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The Winterbach Stud, who foaled and raised this season’s high-class three-year-olds Invincabelle and Cape Derby runner-up Rascallion, will be offering a very smart draft today
Spencer Cook’s The Rock will be offering two yearlings today
Wilgerbosdrift, one of South Africa’s top thoroughbred farms, will be offering a top-class draft of yearlings
Jan Mantel’s Millstream Farm offers two gems
One of South Africa’s leading thoroughbred nurseries, Mauritzfontein, will be offering a high quality consignment on Sunday
Young budding auctioneer Fisokuhle ‘Fiso’ Hadebe is ready for Sunday
CTS announced on Friday, 26 February, that 16 applications had been received to date for the inaugural CTS Gold Rush
Sally Bruss’ Wind River Farm will be offering their first Cape Yearling Sale draft this year
Three of Kentucky’s largest stud farms, Spendthrift, Ashford Farm and Three Chimneys Farm, have filed a lawsuit to challenge The US Jockey Club’s new rule to restrict stallions from covering more than 140 mares each year
There was no indication in the Vaal Stipes Report that an investigation would be opened into the incident
Alistair Cohen will be making his auctioneering debut for CTS at the 2021 Cape Premier Yearling Sale at the De Grendel Wine Estate, on Sunday 14 March
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
