3rd July 2012
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ROBYN LOUW: ‘Whoever said money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping’. Over the next few weeks, it seems there is rather a lot of happiness on offer.
The best thing about a Ready To Run Sale, unlike other sales of racehorses, the evidence is right there in front of you. The acid test is the racecourse, and you’ve either got it, or you haven’t.
Thabani Nzimande wins the scholarship at the Al Maktoum School of Excellence and heads for the National Stud
Racing people have always been superstitious, and Friday 13th has long carried its own demons. For Summerhill, it was a black day with the sudden death of the Dubai star, Bankable.
Where in the world do you get the package on offer at the Emperors Palace Ready To Run? Besides the R2million jackpot up for grabs the day before, the innovations connected with the sale are unique, not only to South Africa, but anywhere.
SARAH WHITELAW: When Fox Hunt won Sunday’s German St Leger he became the second German classic winner produced by Dubawi’s second crop. The stallion’s other German classic winner had previously been Waldpark (Deutsches Derby).
ROBYN LOUW: With racing becoming such a competitive pursuit, new ways to entice new people to the track to show them how much we have to offer is needed
The first three weekdays after the Durban July now belongs to Summerhill’s Winter School. It is one of the better investments I’ve made in some years, writes Alec Hogg
Jallad mare Blushing Summer, in foal to Cape stallion Trippi, topped the Natal broodmare sale
A series of specialist lecture programmes forms part of the School of Management Excellence curriculum. Mike de Kock, Jehan Malherbe and John McVeigh form part of the lecturer line-up
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
