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It’s Vodacom Durban July week. It’s the KZN Yearling Sale. Where else would anybody really want to be?
21st June 2017
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It’s Vodacom Durban July week. It’s the KZN Yearling Sale. Where else would anybody really want to be?
The Highlands stallion barn has been home to some of the greatest sires to stand in South Africa over the past few decades
With the 2017 Cape Winter Derby being run this weekend and African Night Sky looking our best chance yet of seeing a successor to Pocket Power, we went in search of the origins of the Cape Winter Series
A daughter of champion sire Trippi set a new record price for a Klawervlei Farm Sale, when fetching R1.5 million on Saturday evening
Newhaven Park-based first season stallion Delago Deluxe sired his first South African winner when the Australian-bred In Clover stormed home to win on debut at Greyville
Highlands Stud, Part of Ridgemont. have acquired the Southern Hemisphere covering rights of Canford Cliffs (IRE) to join the farm’s Stallion roster in 2018.
Clearly, market perception of stayers needs to change
A daughter of four time Gr1 winner and 2000 Guineas winner Henrythenavingator in foal to Dynasty topped the charts
You can bid on the classy six-time winner Captain Swarovski – who finished on top of Post Merchants placed runners on Friday evening
The Kentucky Derby has the Freedom Rose, the Preakness has the Black-Eyed Susan and the Belmont has the Carnation. But did you know our Durban July also has a rose named after it?
The son of Machiavellian was a top class racehorse, who began his career with Sir Michael Stoute
Owner Stanley Chan announced the three-time Horse of the Year’s retirement on Friday 13 September at trainer Francis Lui’s Sha Tin stable
SA champion jockey stepped out under the Ridgemont flag for the first time at Hollywoodbets Durbanville today
‘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
