A filly and colt by Dynasty made top prices at the National 2yo sale where the average prices for colts and fillies were down, but median prices showed that the middle and lower end of the market recovered from last year’s drop.
The Apache would have left South African shores by now had things gone according to plan, but an outbreak of African Horse Sickness while he was in quarantine forced exports to be suspended. Plan B worked out well for when he came from almost last turning for home to win the Daily News 2000.
Sent off a well-backed 7-2, Gypsy’s Warning tipped out at the top of the stretch and roared past the leaders to win the G1 Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park, for Barry Irwin’s successful Team Valor. Gypsy’s Warning is a daughter of Storm Cat sire Mogok who is half brother to Machiavellian. (more)
Charl Pretorius pokes a bit of fun as we brace ourselves for a rollercoaster ride through the absurd, the outrageous, and the downright unbelievable in South African horse racing
After Saturday’s potentially gamechanging L’Ormarins King’s Plate day, a total of 28 thoroughbreds remain in contention for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
