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Siddeley is the latest stakes winner to emerge from a proper dyed-in-the-wool South African dam line, that of Victory Moon, Royal Air Force, Wild Hyacinth, Imbongi, Spring Garland and Hidden Beauty
While Direct Hit’s immediate family stands up to scrutiny, it is members further back in her family who made a huge contribution to the turf
A trio of fillies by Gold Standard topped the 2025 Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale at Quercus Park on Monday
Sandwiched between January’s CRS Summer Sale and next month’s Premier Yearling Sale in a competitive and rapidly evolving thoroughbred sales environment, the BSA Cape Yearling Sale on Sunday held up well in year-on-year comparitives off a substantially reduced catalogue
The BSA Cape Yearling Sale will be held from 12h30 today at SARDA Centre in Constantia
A short notice sale held under the auspices of Cape Racing Sales to dissolve a partnership saw the promising Gimmethegreenlight colt Malmesbury Missile go under the hammer
A stallion described as a kind and gentle soul, and a leading international Grade 1 winner producing sire, Avontuur’s Danehill son Oratorio has sadly moved on to his forever paddock in the sky
Oldlands Stud will be offering a classy consignment at Sunday’s BSA 2025 Cape Yearling Sale
The auction will be held in the Parade Ring shortly after the all-clear is given for the final race
The breeders of this season’s Betway Gr1 Summer Cup winner Atticus Finch and Gr1 Cartier Paddock Stakes winner Double Grand Slam, will be bringing another quality consignment to this Sunday’s BSA Cape Yearling Sale
The Cape Breeders Club will honour their stars of the 2023/24 season at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
