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
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
