Select Yearling Sale Catalogue Available
The 2016 CTS Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale will be held at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg on Friday 15 April
30th March 2016
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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
As with many other aspects of thoroughbred breeding there are different theories about buying, or not buying, first foals. The CTS March Yearling Sale catalogue offers some interesting options…
The catalogue for the CTS March Yearling Sale to be held at Durbanville Racecourse on 19 and 20 March is now available online at www.capethoroughbredsales.com
62 lots were sold at an average of R41 919-35, with the top seller being #22, a Visionaire filly (out of Glitz), named Fortysecond Street
With the aggregate rising 51 percent, the sale average rose 34 percent over last year’s record figure to reach $23,250 off an 83 percent clearance rate
The catalogue for the BSA 2016 National Yearling Sale to be held at the TBA Sales Complex, Germiston, Johannesburg from Wednesday 27 April, is now available
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
