He Ain’t “Heavy”, He’s My Brother
Nothing gets the heart pumping on a stud farm like the arrival of a new stallion and when its Await The Dawn you can count on a huge turnout
11th October 2013
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Nothing gets the heart pumping on a stud farm like the arrival of a new stallion and when its Await The Dawn you can count on a huge turnout
When Summerhill announced Ato was to join the stud’s stallion roster for the 2013 season, he generated plenty of enthusiasm
Those who attended the 2009 National Yearling Sale will remember the hubbub around that farm’s Lot 147, whenever Ato was on parade.
The annual Winter Workshop has become the standout intellectual convention on racing & breeding in SA
Recent overseas results proved again that there are few better judges of horseflesh in this game than former champion jockey Basil Marcus.
It’s now part of the conventional wisdom of the sale that “there’s a horse for everyone at the Ready To Run”
The opinions of the panel are going to be invaluable to anyone needing either assistance or reassurance in what they’re looking to buy
If there’s been a landmark in innovation in the sales scene in the last quarter of a century, it’s the Emperors Place Ready To Run.
Ricky Maingard’s Ice Axe asserted his supremacy over arch-rival IL Saggiatore to win the Gr1 Phoenix Beverages Maiden Cup run over 2400m at the Champ de Mars in Mauritius on Sunday
There’s no blue-blooded South African racing fan who doesn’t remember Wolf Power, and that Ricky Maingard was the man that fashioned him into one of the world’s most formidable milers
It was a good weekend for staying products of both Summerhill and the Emperors Palace Ready To Run programme, Ice Axe (R425,000) and Winning Leap (R70,000) both graduates
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
