HORSE RACING
‘Exceptional’ draft of two-year-olds at CTS Ready-To-Run Sale
The “bullish positivity” prevailing in the bloodstock market is set to continue at Friday’s CTS Ready-To-Run Sale at Durbanville racecourse (6pm start). That is the view of SA’s racing newspaper The Sporting Post, which says “the welcome return of the vital middle market at the recent Johannesburg Ready-To-Run Sale put some pep back in the step of breeders”. The paper reports the sale “has attracted an exceptional draft of entries for its seventh renewal including the offspring of SA’s top five stallions — Silvano (three lots), Var (three lots), Trippi (two lots), Gimmethegreenlight (three lots) and 12 by Maine Chance Farms, Querari”. A total of 117 two-year-olds by 33 sires is due to come under the hammer on Friday evening with a number of the youngsters catalogued being eligible for the two R5m races to be run at Kenilworth in January 2020. Other popular sires represented on the sale include Twice Over (seven lots), What A Winter (five lots), Oratorio (seven lots), Jackson (four l...
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