Top Buys Of 2015
Top priced yearlings have a variable history, to say the least, in terms of top level success. Sarah Whitelaw reviews the best of 2015
21st October 2015
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Top priced yearlings have a variable history, to say the least, in terms of top level success. Sarah Whitelaw reviews the best of 2015
Drakenstein’s promising young sire is on track to defend his Leading Synthetic Sires Crown
Race day positives are bad for our industry and they’re bad for our horses. If we are having so many it begs the question, why are we letting people off so lightly?
“One thing this sale has demonstrated though, is the virtue of mating your mares properly, not always for the height of fashion, but with a view to getting a good-looking horse that can run; fashion as we know, is a fickle mistress, hot one month and dishwater the next.”— Mick Goss / Summerhill CEO
Cannock Chase struck Grade One gold and landed the biggest prize of his career in the CAD$770,000 Pattison Canadian International for Ryan Moore and Sir Michael Stoute at Woodbine
Despite a lacklustre seasonal debut last month, the Gary Player Stud-bred Gr3 Cape Of Good Hope Nursery winner Captain Chaos should be ready to put in a big run in the R2,5 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes
Australian breds fetched the serious money at the Emperors Palace Johannesburg Ready To Run Sale held at Inanda Club Sandton on Sunday, producing five of the top six lots
There have been very few changes on the log since last publication for the CTS Million Dollar which will be run at Kenilworth on 23 January 2016
The Klawervlei Stud bred son of Oracy, Main Submission, has won 3 of his 4 career starts and looks a serious starter for the R2,5 million Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup
Balmoral Stud will be adding notable variety to CTS’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale on Sunday. The Mooi River establishment has an entry of 53 lots, including two imports and representing no fewer than 41 stallions
The promising Victorious Jay, who has now won three of his last four outings, is owned by Mr Ragoonath and Ms Joelle Ng, and looks to be on course for a run in the CTS $1 million race next January
In a remarkable turnaround after a five year ban and many years of application and hard work, jockey Chad Little has been granted a licence to ride again
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.
