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‘How much longer will the Operators, who fund the NHA to the tune of roughly R80 million p.a. be prepared to continue financially supporting this wasteful exercise and the runaway legal costs, all of which impacts on our stakes?’
Trainer Fanie Bronkhorst will be enjoying a career first as he offers three lots at the CTS Mare & Mixed Sale at De Grendel Wine Estate on Thursday 20 May
After not being held last year, due to the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, the BSA KZN Yearling Sale makes a welcome return to South Africa’s thoroughbred auction calendar this year
The Gr1 Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on Saturday boasts illustrious names like Frankel and Ridgemont – Highlands resident stallion Canford Cliffs on its glittering roll of honour
Cape Thoroughbred Sales (CTS) and Cape Racing have announced that they will join forces to stage the 2021 CTS Ready To Run Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday, 30 October
When Geoff Woodruff was given the mandate to buy the daughter of Jallad as a yearling, little did he know he had purchased a future Broodmare of the Year
For the first time since 2015/16, it appears that Silvano will not head the Leading Sires By Stakes list in South Africa this season
The 2021 CTS Farm Yearling Sale, formerly the Klawervlei Farm Sale, will be held at De Grendel Wine Estate on 20 June
A colossal week of trade at Riverside came to a stunning end with Sunday’s Australian Broodmare Sale enjoying extraordinary growth across all key financial indicators
The golf day will be followed by the Cape Breeders Club’s annual Stallion Services auction
Victorian-based breeder David Digney purchased the mare Laylia at last year’s Covid-impacted Australian Broodmare Sale – which was forced online due to travel restrictions resulting from the national lockdown at the time – carrying the Capitalist foal.
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
