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
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
