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Every year sees new stallions making their debut with their first runners. While the majority of these fail, due to either lack of opportunity or lack of ability, a few will become top class sires
It’s tantamount to booking a table at the Grill ‘N Butcher and then finding out when you are seated that they only serve fish!
When horses do wonderful things, they inspire feelings like nothing else on earth. The story of Something Else, the wonderful things he did, the feelings he inspired and the wonderful people who care for him
A Medaglia d’Oro colt became the first seven-figure offering during the first session of the Keeneland September yearling sale
The employment and training processes of our racing regulator should be in the dock – rather than a man who really was just doing a job he obviously is not competent to perform
The catalogue for the 2016 CTS Ready To Run Sale,Presented by Lanzerac Hotel & Spa, is now available online
Simple Verse, the champion daughter of Drakenstein Stud’s Cartier Champion sire Duke Of Marmalade, bounced back to winning ways with a gutsy victory in Thursday’s Gr2 DFS Park Hill Stakes
While a small handful of sires dominated the South African General Sires List, the broodmare sires list features a number of outstanding sires, who either stand or stood at stud in South Africa
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
Bloodstock South Africa will be holding their annual Cape Yearling Sale on Thursday 16 March 2017 at Mistico Equestrian Centre
Klawervlei Stud have announced that they will be offering a brand new App
A man we are privileged to have known as a loyal friend of this great game and of the Sporting Post, a personal mate, and one of South African horseracing’s great characters, Shaheen Shaw, a husband, loving Dad and Grandad, passed away suddenly at the age of 55
