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…
More Foals From Rathmor Stud Rathmor introduces more foals each from Jumeirah Beach – an outstanding colt by Mogok(USA), and a beautiful filly by King’s Chapel(AUS) out of Fields Of France, from the end of the 2012 foaling season. Fields Of France, by Val de Bois, has produced a beautiful King’s Chapel(AUS) filly this year….
Rathmor’s Gypsy Queen Produces Kahal Colt KZN Breeders Broodmare Of The Year for 2011, Gypsy Queen, produced an outstanding Kahal(GB) colt on 11 October for Rathmor Stud. Mike McHardy describes the colt as: “a large plain bay, that is very athletic-looking.” A half-brother to three-time Gr 1 winner in the USA and South Africa, Gypsy’s…
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…
Backworth Stud: It’s Always A Relief When The Last Foal Of The Season Is Born It is always a relief when the last foal of the season is born, where Miss Unimac delivered a beautiful A.P. Answer colt. Even more exciting for the foals, was our first full sunny day in what seems…
Backworth Scoops KZN Breeding Achievement Award Backworth Stud are extremely proud and excited to have received the KZN Breeders’ Achievement Award at the 2012 KZN Breeders Awards Dinner. With 3 nominations for the evening, and winning this ultimate in awards, it was a humbling tribute to the commitment of all our team on the farm,…
From The Horses Mouth We penned a piece yesterday on those “magnificent men and their flying machines“, and we were talking about our judges panel for next week’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Gallops (at Summerhill on Friday 19th October 11 am). Summerhill’s inauguration of the Ready To Run was initiated by the belief that…
KZN Stallions Represented In The Kenya Derby Tomorrow The Star newspaper in Kenya reports that tension is mounting as the 2012 Derby day draws, to be run 1 April at Ngong. “The most talented seven horses have been entered for the contest and it is expected the connections alike will play a big role in…