CTS Cape Premier Sales Results For KZN Sires The CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale saw KZN achieve success with Middlefield Stud’s Fort Wood yearling out of Linsumi sell for R1million. A half-brother to Wishful Eye (now a broodmare at Piemonte Stud in KZN with a stunning Kahal colt at foot), a Var mare also bred…
The King Of KZN Passes On: Kahal(GB) The most successful son of Machiavellian to have stood at stud in South Africa, courtesy of his owners Shadwell Stud, Kahal was euthanized this morning after complications arose from abdominal tumours. The stallion, KZN’s top sire and in South Africa’s top five since 2009, he was the sire…
KZN-bred Futura Wins Gr1 L’Ormarins Queens Plate In Style Brett Crawford’s outstanding KZN-bred Futura set course for a serious assault on the Gr1 J&B Met in three weeks time, as he stormed to victory in the R1 million L’Ormarins Gr1 Queen’s Plate at Kenilworth on Saturday. A 2012 R500 000 National Yearling Sale graduate, Futura…
King Of Kings Relocated To The Fort Stud A former leader of the National Log For Sires Of Two Year Olds by Stakes Earned, King Of Kings has been relocated to The Fort Stud, owned and managed by Jill Fox. Previously standing at Somerset Stud and Clifton Stud, he was the only son of the…
Guest Column: A Deep Connection 08 January, 2015 – Lisa Barrett The recent retirement of one of Japan’s greatest racemares of the modern age, Gentildonna has once again thrust the Sunday Silence tribe into the spotlight, as talk now turns to who she will be mated to. Gentildonna was primarily a stayer, and one wonders…
KZN Sire Links To Royal Ascot Gr1 Successes With Royal Ascot almost coming to an end – it has yielded some outstanding results with a few horses having direct links to KZN – such as Rathmors new import Noble Tune, Golden Sword, Just As Well and Spectrum. The first to start with is the outstanding…
Summerhill’s Summer Ready To Run Sale: Save The Date
Unbridled’s Song: Noble Tune Arriving; Will Take Charge In Longines Top 10 Equarius Bloodstock has reported that stallion prospect Noble Tune is enroute to South Africa from the United States to stand his first season at Rathmor Stud. The Gr2 and Gr3 winning son of Unbridled’s Song has been enthusiastically received by breeders around the…
Rosier Second In Laisserfaire Listed Voted the Cape’s Juvenile Filly Of The Year at the Cape Racing Awards, Rosier finished second to Cold As Ice at Kenilworth on 27 December in the Laisserfaire Stakes Listed over 1100m, with Varikate and Als Bonanaza placing respectively behind the Kildonan filly. Bred and owned by Mary Slack of…
Breeding Season 2014: Ato Arrives At Summerhill Stud The arrival of a new stallion at Summerhill always stirs the juices. We like to think that to get through the eye of the stallion barn’s needle, takes a racehorse of extraordinary quality and exacting standards. Form, physique and family are the fundamentals, and they need to…