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Avontuur-breds scooped the top prices and overall this remained a highly successful auction, retaining last year’s place as the sale with the second highest median in the land
Top Cape breeders Avontuur dominated the Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale held at the popular Johannesburg hotel and casino complex on Friday, producing the top three lots from just five in their quality draft
What has now become the status quo, we have a Sunday off prior to a Group 1 meeting the following week
The discerning will know that the first progeny of the world class Await The Dawn, by far his father’s best product of the 2013 season, make their debut today at the CTS Emperors Palace sale in Johannesburg
John Koster of Klawervlei Stud and Pippa Mickleburgh of Avontuur Stud, who have exciting drafts to send through the auctioneer’s ring, were all smiles on the eve of the 2016 Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale – and for good reason
Buyers get another bite at the internationally sought after Oratorio cherry with two sons of the globally respected stallion in the classy Avontuur quintet that make up ‘Pippa’s Picks’ for Friday’s Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale
It is interesting to note the trends of various sire lines, represented by the new stallions with their first local crops on the upcoming yearling sales
Breeder Mike Sharkey of Highlands Farm Stud watched his 21-strong consignment for Friday’s Emperors CTS Select Sale stretch their legs on Wednesday morning…
Some 200 yearlings go under the hammer at Emperors Palace, the second year that this CTS Select sale takes place at the casino venue. Everything you need to get the roll of the dice in your favour is right here…
I see July nominations are coming up today. It is ridiculously early. Who knows what’s going to happen over the next three months? What do they want? A list of irrelevant names?
Yearlings from leading stud farms around the country have arrived safely at Emperors Palace and Casino for Friday’s CTS Select Yearling Sale, at which 189 choice lots will go through the auction ring
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.
