Joburg residents are used to traffic jams, but we could get a horse jam in Midrand this week with 235 two-year-olds in town for the last big sale of the year — the Emperors Palace Ready-To-Run, scheduled for Thursday and Friday evenings.The Randjesfontein training centre — the base for many trainers including Sean Tarry, Mike de Kock and Geoff Woodruff — will host the sale for the first time. The starting time on each day is 6pm.The carrot being dangled to buyers is entry into three rich CTS races — two each worth R2.5m to be run over 1,400m at Turffontein and Kenilworth in 2017 as well as the R1m Kuda Sprint on Sun Met day 2018.As usual, Mick Goss’s Summerhill Stud has the largest draft with their stallion Visionaire having the largest representation followed by Await The Dawn and Brave Tin Soldier.The country’s top sires including champion Trippi, Dynasty, Captain Al and Silvano will have offspring there, so it is understandable that the Sporting Post describes the sale as a "no-b...
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