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The Ridgemont team had plenty to cheer after Tuesday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth racemeeting, with a home-bred double and two smart winners for their Redoute’s Choice champion resident, Rafeef
Defending champion Ushba Tesoro has drawn stall five in Saturday’s $12,000,000 Gr1 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline
With so much depending on a freshman sire’s initial market appeal and first book of mares, Wilgerbosdrift stallion Buffalo Bill Cody found himself very much on the backfoot when he retired to stud in 2020
Buyers better look sharp at Master Of My Fate’s 24-strong draft destined for next month’s National Yearling Sale
Outstanding mare Atishu has been confirmed as one of the headline acts for May’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast
Due to the South African general election on Wednesday 29 May, the Cape Racing Winter Yearling Sale has been moved to Thursday, 6 June 2024
After a highly successful edition of the CRS Premier Yearling Sale powered by Tattersalls in January of this year, there is exciting news about sales plans and the calendar for 2025
That he wasn’t snapped up by one of the leading Cape studs came as somewhat of a surprise. After all, here was a Gr1-performed, impeccably-bred horse, a smashing looker who had sold for R3.7-million as a yearling
Ridgemont kingpin Rafeef has seven black type winners in South Africa this season
On the back of the success of the monthly online sales which Bloodstock South Africa currently runs it was felt that holding a dedicated sale for breeding stock was much needed
A colt by leading Hunter Valley based sire Extreme Choice was the subject of intense bidding before the gavel fell at A$360,000 to the bid of Laurel Oak Bloodstock on Tuesday
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
