2,5 Million Good Reasons!
An enthusiastic crowd of around sixty people were greeted by good weather & track conditions and some very impressive gallops.
20th October 2014
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An enthusiastic crowd of around sixty people were greeted by good weather & track conditions and some very impressive gallops.
BloodStock South Africa’s Breeze Up Gallops were concluded on Thursday 16 October at Yellow Star Stud
The CTS Johannesburg Ready to Run Sale represents your very last chance to buy a horse to run in the 2015 R2.5m Ready To Run race
Bloodstock South Africa have published 11 supplementary entries for the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale to be held at the TBA Sales Complex in Johannesburg on Sunday 2 November
Yellow Star Stud will host the KZN gallops on Thursday morning, 16 October. Many pointers for the 2014 Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale that takes place on 2 November, will be unveiled at the gallops.
All week the buyers have remarked on the quality of the yearlings on offer and not only are we enormously grateful to our vendors for sending the cream of the European yearling crop to Tattersalls, we are also delighted that their collective confidence in Europe’s premier yearling sale has been so richly rewarded.
In line with the Cape Premier Yearling Sale and the CTS March Yearling Sale, all lots catalogued will be eligible to nominate for The CTS Million Dollar in 2017
The Shamardal half-brother to Halfway To Heaven was knocked down to John Ferguson on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley operation for 1,700,000 guineas, the highest price for a yearling in the world this year
On the opening day of the 2014 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, a total of 107 lots were sold for 20,185,000 guineas at an average of 188,645 guineas and a median of 140,000 guineas. The average represented the second highest opening day average for the sale, whilst the median, which was up 19% was a new opening day record for the sale.
The median tells rather a different story. The median is the price half way between highest and lowest price, useful especially when total numbers are on the small side, by making the influence of high prices less
China Horse Club purchased a total of 5 horses, including top lot, Auvray (Le Havre-Ameyrah/In The Wings), who is earmarked as a potential Melbourne Cup contender.
A considered decision to split the longstanding traditional January Premier Yearling Sale into two defined sales platforms has reaped rich rewards for vendors and the Cape Racing Sales team
‘Go watch the L’Ormarins King’s Plate day replays as they narrowed the course and a few didn’t get runs’
Get the full story as told by those who watched every stride, as well as Richard Fourie’s personal insights of the season in his own words
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
