First Winner For The Assayer
The Assayer has produced his first winner and looks to have more with Thomas Shelby and Flirty Girty knocking on the door.
Crusade Winners!
Paul Lafferty’s handsome chestnut Buckleberry, bred by Alan and Vera Sutherland of Somerset Stud, impressed to win at Greyville after being unlucky in his three prior starts – finishing in 2nd place in all three previous attempts.
Summerhill Win Sea Cottage Listed
The Ato gelding Chijmes confirmed again that he is no slouch when leading all the way to win the R150 000 Listed Sea Cottage Stakes at Turffontein on Sunday to give claiming apprentice Denis Schwarz his first feature success. Summerhill also produced Gr3 2nd placed Running Brave in the Gr3 Three Troikas.
#kznbred Dawn Assault Wins Gr3 London News Stakes
#kznbred Dawn Assault has snatched the Gr3 London News Stakes from favoured Al Danza and Pietro Mascagni (a R2,3-million yearling). Second to Tilbury Fort in the Gr1 Summer Cup, Dawn Assault is yet another feather in the cap for owner / breeder / trainer St John Gray.
KZN Cracking Start For 2019!
KZN got off on the right foot in 2019 with six winners from nine races carded at Greyville on 1 January.
Just As Well Sibling Wins British Listed Race
The Tapit half-brother to Spring Valley sire Just As Well won a Listed race in England yesterday. The chestnut colt named Wissahickon beat home Big Country (High Chapparal) by over two lengths clear.
Rathmor Update: Impressive Stats From Farm And Stallions
Noble Tune was very well supported in his first few seasons at stud with full books each year, and the stats show that he has only had 34 of his progeny on the tracks to date and 11 of them are winners, giving Noble Tune a lifetime winners to runners percentage of 32%.
The Apache Flying At Stud
“Similarly, horses with a GBV of 1 have the highest genetic probability of producing elite racehorses and passing on favourable genetic variants to their offspring, when compared with other horses assigned a lower score.”
First Winner For Capetown Noir!
Triple Gr1 winning sire Capetown Noir is off the mark, a very pleasing start for the Summerhill sire by Western Winter. Brandina, out of Var mare Bedouin from the family of Fair Brutus and Grand Format, won impressively on debut this afternoon in Fairview in one of the first juvenile races of the season. Bred…
Curved Ball To Feature At Turffontein
Bush Hill Stud report that they have had 11 winners for the season so far and achieved over a million in earnings for their owners, with two wins this month and seven 2nd places (from 16 places in total), which should convert to wins very soon. The honest Kahal gelding Aramouse, a full brother to Gr2 winner…