Thursday, April 25, 2013 
Enquiries :
Tarryn Liebenberg +27 (0) 83 787 1982
or email tarryn@summerhill.co.za
www.summerhill.co.za
Thursday, February 14, 2013 
A.P. Arrow (USA)
Greig Muir
The BEST son in Africa of the BEST American stallion of the modern era.
In fact, one of A.P. Indy’s BEST sons of all time.
A.P. Arrow’s first crop are 2-year-olds,
and you get the first bite of the cherry.
Enquiries :
Tarryn Liebenberg +27 (0) 83 787 1982
or email tarryn@summerhill.co.za
www.summerhill.co.za
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 
Admire Main (JPN)
Greig Muir
You wouldn’t have expected this.
Classicly bred, classicly performed, ADMIRE MAIN was
an unlikely sire of high-performance juveniles.
Yet his record to date tells another story.
14 runners - SEVEN winners, FOUR placed horses, TWO stakes performers: ALREADY!
Enquiries :
Tarryn Liebenberg +27 (0) 83 787 1982
or email tarryn@summerhill.co.za
www.summerhill.co.za
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 
Emperors Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale
(Photo : Leigh Willson)
It was Winston Churchill that immortalised the two-fingered sign of triumph, yet those who’ve raised their catalogues at the past two editions of the Emperors Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale, would have good cause to do the same. Not only for the victories they have under their belts, but particularly for the value their intuitions have earned them.
Let it be said, this sale is about those that were left behind by reason of their immaturity, the odd injury on their way to the November version of the same sale, or an “unsold” sticker on their backsides at a previous vendue. Others for their flaws in the good Lord’s architecture which might’ve put buyers and customers off at conventional sales, where the benefit of seeing them run is never on the menu.
Horses are fascinating to look at, not only those with the “look of eagles”. More interesting are the ones that triumph despite their engineering or their lack of illustrious parents, like the Group One performers Pierre Jourdan, Hear The Drums, Black Wing and Imbongi, all unwanted urchins of an earlier era.
Often, the great ones do what they shouldn’t. In the age of computers, satellites and DNA, the racehorse is proof that the maths doesn’t always add up. The one thing good horses all have, is character. When they should’ve lost, they didn’t. No horse can be great without grit. The history of Summerhill at the Ready To Run, is littered with stories of racehorses that have made mockeries of their pedigrees and their prices.
The Emperors Palace Summer Ready To Run is just two-years-old, the first draft consigned to Michael Holmes Bloodstock’s Horses-in-Training event at Shongweni, the second a popular party at Summerhill last February. Those that follow these columns will know that there are already 21 individual millionaires among Summerhill’s recent Ready To Run graduates, with numerous champions among them. Nonetheless, to satisfy the sceptics, we’ve published a list below of the bargain buys of 2011 and 2012, to illustrate the point. Some of these are just beginning their careers, others have been at it for a short while, none of them have reached the halfway point. Others, like Gida, have already been sold on to international interests for many times their original cost.
These are almost irresistible odds, if you go to the Summer Ready To Run page on our website (click here), you’ll understand why. They say there’s gold again in them “veins”, besides a “feed” by Visa/House & Leisure’s No.1 National restaurant.
P.S. There are seven entries which carry a “ticket” for the R3million Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup in November.
Enquiries :
Tarryn Liebenberg +27 (0) 83 787 1982
or email tarryn@summerhill.co.za
www.summerhill.co.za
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 
Enquiries :
Linda Norval +27 (0) 33 263 1081
or email linda@summerhill.co.za
www.summerhill.co.za
