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Galileo – Hard To Oppose In 2014
Galileo earned his 5th UK sires ranking in 2013 – and his third in a row. It is hard to see the champion losing his title anytime soon
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Galileo earned his 5th UK sires ranking in 2013 – and his third in a row. It is hard to see the champion losing his title anytime soon
Poor James Armitage must have lost count of the number of times I’ve threatened to come and visit Sandown Stud’s Ashaawes.
Kenilworth sponsor on Saturday, Keith Steinberg, relates that Lektron started as a family business in 1946, which makes it one of the oldest electronics brands in SA.
It has been a fantastic few days. Obviously Variety Club’s big win made it all worthwhile. It is really lovely when a plan comes together, suggests Joey Ramsden
The Armitage family name was very much in the headlines this Cape Summer Season. Sarah Whitelaw looks at some of the stars of the show
I first had the opportunity to appraise Jonathan Snaith up close in the run up to the 2011 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate. I was pretty impressed.
Dutch Art, a maternal grandson of the Yellow Star Stud based Spectrum, is one of Britain’s most exciting young stallions
For the first time in my week’s stay here in the Emirates, the sun is shining and it really is the most beautiful day. All set for Variety Club to step out in Dubai on Thursday evening
The 2014 J&B race meeting was a triumph for locally bred stallions. All three of the day’s Gr1 winners were sired by SA bred stallions.
Glimpses into the lives and times of racing’s heyday through the eyes of those who experienced them, are incredibly rare
It will be good news for South African racing fans that, despite a number of offers from abroad, Gerald and Karen Kalil’s multiple champion Quid Pro Quo will continue her 3yo season on African soil
The son of Twice Over has been gelded and will be aimed at the Betway Gr1 Summer Cup, the L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the WSB Cape Town Met
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
The Ridgemont’s Kieswetter and Drakenstein’s Rupert families are major players in our horseracing and the Monmouth Park feature thus held more than a passing interest for many of us