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Given the recent public focus and attention around on-course ambulance and medical services, the apparent failure of the ambulance to track the runners in the eighth race at Greyville on Wednesday is puzzling
‘Every time a horse is withdrawn at the start or suspended, everybody loses. For the owner – who with our punters pays the salaries of trainers, jockeys, grooms, stipes, vets and the rest – it’s a case of a horse not earning and standing in the box and costing money…’
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of “The Iron Horse” Giant’s Causeway, who passed away last night aged 21
Redoute’s Choice stallion Time Thief, who recently celebrated his first Gr1 winner in Australia, has joined an illustrious line-up of sires as Highlands Stud part of Ridgemont hosts a stallion parade
There can be little doubt that the late Jet Master was one of the finest thoroughbred stallions ever bred in South Africa
Horse racing is an extraordinary sport with extraordinary risks. We cannot have ordinary support services.
In the aftermath of the CTS April Yearling Sale there is little question that the South African thoroughbred sales industry is going through a phase of major correction and adjustment on all fronts
Scoops 2017 Broodmare of the Year at the KTOB’s Kentucky-Bred Champions Awards Luncheon at Keeneland
The ‘colt of the year’ from ‘the best family in the southern hemisphere’ was the star of Day 3 of the Australian Easter Yearling Sale
The market continues to be a tough one with buyers holding the ascendancy
‘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
