michael azzie

VDJ Supplementary Entry

The first supplementary entries for this year’s Vodacom Durban July have resulted in a single additional entry – an exciting black Argentinian colt called Hat Puntana from the Michael Azzie yard

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Ship Building

Ship Building

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

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Milky Way

Looking Up

People are attracted to good things. They want to be near and part of them. Also – as I ended up experiencing first-hand – good stories, good horses and good people make one feel good about being involved with racing and that positivity spreads

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2016 Val de Vie Yearling Sale

Val de Vie 2016

We take a look at the second BSA Val de Vie Yearling Sale and see how some horses change lives

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An Eastern Cape Dynasty – Good Greeff, Alan!

Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!

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