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Well attended by an enthusiastic crowd, despite some weather challenges earlier in the week, the sale was held in perfect conditions, with plenty of interest from all over South Africa
On Saturday Bless My Stars, Time Flies, Silver Darling and Rain In Holland are the proverbial roses amongst the thorns
An attractive and well-balanced catalogue has been assembled for this year’s BSA KZN Yearling Sale
He’s never been tried over further and who knows, the staying influence of both Doowaley and Saumarez may well come to the fore
The half brother to this month’s Gr1-winning juvenile King Colorado smashed the all time record price
Recent Gr3 Track And Ball Derby winner Runaway Song (Legislate), a fancied runner in Saturday’s Gr3 Dstv Gold Vase, is yet another feather in the cap of his broodmare sire Spectrum
‘He was the type of horse that took charge, led the pack and caught the eye of every astute horseman…’
Capetown Noir (SAF) has joined Jackson (SAF) and Moofeed (AUS) as a resident stallion at Advocate Nigel and wife Kat Riley’s Heversham Park
Grey Angel was imported with her dam, the Seattle Slew mare Seattle Sway, by one of the more colourful characters of that era, Dr Hilda Podlas
A catch-up with a top sprinter who has adjusted with aplomb to her second phase career as a broodmare
Despite the ravages of the merciless Cape winter weather, the inaugural CRS Mixed Winter Sale at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on the Youth Day public holiday on Friday produced satisfactory results
‘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?’
