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Some horses are born to be rock stars. November Rain surprised everyone by being a sprinter, defied the odds by surviving a road accident and is now excelling in his second career
30th May 2017
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Some horses are born to be rock stars. November Rain surprised everyone by being a sprinter, defied the odds by surviving a road accident and is now excelling in his second career
Advocate Joubert is known to the SA horseracing and breeding industry as the breeder of recent newsmaker National Colour, South Africa’s Horse of the Year in 2006
It is fitting that in the anniversary week of his greatest triumph in the 2010 Daily News 2000, Dynasty’s multiple Gr1 winning son Irish Flame sired his first winner
‘A very good looking horse, correct and powerful and he was a racehorse of the highest class. He was tough and genuine. A joy to train!’- Dermot Weld
Drakenstein Stud’s Duke Of Marmalade is the sire of tough-as-teak gelding Big Orange, who made it group win number five at Sandown yesterday
County Kildare is a world away from the rustic rural setting of Piketberg but Bennie van der Merwe and his Moutonshoek team will have their eyes firmly focussed on the Curragh on Sunday
The TBA Council have elected Piemonte Stud’s Mr Lee Scribante as their new Chairman and appointed Catherine Hartley as the new CEO
Maine Chance Farms proprietor Andreas Jacobs is behind the move to stand the first son of champion Sea The Stars to be based in this country
Leading US sire, Distorted Humor, continues to make his mark in the world’s greatest races
Of special interest to South African breeders is that she has been covered by More Than Ready, the sire of a young stallion on the tips of everybody’s lips at the moment in Gimmethegreenlight
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’
