SARAH WHITELAW: Last Saturday’s Champions Day was one of the best race meetings in recent times. A card jam packed with quality racing, the on course entertainment was superb– even if not all punters enjoyed the overall results.
SARAH WHITELAW:Views around breeding – is Secretariat a great sire or a dud at stud; the late champion sire Jet Master flies the flag at the National Sales… and more views
SARAH WHITELAW: With the European flat season having just got under way for the 2012 racing season, it is a good time to look at sires who are likely to make their presence felt this year. It is a look at some of the potentially prominent stallions in the Northern Hemisphere for the racing year.
SARAH WHITELAW: Montjeu described as an “eccentric genius” died at 16 years at Coolmore
Sarah Whitelaw: The Gr1 SA Classic has a rich and storied past. Now a R2 million race, the Classic has long been one of South Africa’s most prestigious three year old races.
South Africa’s premier sale has long been established for producing classic horses and top-class middle distance performers. There are a number on offer, whose pedigrees look tailor made for some of this country’s bigger 3yo events. Viewing starts 22 April
SARAH WHITELAW: Mr Prospector was a truly great sire, and a superb broodmare sire. He is arguably best known as a legendary sire of sires.
SARAH WHITELAW: looks back at last years runners in Dubai World Cup – Meteor Shower takes off – G1 win glory for blue blooded mare Celigny – Good start for ill-fated Stronghold
SARAH WHITELAW looking at Golden Chateau’s G2 Gauteng Guineas win at 100-1; the end of the Sizzling Summer review; Royal Academy’s influence in SA
SARAH WHITELAW: Black Caviar and Zenyatta are two of the greatest mares the racing world has ever known. Both champion females won their first 19 starts, and both defeated some of the best males of their generation.
Recently, Chilean superstar, Amani (Morning Raider), put up a gobsmacking performance when she captured a G1 race, over 2000 metres, by no less than 29 lengths. This was a truly breath taking performance, especially considering that it came in a Grade One event.
In this second of a new weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights
