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A Queensland hotel quarantine cleaner who tested positive to the highly contagious UK strain of coronavirus had 79 close contacts and 689 ‘movements’ in the community while contagious
Recently retired Japanese mare Almond Eye (Lord Kanaloa-Fusaichi Pandora, by Sunday Silence) has been awarded her second Horse of the Year title
Cape Thoroughbred Sales (CTS) is postponing the 2021 Cape Premier Yearling Sale, due to the more stringent Covid-19 lockdown measures implemented recently, and the expectation that these may be extended this week
It is hard to believe that it is more 30 years ago since the brilliant racemare Olympic Duel claimed the 1990 Gr1 Paddock Stakes, a race she would go on to capture the following year
Following hot on the heels of Ridgemont stallion Rafeef who broke the ice at Turffontein on Thursday, the Vogel Vlei Stud based Red Ray produced his maiden first crop winner when the Waterford Stud-bred Global Glory overcame a testing cornering effort
Ridgemont Highlands’ Gr1 winning young stallion Rafeef came up with his very first winner when his two-year-old daughter Bella Chica won at Turffontein on Thursday afternoon
Barely a week after the stunning victory of Russian Rock (by his champion son Pomodoro) in the Gr1 Cape Guineas, grandaughter Indi Anna provided her connections with a belated Christmas gift in the Gr3 Flamboyant Stakes
Galileo’s sons and daughters not only dominated the world’s leading races, but his sire sons enjoyed a truly magnificent season in 2020 further cementing Galileo’s increasing dominance of the thoroughbred industry
When Pomodoro retired to Klawervlei Stud, he ticked all the boxes
They have the best of both the thoroughbreds and the warmbloods
The talented juvenile colt becomes the third JRA-G1 winner for sire Frankel, after Soul Stirring and Mozu Ascot
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
