Var Filly Cracks Whip
La Roquette, the top priced lot sold at the 2015 National Two Year Old Sale, impressed when running out a facile debut winner at the Vaal on Thursday
3rd November 2016
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La Roquette, the top priced lot sold at the 2015 National Two Year Old Sale, impressed when running out a facile debut winner at the Vaal on Thursday
A thrilling head-to-head finish got the rain-delayed Super Sunday feature programme under way at Greyville on the final day of the South African horseracing season.
Currently our second leading sire of two-year-olds, Var has been represented by no fewer than 22 individual juvenile winners this season, headed by Listed Ruffian Stakes winner Exquisite Touch and Gr1 SA Nursery runner up Rivarine
Oratorio isn’t a first season sire. Everyone’s heading off overseas trying to find the next big thing, but we’ve got one right here!
Avontuur’s first entry into the Emperor’s Palace Select Yearling Sale this year is happening in fine style with five excellent colts leading the charge for this prestige event. The group includes two Oratorio’s and a Var
Oratorio produced the salestopping colt, while his stablemate Var was responsible for the sales’ top priced filly
Trainer Mike Azzie and jockey Karl Zechner maintained their feature winning streak at Turffontein on Saturday as the Var mare Easy Game ran on best to secure her first stakes win
Trainer Sean Tarry and jockey S’manga Khumalo were unstoppable at Turffontein on Saturday and the powerful combination sealed the juvenile double feature
The Boland Stud-bred 3yo Cup Cake stole the show at Fairview on Friday with a facile victory in the R80 000 Breeders Guineas Plate
We take a look at the second BSA Val de Vie Yearling Sale and see how some horses change lives
The magnificent Val De Vie Estate hosted the second renewal of the BSA Val De Vie Yearling Sale on Sunday afternoon
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
