Speed And Stamina – Rafeef Is A Classic!
Rafeef is fast establishing a fine reputation as a stallion who has the ability to sire stakes winners across the speed and stamina spectrum
11th April 2024
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Rafeef is fast establishing a fine reputation as a stallion who has the ability to sire stakes winners across the speed and stamina spectrum
South Africa’s established and freshman sires will be represented
With the National Yearling Sale around the corner, here’s some new light on an old challenge
The timing of the recent announcement by the SAEHP makes the BSA National Yearling Sale on 18 and 19 April a watershed two days
So what is it about females bred at the Wilgerbosdrift/Mauritzfontein operation that makes them such a force in South African racing?
The Pierro x Winx filly’s price of A$10m eclipsed the previous world record for a yearling filly set in 2013 and decimated the Southern Hemisphere yearling record price of $5m
The only living foal of champion mare Winx has been sold for a world record A$10 million
The success rate of exported mares at stud in other parts of the world has been very high – and greater than most breeders realise
Black Swan Stud offer a small but select draft of five yearlings at the 2024 BSA National Yearling Sale
Top US three-year-old Muth (Good Magic) made it three graded stakes wins from just six career outings when he won Saturday’s Gr1 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park
The outcome of this year’s renewal of the Listed Kings Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville no doubt delighted pedigree purists
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
It’s time for our racing regulators to accept and understand that they are part of the game, and not outside of it, above it, or bigger than it
