Ridgemont’s Red Letter Day
The Championships Finale day at Turffontein on Saturday proved a red-letter occasion of some proportions for the Ridgemont team
1st May 2024
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The Championships Finale day at Turffontein on Saturday proved a red-letter occasion of some proportions for the Ridgemont team
A brilliantly fast son of Ridgemont’s resident standout Rafeef, the four-year-old Thunderstruck most recently emulated his sought after sire when he claimed top honours in the Gr1 Computaform Sprint
The champion farm have decided to retire their home bred son of Frankel
The catalogue, now online, comprises 393 lots (plus supplementaries) to be offered across two days – June 4 and 5
Gr3 Champagne Stakes winner Winter Cloud’s female line may be totally British, yet it has enjoyed a good deal of success in this country
Fastnet Rock, Champion Sire in Australia in 2011-2012 and 2014-2015, has established himself as a truly top-class broodmare sire
The curtain came down after two days of frenetic National Yearling Sale bidding on Friday evening as economic challenges, and the memory of the dark days of the Covid-19 pandemic, felt well and truly buried
The quality packed 2024 edition of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale is now online
The half-brother to equine superhero Frankel got off the mark in promising style in Tuesday’s Alex Scott Maiden Stakes
‘A day that surpassed all expectations and a tangible barometer of the positivity that is sweeping South African horseracing’
Historically South Africa’s most successful yearling sale, the National Yearling Sale has a long and impressive honour roll
Christmas day in a racing stable is largely business as usual. Horses have to be fed, watered and exercised
James McDonald closed a highly successful short-term stint in Hong Kong with a quartet at Sha Tin on Sunday
