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The stress of simply trying to purchase a L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate day racecard on a quiet Thursday afternoon had a racing veteran saddened at the way the sport treat its customers.
A colt by leading sire Exceed and Excel topped Day One of the 2020 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale when he sold late in the day for A$1.1 million.
The FREE Buyer’s Guide is an amazing, detailed summary of dam and siblings of the 2020 Cape Premier Yearling Sale yearlings
Former champion sire, Jet Master, winner of the Queen’s Plate in 1999 and 2000, looks set to make his influence felt at the 2020 Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate
This sale has consistently produced high-class graded stakes winners,
With his first book including 41 Gr I winners, Justify bred the most GrI winning mares of any North American sire in 2019
South Africa’s current active premier sire of classic horses, Silvano, picked up his fourth SA General Sires title in 2018-2019, and his offspring impressed throughout the course of last year
Darley Australia’s Gr1 winning stallion Kementari will return to racing in 2020 as a gelding
North America, in particular, has seen a host of young stallions stamp themselves as potentially outstanding sires of the future
A recent report lists four practices – secret profiteering, dual representation/commission, “luck” money and bidding up
The South African bred former Equus Champion Sprinter Isivunguvungu made a terrific winning debut on US soil for trainer Graham Motion and confirmed his Prevagen $1million Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint aspirations
The evergreen hero travelled to Vereeniging on Thursday for a 100% strike rate from two rides that saw him bring up his recordbreaking 5555th winner milestone
‘The Breeders Cup Distaff is definitely still on the cards and Beach Bomb will probably have one more race before then’ – Gaynor Rupert
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
