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One of South African thoroughbred breeding’s most respected and experienced administrators, Amanda Carey is set to join the powerful Maine Chance Farms operation in Robertson
A new South African broodmare auction sale record was set at the De Grendel Wines Mare & Mixed Sale on a wintry Cape Thursday
A colt by I Am Invincible sold for an even AU$1 million to top a record breaking Day One of the 2021 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale on the Gold Coast
Cape Thoroughbred Sales will host the 2021 De Grendel Wines Mare & Mixed Sale, in partnership with Meerkat Online Auctions
Cape Thoroughbred Sales will host the 2021 De Grendel Wines Mare & Mixed Sale at a warm and dry venue with traditional CTS hospitality
Champion Robertson nursery Ridgemont Highlands will offer a high quality draft of ten mares at the De Grendel Wines Mare & Mixed Sale on Thursday
A staunch and loyal stalwart of Cape racing, Basil formed the BBP Syndicate with Garth Miller in 2004
Black Swan Stud sells Helen’s Ideal (#36) as agent on Thursday’s CTS De Grendel Wines Mare & Mixed Sale
Given her achievements, First Arrival must rate as one of the country’s famous matrons and as the dam of two Gr1 winning champions, it remains a mystery why she has not been honoured with a Broodmare of the Year award
It is a roller-coaster ride of music, including hits from favourites like Bryan Adams, Depeche Mode and Belinda Carlisle, to MC Hammer and Chesney Hawkes, to SA topliners like Mango Groove, Brenda Fassie and Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse
One of the most popular auctions of its kind, this year’s stallion auction represents a great opportunity to acquire services to stallions who may be otherwise fully booked for the upcoming season
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
