CTS Yearling inspectors John Kramer, Kerry Jack and Ric Wylie on Friday completed a two-week journey through the Western Cape and the Karoo, scoring yearlings for the 2020 Cape Premier Yearling Sale, scheduled for 16 January, a week after the...

Three Two Charlie (6-1) scored a convincing 1.50-length win for trainer Candice Bass-Robinson, jockey Greg Cheyne and owner Rod Mattheyse in Saturday’s Listed Sophomore Sprint over 1200m at Kenilworth. Three Two Charlie was quoted only fifth on the boards behind...

A Cape Thoroughbred Sales (CTS) inspection team comprising of New Zealander Ric Wylie, Kerry Jack and the evergreen John Kramer have started yearling inspections for January’s 2020 Cape Premier Yearling Sale. Wylie, whose expertise lies with “conformation and assessing what...

Runners bought at CTS Sales won some of South Africa’s most prestigious Gr1 contests in the 2018/19 racing season. Nine CTS graduates won 10 Gr1’s between them. Five were among the Equus Awards nominations in various categories and two won...

Bjorn Nielsen, owner-breeder of staying superstar Stradivarius, was born and raised in Cape Town. As a child in the mid-1960s, he used to listen to thoroughbred races on the radio, as there was no television in South Africa at the...

Cape Premier Yearling Sale graduate Kasimir has all but secured the 2018/19 Equus Champion Sprinter title. Justin Snaith’s high quality galloper drew on his class and fought hard to win Saturday’s Gr1 Mercury Sprint under Richard Fourie, posting his seventh...

The Gr3 eLAN Gold Cup over 3200m at Greyville on Saturday was well won by Joey Ramsden-trained Dynasty filly Dynasty’s Blossom, second in the Gold Vase on Vodacom Durban July Day. Four-year-old Dynasty’s Blossom, in the hands of the talented...

Trainer Joe Soma bought Got The Greenlight for a paltry R110,000 at the 2018 CTS April Sale, and the colt’s breeder Hassen Adams of Nadeson Park kept a share along with Soma’s patron Dayalan Chinsammy. After his superb win in...

Entry forms for the 2019 CTS Ready To Run Sale and the 2020 Cape Premier Yearling Sale are available for downloading from the CTS website. The potent and popular Ready To Run Sale will take place on Friday, 22 November...

The Vaal yard of veteran trainer Tobie Spies enjoyed a marvellous day at Greyville on Saturday when they came away with three winners at the Durban July race meeting, including CTS purchase Van Halen, who won the Non-Black Type eThekwini...