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One of more than 150 stakes winners for perennial leading sire More Than Ready (whose offspring include Australian sire sensation Sebring), Gimmethegreenlight is a half brother to G1 Coolmore Classic winner Ofcourseican
The son of Danehill ended up as the leading first crop sire by aggregate after two days of trading at the 2016 Cape Premier Yearling Sale
A number of Cape bred thoroughbreds have been entered for the Gr1 Dubai World Cup, which will be run at Meydan on March 26th
The Emperors Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale will be held at Summerhill Stud on Tuesday 23 February. Viewing will be from Friday 19 February.
Umberto Rispoli did not impress me when he came over for the International Day riding under the Italian flag. Maybe he has found a few lengths under the French flag? He did have an extremely attractive girlfriend so maybe there is something to look forward to!
if anyone thinks that racing is rigged, there can be no more emphatic proof that it cannot be the case than Saturday’s result. If ever there was a day – certainly on the South African calendar at any rate – specifically designed to be about the In its magical way, racing prevailed and delivered a fairy tale – the little owners, from the little yard with the little horse and the little jockey won. It’s the sort of story that sells books and movie tickets and, more importantly, the sort of story that sells dreams.
Red hot sire Trippi, whose son, Illuminator, won Saturday’s CTS Million Dollar and whose daughters, Inara and Lanner Falcon, ran 1-3 in the Gr1 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes on the same day, is a stallion with a potent pedigree
The sale also marked the first time that the China Horse Club bought yearlings on a South Africa sale –their purchases including a Var filly for R1.9 million and a Dynasty filly for R800 000
The South African record paid for a thoroughbred yearling at auction was smashed on the first day of the 2016 Cape Premier Yearling Sale on Thursday
AFFLECK up against MAJESTIC MOMENTS would usually get top billing on a Friday night.
With a $55,000 purchase at the Keeneland November Sale, Michel Henochsberg left an indelible mark on thoroughbred breeding. Sarah Whitelaw examines the legacy of Allegretta
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.
