Big Numbers At Gold Coast
Day Four of the 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale commences today. Inspections for Book 2 also commence today
15th January 2021
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Day Four of the 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale commences today. Inspections for Book 2 also commence today
Ridgemont Highlands’ Gr1 winning young sire Rafeef produced his second first-crop winner when his two-year-old daughter Civil Rights won at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Wednesday.
Snaith admitted that all credit for Elusive Fortune’s success has to go to Pamela, who insisted that the daughter of Elusive Fort remain in training when he recommended retirement at age three!
Coolmore’s Tom Magnier was the winning bidder, coming out on top after a sale ring battle with leading bloodstock agent James Harron
The first foal of stakes winning mare Bonny O’Reilly, a colt by champion sire Snitzel, was the standout act on Day One of the 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Tuesday.
Regardless of any COVID-related caution, there is often a degree of hesitancy and early pass-ins as vendors and the buying bench feel each other out for the first 20 lots or so at any sale
‘I think 2020 was a survival year for a lot of breeders, pinhookers – everybody really. I think as we turn the corner we are starting to get vaccines out and hopefully we are starting to see the light of the tunnel with COVID’
The biggest shorteners were Premier Trophy placers African Night Sky and stablemate Sachdev into 25’s
Queen Supreme, an impressive repeat winner of Saturday’s Gr1 Cartier Paddock Stakes, has a very impressive female line
An automatic berth in the 2021 Gr1 FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile presented by PDJF for Jet Dark
The 13-year-old Coolmore stallion was euthanised on Friday due to liver failure
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
