Backworth Stud present a few of their 2016 foals, photographed 11 March.
Boasting superb pedigrees, they are by sires Flower Alley, Soft Falling Rain, Var, Oratorio, Potala Palace, What A Winter and Byword and boast leading pedigrees from around the world – including damlines of Redoute’s Choice and Bela-Bela.
Backworth Stud have produced multiple Graded and Stakes winners including Gr1 Allan Robertson winner Chocolicious, First Again, Colour Of Courage, First Again, Raise The Bar, Variometer, Blingle Bell and Aquavit, Varlet amongst others.
Africa’s Biggest Race Day Arrives The big day has finally arrived with the running of the Vodacom Durban July taking place this afternoon. Gavin Van Zyl discusses Eton Square and comments from Gary Alexander regarding Pierre Jourdan, as well as the hope that lies with Lady De Winter bred by The Avalon Stud, a horse…
Backworth Stud: Lunch With 3A Racing Syndicate And Friends The weather this week in KwaZulu-Natal was just beautiful and Backworth is looking quite magnificent at this time of year – not to mention our National Yearling Sales draft which are looking really good too! We welcomed 3A Racing Syndicate’s James Everett and Wesley Bowman, with…
Tribute To Hector Lawrence – KZN’s Oldest Breeder Turning 100 Hector Lawrence is a life member of Gold Circle, and during the 1960’s was an owner, trainer and breeder. Hector owned Devon Stud in Mooi River later selling it on to be renamed Regent Stud. He then built on the adjourning farm selling to Kevin…
Early Thanksgiving For Backworth Stud We looked at the Sporting Post statistics for the 2011-2012 season, and have to say how proud we are. From just 37 runners, Backworth Stud ended up in 30th place on the National Log with R2,272,386 earnings, and from there 1st position in Places to Runners of 38%, 2nd position…
The next log of the KZN Jockey and Trainers Challenge, being run in partnership by the KZN Breeders Club and Gold Circle, sees Antony Hotspur take the lead, whilst Lyle Hewitson continues his leadership for the second week running. The talented Antony Hotspur also gave KZN Breeder Bruce Campbell a double victory on the day,…
International News For Young Sires Byword(GB) and Golden Sword(GB) Zatsfine, a half-sister to South Africa’s exciting young sire Byword, won a good race in France on Thursday. The daughter of Oasis Dream won a smart race over 1400m at Dieppe, enhancing her future stud value in the process. She won the Prix Nicholas and has…