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 the Fort Wood mare Pagan Princess who fetched R4 million (£221,530/€254,085). While the filly's pedigree is unmistakably South African, it was two European buyers who battled it out, with Anthony Stroud seeing

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 North American superstar Zenyatta), won last year’s Paddock, effectively launching her Group One career. Oh Susanna would then go on to win the Group One Sun Met and, in the process, become the first 3YO filly in