Summerhill Sales will be offering an exceptional draft at this year’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale. The draft includes two-year-olds by such proven and popular stallions as Duke Of Marmalade, Trippi and Visionaire, as well as a large number of youngsters from the first crops of Summerhill Stud’s exciting G1 winning sires Act Of…
Summerhill Stud, as agent, will be offering six classy two-year-olds at November’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale. Watching Closely (Lot 3) is a filly by short-lived G1 Middle Park Stakes winner, and prolific sire of juvenile talent, Crusade. This filly, a half-sister to two winners, is out of a four time winning Kahal own…
The Ato gelding Chijmes confirmed again that he is no slouch when leading all the way to win the R150 000 Listed Sea Cottage Stakes at Turffontein on Sunday to give claiming apprentice Denis Schwarz his first feature success. Summerhill also produced Gr3 2nd placed Running Brave in the Gr3 Three Troikas.
The Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale exceeded all expectations with KZN’s Summerhill Stud and Far End Racing Stables leading the first two places on the top Vendors list.
#kznbreds at the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale, 4 November. #kznbreds will be easily identified with Hip Stickers and stable door posters. View the lots available as well as those who have Black Type siblings in brackets.
Log 29/10 Log 22/10 Age Sex Horse MR 1 1 3 F RAILTRIP 100 2 2 3 F THE SASH 85 3 3 3 G CHIJMES 87 4 4 3 F VI VA PI PA 79 5 5 3 G CHECKPOINT CHARLIE 83 5 5 3 G PATROL OFFICER 83 7 7 3 F SEE…
A survey of racing success as a factor of how much money you spend was recently undertaken in Australia. While its outcomes were “Aussie” specific, it’s probably fair to say, they’re likely to have universal application wherever horse racing is conducted as a serious commercial pursuit. The answer, rest assured, is that the more money…
The superbly bred Equus Champion Capetown Noir is strongly represented in the Summerhill Sales draft at the 2018 Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale, which is due to take place at the TBA complex on November 4th.
Nobody worth his salt in the sport of racing needs an introduction to Pat Shaw – he’s as much a totem of the game in South Africa as Vincent O’ Brien was to Ireland and Bob Baffert to America. You don’t reach those heights as a racehorse trainer without a gifted eye, an abiding intuition and dare we say it, a smattering of courage and “chutzpah”. While some of those legends might’ve chosen to be excluded from the latter category, there’s no escaping it for Mr Shaw.
“The BIG movers towards qualification for the tenth renewal of the world’s first Ready To Run sales race, turned up at Turffontein on the weekend. While the odds of getting a run this year are better than they’ve ever been (16 out of a catalogue of just 50 odd,) it’s getting hot at the top of the log, with the Group One performer, Railtrip, setting the benchmark.”