Impressive Noble Tune First Foals As Unbridled’s Song Gets Two Gr1’s As Noble Tune’s first impressive foals arrive this season, his grey sire Unbridled’s Song collected another two Gr1’s in a week after Unbridled Forever won her second start of the season in the Gr1 $500,000 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga, and Liam’s Map winning the…
National Yearling Sale – Two Day Results The National Yearling Sale continued its momentum yesterday with the South African record set for a filly [pictured bottom right] sold at R4,750 000 to Mike Rattray, purchased from Lammarskraal Stud – the farm he had sold a few months back. The filly by Fort Wood is out…
The Fort Stud: 10 Winners Bred And Pretrained This Year Jill Fox of The Fort Stud is thrilled to report 10 winners this year along with a number of places, from horses that have come from her lovely farm in Fort Nottingham – either bred, raised, and/or backed and pretrained at The Fort Stud. The…
Why breed in Kwa-Zulu Natal? Ask any stockmen worth his salt and he’ll tell you that the valleys of KwaZulu-Natal carry some of the most generous and productive soils on the planet. Coupled with one of the most reliable rainfalls anywhere, a marvellously congenial climate, a population of some of the world’s best horsemen, the…
Broodmare Feature: Gypsy Queen KZN Breeders Award Winner – Broodmare Of The Year 2011 With Gypsy’s Warning challenging her title for the Matriarch Stakes Grade 1 on 25 November and recently being in the media for selling at the Keeneland November Sale for a price of $1.05 million, we have a look at her dam…
American Pharoah Wins Triple Crown The drought is mercifully over. In the 37th year after Affirmed swept the classics in 1978, Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah toyed with the field of seven other horses to win the $1.5 million Gr1 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. After a good break, the Pioneerof the Nile colt trained by…
NZ Gr3 Win For Broodmare Sire St Petersburg At Trentham in New Zealand, star three year old filly Platinum Witness (California Dane-Chartreuse, by St. Petersburg) scored by two lengths for trainer Lisa Latta in the NZ$70,000 Gr3 Desert Gold Stakes over 1600m for three year old fillies. She went on to win well over fellow…
Broodmare Feature: Pelican Brief Pelican Brief stands at Spring Valley Stud, and is expecting a Mullins Bay foal this season. She is an unassuming pretty bay mare, with two white stockings behind. She also happens to be the dam of the Mike Bass trained Dunford, the 2005 Vodacom Durban July winner. Foaled in 1992, Pelican…
KZN Breeders Awards Nominations 2011 The KZN Breeders Association will be hosting their annual Awards evening at Bellwood Cottages on 25 November. Congratulations to the following nominees: Name Age Sire Dam Breeder Outstanding Two Year Old Filly Extra Zero 2yo Way West Haifaa Summerhill Stud Indigo Princess 2yo King Of Kings Cornflower Blue Mr &…
Great Weekend For Rathmor Stud Rathmor Stud had great success with the half-siblings of their first season sire Noble Tune, as well as local news from the Gatecrasher Listed run at Greyville on Saturday. After Noble Tune’s Bernardini half-sister Lady Serena opened the Belmont carnival with her second win to date, their half-brother by A.P….