Breakfast At Avontuur
Oratorio isn’t a first season sire. Everyone’s heading off overseas trying to find the next big thing, but we’ve got one right here!
5th April 2016
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Oratorio isn’t a first season sire. Everyone’s heading off overseas trying to find the next big thing, but we’ve got one right here!
Avontuur’s first entry into the Emperor’s Palace Select Yearling Sale this year is happening in fine style with five excellent colts leading the charge for this prestige event. The group includes two Oratorio’s and a Var
The sale will also be the first time that viewers can watch the breeze live via the Tattersalls website within the Sale Day Live window
In Great Britain in 2015 there were 3,226 registered breeders and just under 90% had four broodmares or less. Yet, despite having this group of potential racegoers that are already deeply engaged, racecourses do very little to encourage breeders to attend the races more often.
The sale will be preceded by a Cocktail Party and Charity Poker Evening in the Gladiator’s Poker Room on Thursday evening, 14 April
Impeded at the start? Hope like hell that your runner doesn’t finish in the top four
The 2016 CTS Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale will be held at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg on Friday 15 April
Cape Cross, the sire of outstanding performers Golden Horn, Ouija Board and Sea The Stars, has been retired from covering after suffering from fertility problems this season.
Horses are like paintings: people will only pay what they think they are worth and that was very much the case a couple of weeks ago
Throughout history, there have been a number of extremely promising sires who died after leaving just a couple of foal crops behind
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.
