23 May 2013 - 9:30am champagne breakfast, sale starts 10:00am, Kleinplaasie, Worcester.

BloodStock South Africa would like to say "Thank You" to all the breeders, underbidders and buyers at the 2013 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale for making it such a successful sale.

Well done to 3rd leg Triple Crown winner: WYLIE HALL

WYLIE HALL takes the third leg, followed by GOTHIC in 2nd place and WILD ONE a good third.

Well, there are quite a few. Just search for "Formgrids" on YouTube and a wealth of tips and other videos are revealed. Thanks to John Sweet who made most of the videos.

CHERRY ON THE TOP wins all three legs of the Triple Tiara. The Formgrids team congratulates trainer Ormond Ferraris, and the owner, Mrs B D Oppenheimer. This is a remarkable achievement.

The Charity Turf Challenge is an exciting competition that offers fans of the sport of horseracing a unique opportunity to test their skill – after all, racing is the “Intelligent Bet!”

Racing South Africa, the competition host, will provide entry forms with a guide list of horses that are thought to be campaigning in KZN during Champions Season. Only horses from this list are eligible.

Leg 1: 2 March 2013 - R1-million Gauteng Guineas (G2) - 1600m (Turffontein standside))

Leg 2: 30 March 2013 - R2-million SA Classic (G1 - 1800m (Turffontein standside)

Leg 3: 27 April 2013 - R1.5-million SA Derby (G1) - 2450m (Turffontein standside)

Leg 1: 2 March 2013 - R500,000 Gauteng Fillies Guineas (G2) - 1600m (Turffontein standside)

Leg 2: 30 March 2013 - R1-million SA Fillies Classic (G1) - 1800m (Turffontein standside)

Leg 3: 27 April 2013 - R750,000 SA Oaks (G2) - 2450m (Turffontein standside)

We did an experiment to see if a non-racing person can use Formgrids to predict winners.

Sprinter Sacre was seemingly on a hiding to nothing when he lined up for the Queen Mother Champion Chase at this year’s Cheltenham Festival. He had been odds-on favourite for the race for months and he simply had to win, and win well. The opposition was thin on the ground and the only horse for which any case could be made was the eleven-year-old Sizing Europe.

For studiers of English racing please note that there will be horses not showing form where the horses had previously run in France. The form would be from French racing, which, we at Formgrids currently are unable to get hold of.

Well done to 2nd leg Triple Crown winner: LOVE STRUCK

LOVE STRUCK beats TELLINA by a nose in the S A CLASSIC (Grade 1) 2nd Leg of SASCOC Triple Crown.

2nd in is TELLINA (the 1st leg winner) and 3rd place goes to GITIANO.

CHERRY ON THE TOP wins both of the legs run so far. Wow - what a performance.

2nd place goes to DO YOU REMEMBER (again!).

3rd place to JET BELLE.

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It is hard to believe we are in March already – amazing how time flies when you are having fun! We have experienced some top class racing already this year, with a world class Sizzling Summer campaign in the Cape leading into an electric Highveld Season.

We are now in the build up to the 2013 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale and are very excited about our catalogue which is chock a block with blue blooded yearlings waiting to be unearthed in the annual yearling pickers convention.

TELLINA wins the R1M BETTING WORLD GAUTENG GUINEAS (G2) at Turffontein by half a length.

2nd in is WAR HORSE and 3rd place goes to KILLUA CASTLE.

CHERRY ON THE TOP wins the R500K- WILGERBOSDRIFT GAUTENG FILLIES GUINEAS (G2) by over two lengths.

2nd place goes to DO YOU REMEMBER.

3rd place to KING'S TEMPTRESS.

Trainer Duncan Howells gets a treble at GREYVILLE with ROSIE THE REBEL, REGAL EAGLE and CUP OF RUBIES.

Trainer Corne Spies had three winners at Kimberley. They won by 14.75l collectively.

Well known Dr S C Davis had 5 runners in Kimberley in two days of racing (28 Jan and 18 Feb) - all of them running into the money. All five were trained by Vernon Rugg.