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Select sales used to be wildly successful. So how did it pan out at Val de Vie?
25th February 2015
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Select sales used to be wildly successful. So how did it pan out at Val de Vie?
There is a single yearling on offer by French Derby winner and leading Irish based stallion Lawman.This colt is out of a half sister to Gr1 winning Klawervlei sire King’s Apostle – who is himself represented by five lots on the sale
A magnificent Dynasty colt bred by Varsfontein Stud topped the charts when selling for R1,2 million at the Val De Vie Yearling Sale held at a cooking warm Franschhoek today.
Some important catalogue updates for Sunday’s Val De Vie Yearling Sale
There was a time that the National Sale carried a Select session.We’re holding our breath to see how the Select Val de Vie sale will go. For the sake of the future, this one simply has to work
In a rare opportunity, three KZN stallions will go under the hammer on Tuesday
There are some things in life that are simple arithmetic, even in the bewildering sport of horseracing – and long-time champion breeder, Summerhill has a well-documented tradition of selling outstanding racehorses directly off the farm
Bloodstock SA have announced that they will be launching their new ground-breaking technology at the Val de Vie Sale in Franschhoek
Records tumbled at the CPYS last week, with increases in sale aggregate , average and median, and a new SA sales topper at R5.2 million.
I once stuck my hand up at R500 000 only to find my bid-spotter telling me “its your bid at R800 000”! Oops, how did that happen?, asks John Freeman
The Rustenburg based Piet Du Toit entered the Thoroughbred market with a bang on Thursday evening
The seven-time Hong Kong Champion Jockey reached the 1814-win milestone with a double at the city circuit to edge past the long-standing mark of 1813 wins set by the legendary Douglas Whyte
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
