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Both Rachel Alexandra’s foals have won first time out and Rachel joined an elite band of Gr1 winning champion racemares when her daughter, Rachel’s Valentina, won the Gr1 Spinaway Stakes last Saturday
Once we start bending the rules, we have a broken system, not a broken rule.
The 2015 CTS Johannesburg Ready To Run Sale will be held at the Inanda Club on Sunday 18 October at 14h00
Yellow Star Stud held their Annual Farm Sale under the auspices of Michael Holmes Bloodstock
The Cape Mare and Weanling Sale will be held at Val de Vie in 2016 on the 19th May
Vercingetorix, who traces directly back in female line to 1000 Guineas winner Problem, is the second son of Silvano to retire to stud in South Africa. He has settled in well at his new Maine Chance home and is all set for the 2015 breeding season
Two of the Western Cape’s most popular and well performed young sires could be represented by runners in one of the world’s greatest races come November
Two of the best horses in Singapore are set to lock horns in one of the races of the season this coming Sunday
Some of the Western Cape’s leading breeders rocked up to view Cheveley Stud’s well bred young sire Wylie Hall at his stallion day on Thursday
This past weekend and the upcoming one are pretty low-key in terms of quality and big fields at the turf club, and although times are quiet locally, internationally there is big news to report
The Kevin Prendergast trained Jefferson Davis showed his appreciation of a step up in trip, when bolting up to win by five lengths in a nursery at Killarney – on Drakenstein’s Stallion Day
The Hollywood Syndicate celebrated a milestone 600th winner on African soil when the Danon Platina gelding Luhamba Phambili stormed to victory to win the R200 000 non black-type Need For Speed Sprint
Selwyn Elk writes that he was at Clairwood on a wet Saturday afternoon in the 70’s…
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
