Avontuur-breds scooped the top prices and overall this remained a highly successful auction, retaining last year’s place as the sale with the second highest median in the land
Top Cape breeders Avontuur dominated the Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale held at the popular Johannesburg hotel and casino complex on Friday, producing the top three lots from just five in their quality draft
John Koster of Klawervlei Stud and Pippa Mickleburgh of Avontuur Stud, who have exciting drafts to send through the auctioneer’s ring, were all smiles on the eve of the 2016 Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale – and for good reason
Buyers get another bite at the internationally sought after Oratorio cherry with two sons of the globally respected stallion in the classy Avontuur quintet that make up ‘Pippa’s Picks’ for Friday’s Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale
Dean Kannemeyer maintained his outstanding strike rate from his Summerveld base and registered his third win in the past five runnings of the Gr3 Byerley Turk
Avontuur’s first entry into the Emperor’s Palace Select Yearling Sale this year is happening in fine style with five excellent colts leading the charge for this prestige event. The group includes two Oratorio’s and a Var
In a shock development, star former Cape based 4yo filly Cold As Ice has run her last race.
Oratorio produced the salestopping colt, while his stablemate Var was responsible for the sales’ top priced filly
The Avontuur bred Val Et Al had shown signs of being a fellow with a future when winning his first two starts on the bounce.
Sean Tarry has enjoyed a winning association with leading Cape breeders Avontuur and he looks to have another very decent sort on his hands
Stalwart stud farm General Manager Pippa Mickelburgh achieved her dream of breeding the winner of the L’Ormarin’s Queen’s Plate for Avontuur Thoroughbred Farm over the weekend, courtesy of the brilliant Sean Tarry-trained Legal Eagle
In this second of a new weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights
This time last week we were looking forward to the 163rd renewal of the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
