Never Bend – a legacy
SARAH WHITELAW: When Never Bend, a son of one of history’s greatest sires Nasrullah, retired to stud in 1964, he had a lot to recommend him.
13th March 2013
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SARAH WHITELAW: When Never Bend, a son of one of history’s greatest sires Nasrullah, retired to stud in 1964, he had a lot to recommend him.
LANCE BENSON: Are we marketing the game correctly? This crossed my mind after spending Sunday at Durbanville in the company of a few dirty pigs in the parade ring
ROBYN LOUW: In 1974 Tony Kalmanson established Varsfontein Stud just outside Paarl and the Kalmanson name has been a fixture on the local racing landscape ever since.
SARAH WHITELAW: Musir follows an illustrious group; Lassie Dear legacy; Noordhoek Flyer foals; Pablo Zeta’s golden years
ROBYN LOUW: I kicked off my week with a chat to Richard Maxwell one of the world’s leading Horse Whisperers
LANCE BENSON: We really cannot cry foul when we get nailed six love in the betting arena.
SARAH WHITELAW: Kip Elser on the trail forworld class bloodstock at value for money prices..
Grant Pritchard-Gordon: The power of marketing should never be underestimated and the British thoroughbred industry could take lessons from the Cape Thoroughbred Sales
ROBYN LOUW: I’ve been a long-standing fan of the blonde bomb that is Striker Strydom. . . . .
SARAH WHITELAW: Byword arrives; Soft Falling Rain in Dubai; Caviar’s remarkable hatrick
ROBYN LOUW: The internet is a weird, wide and wonderful place and attracts an incredibly diverse mix of people and so I found Folly – a spanking good read.
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
