What’s In A Name?
Imagine Frankel being called “Spot” or American Pharoah running as “Hot Diddly Dawg ” – or Sea Cottage appearing as “Huisie by die See”. Doesn’t quite work as well, does it?
10th March 2016
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Imagine Frankel being called “Spot” or American Pharoah running as “Hot Diddly Dawg ” – or Sea Cottage appearing as “Huisie by die See”. Doesn’t quite work as well, does it?
Truly a sale in a million! The 2016 renewal will have some 240 yearlings go under the hammer, all of them potential candidates for the two $500k races over 1200m and 1600m in January 2018
While precocity certainly adds to a sire’s commercial appeal, even today, it is clearly not essential for a top sire to have been a top 2yo
Graeme Koster’s Rosedene Stud is well represented with 16 foals from the Karoo farm to go through the auction ring at the CTS March 2016 Yearling Sale
The National Yearling Sale takes place on Wednesday 27 April, Thursday 28 April and Friday 29 April, 2016 at the TBA Complex at Gosforth Park in Germiston
The stallion market need not be that much of a lottery. With some savvy you can definitely load the odds in your favour, writes John Freeman
As with many other aspects of thoroughbred breeding there are different theories about buying, or not buying, first foals. The CTS March Yearling Sale catalogue offers some interesting options…
Truly, this is a phenomenal record for any mare, and Plucky Liege’s influence today can still be felt through the deeds of the numerous high class performers to have emerged from the Fappiano male line.
What relevance is it to the punter if we have R100 000 in the win pool, or R1000 000?
The catalogue for the CTS March Yearling Sale to be held at Durbanville Racecourse on 19 and 20 March is now available online at www.capethoroughbredsales.com
People are attracted to good things. They want to be near and part of them. Also – as I ended up experiencing first-hand – good stories, good horses and good people make one feel good about being involved with racing and that positivity spreads
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.
