THE last thoroughbred sale of 2007 came to a momentous end on Sunday night when a record aggregate of R16.075 million was recorded at the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale, ...

The maximum field of 14 runners will go to post in the inaugural Listed R500 000 Emperors Ready To Run Cup, to be run over 1400m at Turffontein’s Inside Track on Saturday. ...

BUYERS at Sunday’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale will be making bold notes in their sales catalogues as reminders to “Tick the Box” that will qualify ...

AN exciting and eventful weekend lies ahead for all concerned with the first Emperors Palace Ready-To-Run Cup at Turffontein on Saturday, 3 November and the Ready-To-Run ...

WHEN Mick Goss was asked after last Friday’s Ready Top Run gallops at Summerhill Stud where he would watch the Rugby World Cup Final on Saturday night, he replied: ...

It’s all systems go for Ready to Run gallops at Summerhill and James Maree’s Training Centre

THE Ready to Run gallops ...

Last Saturday, on a warm and dry afternoon, a rare combination in Ireland this year, Racing South Africa’s hospitality marquee was a hive of activity at the famous ...

SEVERAL of the smaller breeders performed with distinction at the 2007 Emperors Palace National Two-Year-Old Sale which came to an end at the TBA Sales Complex on Monday ...

RACING SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTION AT THE CURRAGH RACECOURSE
 
South Africa is one of the most sought after tourist destinations in the world. As the South African race ...

14 August 2007
Pendulum swings the way of buyers at Emperors National Two-Year-Old Sale

WHEN the 2007 Emperors Palace National ...

7 August 2007
Emperors Palace National Two-Year-Old Sale is a certainty for potential champions and good value

IRRIDESENCE, ...

26 July 2007
Entrepreneur Phindi Kema (36) of Addo in the Port Elizabeth district, has acquired Elandskraal Stud from the estate ...

26 July 2007
FOLLOWING its phenomenal sales during the first part of 2007, Bloodstock SA will present the Emperors Palace 2007 National ...

16 July 2007
High prices at Horses-in-Training Sale boosts overall Sibaya Sale to record-breaking 60% increase

6 July 2007

THE first session of BloodStock SA’s Sibaya Yearling Sale held at the Sibaya ...

Friday, 6 July 2007

THE buoyant state of the South African racing industry was confirmed on the eve of the Durban July when records ...

Infinite Spirit and Chant De Nuit are the plums on offer at Sibaya Horses-in-Training, Mare and Weanling Sale

CLASSY three-year-old ...

26 June 2007

THE progeny of 72 stallions will come under the hammer at the Sibaya Yearling Sale on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 July at the Sibaya Casino ...

18 June 2007

THE 2007 Sibaya Yearling and Mixed Bloodstock Sale was launched with the presentation of the sales catalogue during ...

12 June 2007

FOLLOWING the record breaking 2007 Emperors National Yearling Sale, BloodStock SA in conjunction with the Sibaya Casino and Entertainment ...

29 May 2007
R130 000 GrandWest Yearling Sale purchase swells her kitty to almost R1,3 million

8 May 2007
The 2007 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale drew to a close at the TBA Sales Complex last night with its sixth successive record aggregate and average.

8 May 2007
Windrush filly Diana’s Choice banked an extra R800 000 for landing today’s Grade 3 Kenilworth Fillies Nursery, courtesy of Sun International’s ...

4 May 2007
Four lots fetched more than R2 million during the Select Session at the opening night of the 2007 Emperor’s National ...

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2 May 2007
COOLMORE Stud representatives Michael Kirwan and Tom Magnier will be arriving in South Africa on Wednesday night, courtesy of an invitation from Justin ...

2 May 2007
THE Taberer family’s Avontuur Stud has consigned 15 young horses to the 2007 Emperor’s Palace National Yearling ...

3 May 2007
Klawervlei Stud’s resident stallion National Emblem has no less than 40 representatives at the 2007 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, one of ...

Barry ...

Stronger catalogue, buoyant markets point to record breaking National Yearling Sale

A buoyant thoroughbred market worldwide combined with the fact that the Johannesburg ...

BloodStock SA’s marketing manager, Byron Kennedy, has resigned from the post he held for the past 15 months to join CNBC Africa as Market Analyst & Presenter with ...

Massive GrandWest incentive for Kenilworth Fillies Nursery

For the connections of Diana’s Choice, Gandhara ...

13 April 2007
It’s full steam ahead for the 2007 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, which takes place on 4, 6 & 7 ...

12 March 2007
Johannesburg businessman Chris van Niekerk smashed the record purchase price for a yearling at the GrandWest Yearling Sale when he bid R750 000 for Zandvliet ...

A South African-bred sprinter, National Colour, shared top honours as the country’s best equine crowd pleaser for the 2005-06 racing season, and the Equus award was unusual. The country’s ...

OVER the last six years, the Thoroughbred Breeders Association (TBA) and its sales arm, BloodStock SA, (BSA) have made massive strides in steadying a boat rocked by stormy seas, hoisting ...

“RACING WITHOUT BORDERS’’ was the theme of the 31st Asian Racing Conference held in Dubai from 21-25 January 2007. The Conference welcomed horse racing administrators, industry participants ...

JUST more than 10 years ago, few could have foreseen that an aggregate, even for the premier bloodstock sale in South Africa, would break the nine-figure mark. The only major horse sale ...

ON the sponsorship front, 2007 started off with a bang for BSA and the TBA with the joint sponsorship of a New Year’s Festival of Racing at Kenilworth.

The Festival incorporated the Grade ...

AS Chairman of the TBA, Altus Joubert is on the Executive Committee of the National Horseracing Authority (NHA). As such he represents South Africa’s breeders on the

NHA’s ...

SEASONED horsemen Tobie Spies and John Kramer are the individuals charged with examining yearlings offered by breeders around South Africa during the important process of selection.

This takes ...

NAPOLEON Bonaparte said: “You can’t pay a soldier enough to die, but he will fight long and hard for a coloured ribbon!” Similarly, a sense of pride, victory and glorious achievement ...

THE TBA co-founded Racing South Africa in August 2005 to look after matters of national and international interest on behalf of its equal third shareholders: the Racing Operators, Owners and Breeders. ...

THE phenomenal achievements of trainer Mike de Kock in Dubai and the top class performances of four star fillies, in particular, focused the eyes of the racing world on South Africa in recent years.