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Levelling The Playing Fields

A survey of racing success as a factor of how much money you spend was recently undertaken in Australia – and read more how the original Ready To Run has spawned close on 40 millionaires

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Family Race Within A Race

It is not often that we have a well-performed sister taking on her progressive younger full-brother in a feature field of just nine runners

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Ready To Run Gallops

A National Institution!

Those that’ve made the annual pilgrimage will know that the Ready To Run gallops at Summerhill had evolved into a national institution over the first three decades of their existence

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Kingmambo, St James Palace Stakes 1993

Love Grows As Duke’s Mom Asserts Her Status

Love Me True took her status to a new level this weekend, with a pair of sons responsible for group winners over the weekend, and another son landing the Godolphin Flying Start Zetland Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday.

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Dynasty Son Legislate Back At Stud

Former Horse Of The Year and four-time Gr1 winner Legislate has returned to his birthplace, the Cheveley Stud in Ceres, and he will be standing this season for a very reasonable fee of R5 000 live foal

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Horse Chestnut wins the 1998 Dingaans

Breeding Chestnut Champions

In Return, a daughter of South African champion and Triple Crown winner Horse Chestnut, joined an elite group of mares to have been represented by two Gr1 winners in a year

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So it’s true…

Nobody worth his salt in the sport of racing needs an introduction to Pat Shaw – he’s as much a totem of the game in South Africa as Vincent O’ Brien was to Ireland and Bob Baffert to America

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Vale Clive Gardner

A popular face at many National Yearling Sales, he acquired international fame and recognition when a guest auctioneer at the Goffs Orby and November Sales between 1981 and 2012

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Mare Scoring – How It Works

The Thoroughbred Breeders Association and Bloodstock South Africa held a seminar for the KZN Breeders Club recently to discuss the scoring of mares for the National Yearling Sale

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