Star SA Mares At Millions
The 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale catalogue was published last week and is striking for the number of horses included with South African connections
2nd December 2024
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The 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale catalogue was published last week and is striking for the number of horses included with South African connections
The 2025 catalogue for the boutique sale that out performs its size – the Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale – is now online
Star mare gives birth overnight with positive signs for mum and son!
Isaac Shelby made his 3yo debut in a high-class running of the Gr3 Greenham – the race in which Night Of Thunder lost his unbeaten record to Kingman
All kudos to Willem Ackerman for investing in foreign stock at a time when South African buyers at British & Irish sales have become as rare as hens’ teeth
The 2024 Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint winner October Morn will be winging her way to Australia soon after having been purchased by John Messara of Arrowfield Stud
The new series will showcase Britain’s world-leading thoroughbred breeding operations
Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continued its record breaking pace on the second day
The first A$1m horse to ever sell at a Southern Hemisphere 2YO auction was the star of Tuesday’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale
Coolmore has announced that European Champion 2yo and European Champion 3yo elect City of Troy will retire to their base in Fethard following his final start in the Breeders’ Cup Classic
An electric atmosphere and frenzied trade characterised a remarkable opening session at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Tuesday with a Frankel filly realising 4 400 000 guineas, the second highest price for a yearling in European auction history
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
