Singapore Double for Sale Graduates
The quick double for BSA graduates highlighted the tremendous value for money that can be found in South Africa
23rd April 2014
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The quick double for BSA graduates highlighted the tremendous value for money that can be found in South Africa
Mick Goss is always enthused when it comes to talking about Summerhill horses, but never more so than around sale time.
Varsfontein is a farm that patiently and carefully cultivates its broodmare band and it is a strategy that has been paying dividends.
There was appreciative applause around the sale ring when Mike de Kock went to R3,4 million for Klipdrif’s Master’s Spirit last year.
Middlefield have a total of 6 yearlings (4 colts and 2 fillies). The one likely to draw the most interest is #111, a half-brother to Tippuana Moon by Var.
One of South Africa’s most consistent sires, Kahal has been represented by five stakes horses this season, including the top-class mare Classic Illusion. Currently eighth
Promising young sire Elusive Fort was represented by yet another first crop winner, when his son Elusive Shade won a good race at the Vaal
From just a handful of runners, Ideal World has been represented by 4 horses who have either won or finished in the money.
Along Came Polly (Judpot), a BSA graduate, scored the second Gr1 victory in the Gr1 L Jaffee Empress Club Stakes
One yearling on offer by leading US sire Stormy Atlantic – whose daughter Up With The Birds, was named Canada’s Horse Of The Year for 2013
Dazzling, a daughter of Galileo and a full-sister to G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Roderic O’Connor, hails from the same family as Lot 343 – a Mambo In Seattle filly.
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
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
