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The blue blooded Visionaire, who is from the same male line as current sire sensations Iffraaj, Wootton Bassett, Speightstown and Quality Road, will stand his first season at Lammerskraal this year for a stud fee of R40 000
Drakenstein Stud’s exceptional young sire Duke Of Marmalade was back in the headlines this weekend
The market proved strong and buoyant throughout two days of trading with a Silvano colt the top-seller
The first session of the BSA National 2yo Sale was completed on Thursday evening with a Captain Al filly topping the billing at R800 000
The colt likely to get the catalogues waving in session 2 on Friday is a three-part brother to Triple Crown winner Abashiri
Nijinsky II, the last horse to win the English Triple Crown, was a truly outstanding stallion.
Golfing great Gary Player’s the Gary Player Stud Farm (Pty) Ltd has an exceptional draft on offer at the National Two Year Old Sale which starts on Thursday
South Africa’s leading owners Mayfair Speculators were active at the Arqana sale on Monday spending more than 2 million euros when buying two beautifully bred Galileo fillies within a matter of minutes of each other
On 8 July 2016 the NHA announced that it had taken the decision to wind down the Riders’ and Trainers’ Benevolent Fund. We try and find out why and what it means going forward
I remember how Dynasty battled for mares in his 3rd and 4th season, even after we’d cut his fee in half – people wouldn’t listen
Look at the Gallery of 2yo’s that qualify for Million Rand races, come under the hammer on 18-19 August at the TBA Sales Complex
Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Greyville feature, the non black-type Model Man Mile, won by Mike de Kock’s Artist’s Pride, paid tribute to one of South Africa’s greatest turf legends of the 20th century.
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
