It gives Bush Hill Stud great pleasure to announce that we will be standing a new sprinting sire for the 2017 season in MUSTAJEEB, the fastest colt to come out of the famous sire producing Allegretta family of champion sires Galileo, Sea The Stars and King’s Best. In fact every group winning colt to go to stud from the family has become a Gr 1 sire, including MUSTAJEEB’s close relative Tamayuz.
The KZN-bred fillies racing on Saturday’s big Gr1 sprint day at Scottsville include several entries into the Gr1 Allan Robertson, whilst Paul and Beth Gadsby-trained Vision To Kill will contest the Gr1 South African Fillies Sprint.
Invitation to the Noble Tune Stallion Day. A bus service will be on offer, along with lunch and live music.
Piemonte’s Stud’s Celestina pictured as a yearling. Unsold at the National Yearling Sale, the daughter of Kahal out of Sully’s Landing is already Gr3 2nd placed from two starts from the stable of Sean Tarry. KZN BREEDERS SERIES POINTS AS AT 22 MAY 2017 -2YO LOG No. Horse Age Sex Trainer Breeder Points 1 CELESTINA…
The well related Firth Of Tay proved the star attraction at Thursday’s Cape Mare Sale, held for a first time at the Mistico Equestrian Centre. The full sister to Kildonan was consigned by Wilgerbosdrift, the mare was knocked down to John Kramer for R300 000.
The Summerhill Mare & Weanling Sale took place on Sunday in icy conditions, which saw 184 horses catalogued, amongst them the dams of Rabada, Royal Pleasure, Love Struck, Intergalactic, Witchcraft and multiple Black Type producer, Surfer’s Eye.
Starting off in KZN and later purchased by Mauritzfontein, the Gr1 winning young sire Byword, whose half-brother Finche made a stunning winning debut at Deauville on Sunday, was represented by his first winner when first crop son Talk Wrench won over 1000m on Monday at Flamingo Park.
The War Front Coolmore-owned half-brother to Noble Tune and Honor Code is making waves in Ireland after a six length victory for trainer Aiden O’Brien at Navan in Ireland. Save The Date for Noble Tune’s Stallion Day 2 July at Rathmor Stud.
Witchcraft, Africa Rising, Pagoda, The Elmo Effect and Bold Viking are amongst the KZN-bred or by KZN Sire entries for the Vodacom Durban July.
Considering the minority of the numbers of horses produced in KZN compared to the neighbouring provinces, two of them – one a KZN-bred, the other by a KZN sire, came very close to securing Gr1 victories but finished close second each. There were plenty of results over the weekend which saw KZN-breds place closely in…