Average and median prices up, more big prices, and a strong middle market. Foreign money, and lots of local big spenders. When the buyers admit it’s hard to buy a nice yearling, then the sale is a success.
The National Yearling Sale saw the aggregate, average and median prices all rise significantly.
CEO Tom Callaghan is pleased with double digit growth, but admits smaller vendors have struggled
Ten lots in the first session of the 2014 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale have fetched R1 million plus.
Pleasing day at the sales after Louis The King provides the pre sale kicker with his Triple Crown thriller on Saturday
The 2014 National Yearling Sale has it all
Catalogue and physical checklists on how to buy a horse – for prospective buyers of thoroughbred racehorses.
Mary Slack: “I was a real horsey girl, a riding loony and my primary interest was riding. Racing came later, and the breeding later still.”
Remember the Kimberley Gold Rush? Fortunes were made and famous names emerged in the decades that followed. Barney Barnato, Cecil John Rhodes, and Ernest (later Sir) Oppenheimer.
It is one of life’s pities that we reward marketing before we reward excellence and quality is so often overlooked in favour of quantity
Snaith star runs in a a capacity nationally representative field for the 129th renewal of the R5 million Hollywoodbets Gr1 Durban July!
Patience rewarded for the blue and white powerhouse while Team Valor’s Quid Pro Quo is on her way to Jerome Reynier in France
In perfect weather conditions, an enthusiastic record crowd – probably larger than that seen at many local racemeetings – turned out to enjoy coffee and pastries and watch their big race fancies going through their paces
SplashOut-sponsored Apprentice Savanna Valjalo broke the ice at Hollywoodbets Greyville at her 11th ride under rules on Wednesday
