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Prominent owners Basie and Suzette Viljoen are hopeful that their success on the racetrack will spill over into the sales ring when they make their Cape Premier Yearling Sale debut on Thursday
One of the most fascinating aspects of this week’s Cape Premier Yearling Sale is the first crop of Hawwaam who was Equus Champion Three Year-Old Colt in 2018/19
The Cape Racing Premier Yearling Sale, now powered by Tattersalls for the second successive year, has traditional unearthed quality that has gone on to set the race tracks alight, and even become established stallions and broodmares themselves
The Raceform Buyers’ Guide is a detailed summary of the dam and siblings of the CRS Cape Premier Yearling Sale yearlings
Peter de Beyer’s boutique breeding operation Black Swan Stud offers a quality quartet at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale on 25 January
Oldlands were chosen as outstanding breeders of South Africa and the Western Cape in 2020/21 and have indeed bred high-class thoroughbreds over the years
Avontuur Thoroughbred Farm typically features prominently on the winners to runner’s ratio as well as high up on average earnings per runner (AEPR) stats and will be sending six representatives to the Cape Racing Sales CPYS ’24 to be staged 25 January at the CTICC
Buffalo Bill Cody showed tremendous ability as a racehorse winning six of just ten starts – and reeling off six wins from his first seven starts
The countdown has begun to one of the crown jewels on the South African racing calendar
Julia Pilbeam’s Soetendal Estate has been an industry leader in the Ready To Run sales domain for over seventeen years and will be represented for the first time at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale next week
Star 4yo Charles Dickens has been retired and will take up stud duties at his place of birth, Drakenstein Stud from the 2024 season
After Saturday’s potentially gamechanging L’Ormarins King’s Plate day, a total of 28 thoroughbreds remain in contention for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
One World made good for master trainer Vaughan Marshall to give the Milnerton veteran his maiden success in the 164th renewal of the L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate courtesy of his son One Stripe at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday
