and so little time. How are we to make sense of all of it before raising our catalogues and bidding?
The 2015 National Yearling Sale Buyers Guide is a veritable mine of information. To unearth the good and the bad, here’s how to think outside the box…
In August 2014, Sporting Post published a new look at stallion statistics. What follows is an update on last year’s exercise, with specific focus on the stallions represented at Nationals who have current offspring of 3yo and older
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