Met – Bring Back The Ordinary People
The marquees and hospitality enclosures can exist quite comfortably alongside the general public enjoying themselves on the lawns!
27th January 2019
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The marquees and hospitality enclosures can exist quite comfortably alongside the general public enjoying themselves on the lawns!
A stalwart of the breeding industry in South Africa, the passing of George Rowles of Ivanhoe Stud on Wednesday evening has been received with sadness across the broader spectrum of the racing and breeding industry.
“If there is to be a negative, it is that our average price per yearling was down from last year’s R699,000 to R436,000″
Catalogued as lot 129, she was signed for by leading Newmarket-based bloodstock agent Anthony Stroud
The Cape Premier Yearling Sale gets under way today with the first of 226 lots coming under the hammer from 14h00
This sale has become a fixture on the international sales diary for leading buyers locally and abroad – here’s all you need to know about each lot
CTS CEO Wehann Smith presides over his second Cape Premier Yearling as the innovative sales company presents the ninth renewal of an annual event that turned our thoroughbred marketing landscape on its head
The Free Buyer’s Guide is an amazing, detailed summary of dam and siblings of Cape Premier Yearling Sale yearlings. See you at the sale this afternoon
Cape Thoroughbred Sales hosted a cocktail function at Nasdak at the Media 24 Building in the Mother City on the eve of the 2019 Cape Premier Yearling Sale
James Goodman and Sandra De Oliviera named their breeding venture Kilimanjaro Bloodstock, after the first horse owned by Goodman’s parents in 1965
‘We want to deliver the best quality racing on a consistent basis. That’s what we are striving for. We do not want to host the most racemeetings for the sake of it’
Just hours after the Springboks beat the All Blacks in Cape Town to lift the 2024 Freedom Cup, an equine speed merchant that first saw the light of day just 130km away from the DHL Stadium was announcing his arrival on the US racing scene
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
