Stallion news

First Stakes Win For Brave Tin Soldier Brave Tin Soldier’s impressive colt Rabada notched up two notable milestones when cruising to an impressive victory in Saturday’s R135 000 Listed Gatecrasher Stakes at Greyville. He not only enjoyed the honour of being crowned a first stakes winner for his beautifully bred sire but was also a…

American Pharoah Wins Triple Crown The drought is mercifully over. In the 37th year after Affirmed swept the classics in 1978, Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah toyed with the field of seven other horses to win the $1.5 million Gr1 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. After a good break, the Pioneerof the Nile colt trained by…

NZ Gr3 Win For Broodmare Sire St Petersburg At Trentham in New Zealand, star three year old filly Platinum Witness (California Dane-Chartreuse, by St. Petersburg) scored by two lengths for trainer Lisa Latta in the NZ$70,000 Gr3 Desert Gold Stakes over 1600m for three year old fillies. She went on to win well over fellow…

Great Weekend For Rathmor Stud Rathmor Stud had great success with the half-siblings of their first season sire Noble Tune, as well as local news from the Gatecrasher Listed run at Greyville on Saturday. After Noble Tune’s Bernardini half-sister Lady Serena opened the Belmont carnival with her second win to date, their half-brother by A.P….

Noble Tune News: Second Win For Sister Lady Serena After winning her maiden in a serious fashion by more than seven lengths, Lady Serena followed this up with a strong second win at Belmont over 1600m from just four career starts. Owned and raced by Dell Ridge Farm, she broke well and maintained a forward…

A Dynasty: Irish Flame To Carry The Torch Exciting news broke last night from the CTS Book 1 sale with a South African sales record made by a top-priced Dynasty colt, Shining Knight, reaching a massive R5,2million and a Dynasty filly following for R3.7 million. Dynasty is hot right now with the likes of Yellow…

50-1 Fastnet Rock Filly Throws A Curve Ball At Gr1 Oaks At Epsom The mighty Curved Ball pictured at Bush Hill Stud. His first yearlings are on sale this year. Qualify caused a huge upset in the Oaks on Friday when staying on from the rear to nail favourite Legatissimo in the shadow of the…

Visionaire’s First Winner Romps Home By Almost Seven Lengths On Debut Visionaire had his first winner at Scottsville yesterday over 1000m, the two year old filly Royal Pleasure showing plenty of speed to annihilate the field on debut by close to seven lengths for her owners, the 3 A Racing Syndicate (Nom: Mr W A…

Sarah Whitelaw Visits KZN Sarah Whitelaw with Rathmor’s first season sire, Noble Tune(USA). A top breeding and racing journalist both locally and internationally, Sarah Whitelaw visited a few of our breeding establishments in KZN, from Eston to Mooi River last week in unusually warm weather for the KZN Midlands winter. A lady passionate about pedigrees…