The Thoroughbred Breeders Association recently hosted their National Two Year Old Sale for 2015 at the TBA Sales Complex in Gosforth Park.<\/p>\n
Discerning buyers of the best thoroughbred racehorse stock in the country gathered for a last opportunity to purchase from the crop of two-year-old horses that were born in 2013.<\/p>
Emerging African markets are becoming more prevalent in the elite sport of horse racing.<\/p>\n
\u201cResults of the sale showed that five per cent of buyers were of Kenyan and Zimbabwean origin.<\/p>
\u201cSouth African bred horses have recently won all Kenyan listed races making TBA a popular choice for purchases.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are also very few breeders left in Zimbabwe, so the majority of their racehorses are purchased in South Africa,\u201d said Kevin Woolward, chief executive officer of the TBA.<\/p>\n
The top two buyers of horses were Misty Meadows Equestrian Estate and KwaZulu-Natal breeder Vanessa Harrison.<\/p>\n
Vendors who were most successful at the sale were Varsfontein Stud Farm in Paarl, who sold all 14 of their two-year-old horses on offer, followed closely by Gary Player\u2019s Stud Farm in Colesberg in the Northern Cape, with 18 of their 20 horses sold.<\/p>\n
Graduates of the National Two Year Old Sale have proved to be some of the most successful horses, both locally and worldwide, as well as being very good value for money.<\/p>\n
These include JJ The Jet Plane (purchase price R70 000, earnings of over R26-million locally and overseas) and The Apache (purchase price R80 000, earnings of over R18-m locally and overseas).<\/p>\n
More recent graduates are Arabian Beat (purchase price R70 000, earnings of over R837 000), Bezanova (purchase price R150 000, earnings of in excess of R1.6-m) and Trip Tease (purchase price R70 000, earnings of over R1.1-m).<\/p>\n
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