Spectrum’s Six-Time Gr 1 Winning Granddaughter Retired In December 2001 at the Tattersalls sale in Newmarket, England, the American breeder and owner George Strawbridge paid nearly $750,000 for Ventura (by Spectrum standing at Yellow Star Stud), a stakes-placed filly who had been bred and campaigned by the legendary trainer Vincent O’Brien. She came from one…
Approval Rating Wins Gold Cup Sprint Listed The Scott Bros’ son of Miesque’s Approval, Approval Rating, took home Borrowdale’s Gold Cup Sprint Listed, for a stake of R150 000 over 1200m. Another KZN-bred, Newtown Power bred by Bush Hill Stud, finished in fourth place. Trained by Gokhan Terzi and owned by Mr Armstrong, Approval Rating…
Kahal’s Coronet Peak Performing In Singapore Comeback galloper Coronet Peak notched his fourth win on the trot when successful in the $75,000 Kranji Stakes C over 1200m on the Polytrack on Friday night. Ridden by Alan Munro, Coronet Peak scored a fighting neck victory over Single Act (Shafiq Rizuan) with Machfive (Saifudin Ismail) a length-and-a-quarter…
Exciting Young KZN Sires – First Runners First Places Two of KZN’s most exciting young sires, A.P. Answer and Fort Beluga, have had places from their very first runners to hit the track, both in the same race at the Vaal on 28 November – Snow Call and Arrive At Five. Both horses were sent…
Kildonan – Four Winners From Seven Runners! Kildonan has started his started his stud career with clear parallels to his brilliant racing career – with sheer excellence. A phenomenally talented racehorse who won his first four starts consecutively by a combined eight lengths (his third start winning the Gr 1 Premiers) his progeny have made…
Spanish Harlem Gets First Winner The impeccably-bred Spanish Harlem has got his first winner, filly Sweet Harlem winning on sand at the Vaal by almost two and half lengths over 1200m. Owned by Mr Ramphelane Mathunyane and bred by Mr Robert Muir, Sweet Harlem was part of the first sales draft of Midlands Thoroughbreds that…
International News From Summerhill Sires St Petersburg’s son Solzhenitsyn’s Group One sweep of the “Toorak”, the son of Summerhill resident St Petersburg, had made himself a member of an elite club. According to the European Bloodstock News, his second successive victory in this historic event, confirmed his rating as one of the best milers in…
Just As Well Relative Gets Gr 3 Win At Ascot A close relative of Gr 1 winning sire Just As Well, Secret Number by Raven’s Pass won the Gr 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot on 5 October over 2400m, storming to victory by two and half lengths from Royal Empire (Zeofilio) and Gatewood (Galileo)….
Arrival Of Await The Dawn Summerhill’s new sire for the 2013 season has arrived – the much anticipated Await The Dawn, pictured with Peter Choice (breeder of recent Gr 2 Emerald Cup winner In A Rush) of Choice Carriers and stallion handlers’ Greig Muir and Themba Zuma. A son of world champion sire Giant’s Causeway…
Spectrum’s Fabulous French Gr 1 Double The Gr 1 Prix de le Foret, run on the classic French race day which incorporates the Arc de Triomphe, turned out to be a spectacular one for Yellow Star’s resident sire Spectrum – who not only had the honour of being the broodmare sire of winner Moonlight Cloud…