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Main Man Striking Timing is everything, no doubt about it. Who would have thought that a stallion of Admire Main’s pedigree and aptitude would be a sire of quality juveniles. It just goes to show, class counts. While Admire Main ran off with his juvenile debut over 1400m by some seven lengths, it was late…

Is Igugu In The Next Ready-To-Run Draft? We’ve had a couple of queries about whether the next Igugu is in this draft. Here is our response to that question: “I guess the answer is “you never know”, because they often come from “left field.” What I can tell you is that this is probably the…

Press Release: There’s A Horse For Everyone There’s something about a racehorse auction that you find nowhere else. Not at Sotheby’s nor Christie’s, nor anywhere. By the nature of the beast, a racehorse evokes a greater passion, considerably more ego, and there’s nothing a rich man wants more than something another rich man wants. You…

From The Horses Mouth We penned a piece yesterday on those “magnificent men and their flying machines“, and we were talking about our judges panel for next week’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Gallops (at Summerhill on Friday 19th October 11 am). Summerhill’s inauguration of the Ready To Run was initiated by the belief that…

Those Magnificent Men And Their Flying Machines There are a number of things that make the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale unique, locally and abroad. Firstly, its associated race, the R2.5 million Ready To Run Cup boasts the richest prize money of any race of its kind in the world. When it was initiated…