July – A Dream Day!
What a weekend! Who would have thought that would be the result? The Conglomerate was given the most amazing ride by Pierre Strydom
6th July 2016
5 Comments
Thoroughbred horse breeding news, views and opinions from South Africa and around the world. Our columnists and authors share their valuable insights on this fascinating aspect of horse racing.
What a weekend! Who would have thought that would be the result? The Conglomerate was given the most amazing ride by Pierre Strydom
Former L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Gimmethegreenlight, currently South Africa’s Leading First Crop Sire for the season, is yet another exciting young sire from the Royal Charger male line
Africa’s greatest race, prefaced by Johnny Clegg’s Spirit of the Great Heart, was won by a black horse, ridden by a white jockey, trained by an Englishman and owned by an Afrikaner. Rainbow nation indeed.
With Vodacom Durban July fever thick in the air, Bloodstock South Africa’s Sibaya KZN Yearling Sale concluded on Friday at the popular casino resort on the North Coast
A colt by Drakenstein Stud’s red hot resident sire Philanthropist proved the star turn on day one of the 2016 Sibaya KZN Yearling Sale
AE Passmore’s forgotten world record and Full Dress – the greatest July story never told
To lift my spirits, I will be watching the July day in its entirety from a beach lounger in Bali hopefully not scaring too many families while donning my budgie smuggler
Thank heavens for the Lewis Hamilton-style taxi driver who got me to the sales ground in the nick of time.
Military Attack, a son of Avontuur’s resident sire Oratorio, is one of four thoroughbreds up for the award of Hong Kong Champion Middle Distance Horse Of The Year this season
It attracts very little attention in the local press due to it’s being run on the same day as the Vodacom Durban July
Charles Faull digs deep in his vaults for some of the best July stories never told and shares his thoughts on the 2016 Durban July field
Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Greyville feature, the non black-type Model Man Mile, won by Mike de Kock’s Artist’s Model, paid tribute to one of South Africa’s greatest turf legends of the 20th century.
