The Search For A Good Racehorse
The challenge has been made a little easier by an innovative local private partnership
15th April 2024
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Thoroughbred horse breeding news, views and opinions from South Africa and around the world. Our columnists and authors share their valuable insights on this fascinating aspect of horse racing.
The challenge has been made a little easier by an innovative local private partnership
Last Sunday’s massive storm that ravaged the area was the worst that Pippa has experienced in her 35 years at the magnificent Avontuur Estate
The Raceform Buyers’ Guide is a detailed summary of the dam and siblings of the BSA National Yearling Sale yearlings
Rafeef is fast establishing a fine reputation as a stallion who has the ability to sire stakes winners across the speed and stamina spectrum
South Africa’s established and freshman sires will be represented
With the National Yearling Sale around the corner, here’s some new light on an old challenge
The timing of the recent announcement by the SAEHP makes the BSA National Yearling Sale on 18 and 19 April a watershed two days
So what is it about females bred at the Wilgerbosdrift/Mauritzfontein operation that makes them such a force in South African racing?
The Pierro x Winx filly’s price of A$10m eclipsed the previous world record for a yearling filly set in 2013 and decimated the Southern Hemisphere yearling record price of $5m
The only living foal of champion mare Winx has been sold for a world record A$10 million
The success rate of exported mares at stud in other parts of the world has been very high – and greater than most breeders realise
History shows that three-year-olds have it all to do in this prestigious mile race, given that there have been only ten sophomore winners since its inception in 1861, two of which in the new millennium
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
