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Jet Master stallion Pomodoro, South Africa’s leading freshman sire of 2017/18, has left Klawervlei Stud to join the Riley family’s Heversham Park Farm in the Daleside Valley of South Gauteng
A reminder that the Vercingetorix Syndicate has a much sought-after nomination for the highly anticipated 2023 season available
Maine Chance Farms’ resident Querari made headlines at Turffontein on Saturday; with sons Quantum Theory and Sheldon finishing first and second in the Listed Betway Spring Spree Stakes
The Cape Racing Ready to Run & 2yo Unbroken Sales Race will be staged at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday, 21 October, with the sale at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Sunday, 22 October
‘Addabar is a horse that will be worth ‘Benjamins’ and that’s the language we will talk’ – MJ Odendaal
The late great Galileo and his progeny dominated feature race action at last week’s York Ebor meeting
As an owner/breeder, she also tasted success in South Africa with the Mike de Kock-trained filly Festival Of Fire
The post-covid exponential growth curve and revival of the South African thoroughbred sales market continued as the curtain came down on the 2023 BSA August 2yo Sale
Day 1 of the BSA August 2yo Sale at the TBA Sales Complex in Johannesburg saw some spirited bidding on Saturday, with the 137 lots sold of the catalogued 150, grossing an encouraging R25 905 000
Many of South Africa’s top farms have strong drafts on offer, and hopes are high that the positive trends seen at recent thoroughbred auctions will continue at the Two Year Old Sale
The BSA August 2yo Sale gets underway today at 12h00, and continues on Sunday from 11h00
‘I am writing this as an older, small breeder and in our language, Markus, because this is our war. If I phoned you, I’d be overwhelmed by business jargon within a minute. What makes you so angry that you don’t care what you are doing to our shaky industry? How do you deal with this in your inner, quiet self?’
