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With just days to the CTS Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale on Friday 21 April at the world-class casino complex in Johannesburg, most of the Cape based candidates have already arrived at the sales venue
It is interesting, although no doubt coincidental, how some years see more than one influential stallion born
The Backworth Stud Dispersal Sale was hosted by Bloodstock SA and held at the magnificent KZN farm on Monday 10 April
The leading sire by aggregate was Snitzel ($20,425,000) with a remarkable 38 of his 39 progeny offered selling, while by average was Not A Single Doubt at $750,000 from three sales
Leading sire Snitzel will be the highest-priced stallion at Arrowfield Stud in the next breeding season with his fee rising from $110,000 to $176,000
The Danika Stud-bred Pen-chan gave Ascot Stud’s late sire Sail From Seattle his eleventh individual 2yo winner this season
The catalogue of 106 mares includes 40 Black-type winners, performers or Stakes producers and 74 siblings to Stakes horses. And for the first time in years, there is a weanling entry of 80.
Medaglia D’Oro joined an elite band of stallions with 100 stakes winners
Described by veteran champion trainer Mike Bass as the best horse he trained who never won a Gr1, Blue Tiger was a top class racehorse
She featured at least once in the pedigrees of all Dubai winners on World Cup-day
