SA Bloodstock Competes With Best On World Stage
‘The Breeders Cup Distaff is definitely still on the cards and Beach Bomb will probably have one more race before then’ – Gaynor Rupert
7th September 2024
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‘The Breeders Cup Distaff is definitely still on the cards and Beach Bomb will probably have one more race before then’ – Gaynor Rupert
In-form Cape stallion Pathfork (Distorted Humor) hails from an outstanding family, and his half-brother, War Of Will (War Front), is doing his bit to keep his famous family in the news
Heversham Park Farm staged a unique competition in the build-up to the Bloodstock South Africa August Two-Year-Old Sale
Ridgemont’s Gr1 Computaform Sprint winning sire Rafeef has started the new season with a flyer and enjoyed three winners on the trot at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday
Expert Eye’s first crop raced in 2022 and with 22 individual juvenile winners to his credit, he ended the season as England’s fourth leading freshman sire
Mill Princess, fourth dam of local stallion The United States, is a mare who continues to make her presence felt around the world
Explosive Oakleigh Plate winner Marabi topped the Magic Millions August Virtual Sale on Tuesday
Maine Chance Farms’ outstanding stallion Vercingetorix dominated proceedings at the recent August Two Year Old Sale
‘I am writing this as an older, small breeder and in our language, Markus, because this is our war. If I phoned you, I’d be overwhelmed by business jargon within a minute. What makes you so angry that you don’t care what you are doing to our shaky industry? How do you deal with this in your inner, quiet self?’
Bloodstock South Africa’s beautiful balloon of post-covid sales results continued its flight to the stars when the curtain came down on the final day of the August 2yo Sale at Germiston on Friday
On what could prove to be a red-letter day in the years ahead for KwaZulu-Natal horseracing, two of Thursday’s top-priced BSA August 2yo Sale Day 1 chart-toppers are set to enter yards at the Summerveld Training Centre
Big race sponsors Hollywoodbets have set the pace in the pre-nominations ante-post betting market for the 2025 Hollywoodbets Durban July with defending champion Oriental Charm topping the opening board
In our weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, including some slow-run Grade 1 contests at Turffontein
