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Bright Future For Hadlow Orphans
Foaling season each year brings a mixed bag of emotions for breeders, whilst the hours of selecting pedigrees come to fruition from August each year with the hopes of a safe foaling and a good sort delivered, as with any animal husbandry there can also be setbacks. The highs equal the lows and every breeding…
BSA Sales Cup Double For #kznbreds
Last season’s Equus Champion Mrs Geriatrix made her eagerly awaited return to the racetrack a successful one when she won Saturday’s Bloodstock SA Sales Cup (Fillies) (1450m) convincingly. Under a confident Richard Fourie, the Sean Tarry trained three-year-old put her head down where it mattered most to claim the R180 000 first place prize by…
Rathmor Stud Double
Rathmor Stud enjoyed a double at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday. Both horses are owned by Mario Ferreria, trained by Louis Goosen and ridden by Chase Maujean, and both celebrated their fifth career win respectively. Rodriguez (Twice Over – Jane S Piddy) has now won twice in a row over 1950m and a mile respectively. His…
Rabada On Show, Breeder and Racing Incentive Announced
Twice Grade 1-winner Rabada was very well received by a packed Summerveld clubhouse in an unusual stallion day on Saturday for which he was transported down form his home at Wartburg’s Bloomhill Stud down to the KZN’s only major training centre. The former Mike Azzie-trained Brave Tin Soldier stallion won the Gr 1 Premier’s Champion…
Eden Roc First Mares Scanned In Foal
Peter Blyth who stands Eden Roc on behalf of the KZN Breeders Club at Clifton Stud, was delighted to announce that the Gr1 winning son of Var has his first mares confirmed in foal. The half brother to star Sandringham Summit, recently bestowed with the Equus Champion 2YO Award, is an exciting acquisition for KZN…
Rabada Stallion Day for 16 September
Former Gr 1 Premier’s Champion Stakes and Gr 1 Daily News 2000 winner Rabada was left out of the annual Sires Catalogue and therefore he will be transported down to Summerveld on 16 September for a “Stallion Day”. Sandra Tretheway of Bloomhill Stud in Wartburg said, “We’re going to bring him down to the people…
Hat Ticks The Box In the Cape
Blue Sky Thoroughbreds’ sire Hat Puntano got off to a start last year with Givers Grace (bred by Wynnholme Stud) winning second time out for Carl Hewitson, and from very limited representation on the track, he has produced his second winner for Glen Kotzen at Hollywoodbets Durbanville. Owned by Mr Jaime and Mariza Vilela, who…
Kalil Three Winners One Week
Gerald and Karen Kalil enjoyed a tremendous week, breeding three winners and owning another three individually and in partnerships. Gerald has been breeding horses since the early 90’s, with their first mare being Kunnenburg on Faan Botha’s farm in Stoffberg near Middelburg. After that, they have stood mares in KZN with the likes of the…
Rabada Back To Back Wins
Bloomhill Stud resident sire Rabada, a Gr1 winner at ages 2 and 3, has seen his progeny frequenting the winners box almost 50% of the time last season and he looks to be continuing the momentum. MJ Odendaal’s Addabar, which is Rabada backwards, looks a smart sort and has now won back to back over…