Shongweni sale

what did Elle rassa go for ?

Solotrama Wrote:

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> what did Elle rassa go for ?

She wasn't sold.

if any one bought on the sale and are looking for partners, I might be able to buy the short end of a tale or two. Let mre know through PM and i will take a look at it.-D

gregbucks Wrote:

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> Great going Titch...
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> What did BEACHES go for?

R50k, I think. Don't take my word for it, though.

what is this horses price tag Magic ? Do you have any idea ?

Solotrama Wrote:

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> what is this horses price tag Magic ? Do you have
> any idea ?

No, but if I remember they turned down R20k.

magiclips Wrote:

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> R50k, I think. Don't take my word for it, though.

Sorry more questions, who bought Beaches?

gregbucks Wrote:

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> Sorry more questions, who bought Beaches?

On checking what I wrote in my catalogue Beaches went for R40k, not R50k, but I didn't see who bought him. The price list should go up on the Michael Holmes Bloodstock website today or early next week, I hope.

Thanks I will check the website later....

I'm a real novice at this sales thing but I think this horse has some potential, don't have the sales catalogue with me but if I'm not mistaken has been lightly raced(Problems no idea)... Reason I asked who bought it cause I think I marked it as a ''ideal'' horse for the sand?? ...

Didnt know this sale was on this week,they should advertise on SA`s busiest horse racing website ()

Beaches going to PE to Goerge Uren. Colin Naidoo bought out partners.

magiclips Wrote:

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> Years ago in the very early days of merit ratings
> I went to the Shongweni sale, had a few (or more)
> drinks with Laff, and waited for a horse in the
> supplementary catalogue that Laff was selling.
> The horse was called Railrider and the owner
> wanted out. Laff reckoned the horse wasn't quite
> finished yet and with the new handicapping system
> I figured out that Railrider could run in races
> where he stood a chance. I was as pissed as
> anything by the time the horse came into the ring,
> I bought him for R1000 and Laff and I went 50/50.
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> He won three races before the end of that year and
> ran a bunch of places. The first time he won for
> us was at Scottsville in July and he paid
> something like R67 for a win. Some genius wrote a
> letter to the Sporting Post complaining that Laff
> in his on course preview had deliberately misled
> the public by saying that Railrider had a small
> place chance, or something like that. Because,
> you know, if we had in fact made him a certainty
> and kept it to ourselves the horse would have paid
> R67 for a win...NOT.
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> Back in the days when I used to go on TV with Laff
> or any other presenter to preview races I'd try
> and make a point to not go on if I had a runner in
> the race. You're on a hiding to nothing, but you
> srtill get those rocket scientists who believe
> that the connections always know how a horse of
> theirs will run and they must be lying if they get
> it wrong.


Did Railrider have some sort of Testicle problem ? One more question did Railrider win a race at Greyville just after the July when the Garden Province Stakes was moved to a Wednesday.