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The Riverton team will be bringing a small but quality draft to the 2024 National Yearling Sale, with the quartet made up of yearlings sired by Rafeef, Master Of My Fate and Quasillo
A beautifully presented filly by champion sire I Am Invincible made history when she sold for A$400,000 to top Day One of the 2024 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale on Monday
Renowned pre-training and spelling farm Soetendal Estate will be bringing five smashing yearlings, as agent for Owloon Horses, to the 2024 National Yearling Sale
Summerview Stud will be offering a small but select string at this year’s National Yearling Sale
Arguably the ultimate breed-shaping stallion of the modern era, Fort Wood’s impact on the SA Oaks has been profound, for not only did he sire the Oaks winners Monyela, Bedloe’s Island and Ilha Bela, he also features as the grandsire of 2018 winner Secret Potion, sired by his classic winning son Elusive Fort
Maine Chance Farms has announced the appointment of internationally experienced and widely respected horseman Ross Fuller
A colt by Better Than Ready topped Day One of the 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale with a phone bid from Los Angeles Airport coming up trumps
The importance of strategic breeding decisions, deep pedigree knowledge, and the pursuit of excellence that defines the world of breeding
Normandy Stud’s founding mare Terpsichore played a big role at Turffontein on Classic Day
Ridgemont have announced a very exciting boost to their stallion band with the arrival this season of world-class miler and US Grade 1 winner Hit The Road
The various directions that families and bloodlines can take when different aptitudes and approaches combine is a never-ending source of fascination, yet blood will out!
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
