Ascot Raid A Highlight
Emperor Max arrived in Newmarket on the 27th of September and by all accounts is thriving in his prep for Saturday’s Qipco Gr1 Champion Sprint at Ascot
15th October 2015
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Emperor Max arrived in Newmarket on the 27th of September and by all accounts is thriving in his prep for Saturday’s Qipco Gr1 Champion Sprint at Ascot
There won’t be any sideshows featuring buskers, elephant men or bearded ladies when CTS hosts the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale at Sandton’s Inanda Club on Sunday, but the innovative Cape-based bloodstock company is making an entertaining weekend of it all the same!
Lammerskraal’s in form sire Go Deputy is currently riding a remarkable wave of success. What makes the son of Deputy Minister’s success all the more noteworthy, is that he is doing it from very small numbers
The Champion Stakes was first run in 1877, when it was won by top class performer, Springfield.
Jane Thomas of Far End Stud believes that she has a ‘money horse’ for Sunday’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale hosted by CTS at the Inanda Club in Sandton, and not without good reason!
Uncle Den doesn’t simply love his horses, he genuinely savours each character with their individual quirks and seems to enjoy trying to get to the bottom of each of his charges. It is a privilege to spend some time with him and his visiting string
Connections are reminded that entries close at 11h00 on Monday 19 October, with supplementary entries accepted up to 09h00 on Friday 23 October
Six of the first eight winners of the Emperors Ready To Run Cup have come from Summerhill gallops, with 59 stakes winners and 27 equine millionaires emerging from the various Summerhill R2R drafts in the same period
I cannot wait to get back to Kenilworth – and hopefully the new course – as soon as possible. I am sick and tired of this ridiculous system of entering horses at Durbanville and then drawing 45 or 50 and the fields then end up with only eight runners
The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale drew to a close at Newmarket on Thursday with South Africa’s Mayfair Speculators having made a big impression with 12 lots bought for 4,075,000gns
The Charles Laird galloper is in something of no-man’s land on the log for the CTS Million Dollar which will be run at Kenilworth on 23 January 2016
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.
