KZN Breeders Million Mile Supplementary Entries And Weights The supplementary entries and weights are in for the upcoming KZN Breeders Million Mile, but also see Las Ramblas being scratched from the field. See the supplementary entries in bold below. The Million Mile is incorporated into the KZN Breeders’ Race Day which will take place 1…
Just Bluffing Wins 2012 Kenya Derby Just Bluffing, a son of Badger’s Drift, pulverised his opposition in winning the prestigious Grade 1 Derby in Kenya over 2400m today. The highlight and most prominent event at the Ngong racecourse is the annual Kenya Derby which was first held in 1914. Having never raced further than 1800m,…
Foals From Clifton Stud For 2012 A visit to Clifton Stud in early December revealed outstanding foals by Peter Blyth’s exciting young sire, A.P. Answer. Big, athletic foals that are very muscular, they are all stamped by their sire and a fleeting glimpse of his first crop of yearlings in Clifton’s paddock revealed very good-looking…
Exciting New Developments For KZN Breeders Race Day 2013 Thoroughbred breeders in KwaZulu-Natal have initiated some unique marketing strategies over the years but under the umbrella of the KZN Breeders’ Club they have embarked on their most ambitious project yet with the announcement of the KZN Breeders Day to be held at Greyville on Sunday,…
Bush Hill Stud’s Weekend Racing And Award Success Bush Hill Stud had a good weekend at the KZN Breeders Awards as well as on the racetracks across South Africa and in the North with Zimbabwe’s top three year old Newton Power. Newton Power, by Newton out of Red Spirit by Slew The Red, has now…
Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards Tonight The Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards takes place tonight in Durban with a number of KZN-bred and associated horses amongst the nominations. One of the Champion Two Year Old Female nominees is King Of King’s daughter King’s Temptress. The filly made an unforgettable debut in April at Turffontein, winning…
Monterosso Wins Dubai World Cup The Blood-Horse.com reports that Monterosso took command in mid-stretch and powered home to easily win the $10 million Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) at Meydan Racecourse March 31. The 5-year-old horse by Dubawi provided Godolphin trainer Mahmood al Zarooni with a one-two sweep in the race, as…
Love Struck Wins Guineas Trial Love Struck, owned by Alesh Naidoo and Anthony Govender, won the Guineas Trial Listed on Saturday at Clairwood in soft going, as part of the International Jockeys Challenge. Ridden by Anton Marcus and trained by Paul Lafferty, the son of Kahal defeated Wind Trip (by Trippi) over 1600m followed by…
Backworth Stud: Look Out For This Filly At Next Year’s Sales Earlier this week we shared with you the news of the arrival of Tsunami’s beautful ‘pure’ black filly foal by King’s Chapel. Here is Tsunami’s spectacular grey yearling, a filly by Silvano – probably one of our top yearlings for next year’s Emperors Palace…
Dancewiththedevil Does KZN Proud Once More! KZN-Bred Dancewiththedevil, under Gavin Lerena, won the Grade 1 Horse Chestnut Stakes for the second year in a row at Turffontein today in convincing style again, this time by almost 3.5 lengths (she won last year by 5.5 lengths) from Rudra and Solo Traveller with Kavanagh finishing fourth. Kavanagh…