Time is running out for buyers to secure yearlings from the final crop of South African champion sire Captain Al, and that caused fevered demand for his progeny at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale in Cape Town on Wednesday.

Trade was headed by a daughter of Captain Al and...

Australian-bred Oh Susanna reminded everyone again on Saturday why she was named South African Horse of the Year in 2017/18, by capturing the prestigious Group One Paddock Stakes over 1800m at Kenilworth.

Fittingly, the daughter of Street Cry (also sire of Winx and Nort...

With the major European yearling sales having been and gone, Amy Lynam caught up with seven bloodstock agents to get their highlights of the past few months. Having bought at all levels of the market in multiple countries, they take a moment to reflect on the yearling...

Grant Pritchard-Gordon of Badgers Bloodstock returned

to his home base Newmarket, UK, on Wednesday after assisting Kerry Jack and John Kramer with the inspection and approval of yearlings for the 2019 Cape Premier Yearling Sale. 

“Badger”, as he is known, made some inter...

Australian bred mare Oh Susanna took the top honours at South Africa’s annual Equus Awards where she was crowned Horse of the Year and Champion 3YO Filly for the 2017-18 season.

The daughter of Street Cry and US G2 winner Sharp Susan enjoyed a remarkable season with a h...

Champion sire Redoute’s Choice was represented by his 160th stakes winner when his son Super Maxi recorded an all-the-way victory in the Listed Belmont Newmarket in Perth on Saturday.

It was his first success beyond 1100 metres which puts a Perth summer sprint campaign...

The exciting three-year-olds just keep on coming for Camelot and on Sunday it was the turn of Alounak (3c Camelot-Awe Struck, by Rail Link) to advertise his Classic credentials.

Trained by Jean-Pierre Carvalho for Darius Racing, the French-bred travelled...

It took the family four decades and seven second cheques – and fifteen years on his own – but Justin Snaith probably couldn’t have scripted a greater Met icebreaking fairytale if he had written the chapter himself.

A first Snaith Met win, the first 3yo filly to win the...

MINT JULEP (Mastercraftsman) ran out a runaway six-length winner of the Prix du Grand Camp at Lyon Parilly.  Sent to the lead by Delphine Santiago, she drew readily clear in the straight and kept on strongly to the line.  This was a good training performance by John Ha...

German raider Distain (5m Champs Elysees-Market Forces, by Lomitas) continued an excellent weekend for Champs Elysees when securing a G3 success in Milan on Sunday.

Distain bore down on front-running Alambra in the closing stages of the 1m 2f G3 Premio Verzier...