SA Mares in Aus Sale
SARAH WHITELAW: Looks at SA Mares strong in Aussie Sale, Shergar’s Legend and The Jallad Impact
14th February 2013
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SARAH WHITELAW: Looks at SA Mares strong in Aussie Sale, Shergar’s Legend and The Jallad Impact
SARAH WHITELAW: Martial Eagle, the longshot winner of Saturday’s J&B Met, is the latest Gr1 winner bred on one of the most successful cross in thoroughbred history.
ROBYN LOUW: Now he’s the Met winner and on top of the world. These are the stories we keep coming back for.
ROBYN LOUW: Celebrations, but Judy Brannigan cautions that the industry needs to acknowledge the importance of the small breeder
SARAH WHITELAW: John Koster pays tribute to the former champion race horse, and successful sire, National Emblem has died.
ROBYN LOUW: “They say money doesn’t buy happiness. But it does buy books. And that’s sort of the same thing.”
SARAH WHITELAW: Champion sire for five consecutive seasons, Jet Master’s last crop of yearlings go through the sales ring this year.
LANCE BENSON: I believe it was author Robert C Gallagher who suggested that change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. And it is indeed strange that the racing operator would have allowed the sponsor to tinker with the veritable ATM machine that is the J&B Met.
ROSE LEHEUP: I returned from the UK just in time for the L’Ormarins Queens Plate day where I had the best days racing and most fun I have ever had on a racecourse.
ROBYN LOUW: Queen’s Plate 2013. I was a little nervous after a couple of days of rain and then a pumping South Easter, but the racing and weather gods conspired to deliver a perfect days racing.
Plenty has been written of the unrest in the farming community in the Western Cape. However one needs to be ask if this is a fair picture overall
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
