Summerhill Announce Second Stallion Acquisition For 2012, Traffic Guard(USA) While the sireline of the champion American stallion, Halo, is only sporadically represented in South Africa (Sunday Silence’s son, Admire Main, at Summerhill Stud, is a rare exception), it has suddenly made the spotlight through Gimmethegreenlight (by More Than Ready), a stand-out three year old of…
First Winner For Sire Mullins Bay Croke Park, bred by Somerset Stud, produced the first win for Mullins Bay(GB), standing at Summerhill Stud. This is Mullins Bay’s first crop to race. Croke Park sold for just R20 000 at the 2011 KZN Yearling Sale, and has earned almost R50 000 in his first start/win. It…
First Winner For KZN Sire Lion Tamer Lion Tamer, standing at Avalon Stud in the KZN Midlands, had his first winner in the second race for Maiden two year-old fillies at Scottsville over 1200 metres with Lady De Winter, trained by Wayne Badenhorst and ridden to victory by half a length by Karis Teetan. The…
Summerhill Introduce New Stallion To The Ranks, Golden Sword(GB) Continuing their policy of only standing stallions of quality racing class, South Africa’s Champion Breeders of the past seven consecutive seasons, Summerhill Stud, have acquired the 122 Timeform-rated son of High Chaparral, Golden Sword. While European racing fans will remember him for his consummate victory in…
Stallion Feature: King Of Kings(IRE) King Of Kings(IRE) has been in the news for much of this year for all the right reasons, starting off most of this year as the Leading National Sire of Two Year Olds by Stakes Earned. Surrounded by stallions whose service fees last year range from R60 000 – R150…
Miesque’s Approval Impressive Performance One of five stallions standing at Scott Bros Highdown Stud in Nottingham Road, Miesque’s Approval(USA), is justifying why he was voted KZN Breeders Award-winning Stallion Prospect Of The Year. The big imposing bay son of Miesque’s Son has had six winners in the last two weeks around the country, with four…
Spectrum One Of Great Britain’s Leading Broodmare Sires By Stakes Earned Spectrum, currently standing at Yellow Star Stud, is the second leading Broodmare-sire behind the great Sadler’s Wells when it comes to total prize money earned for the current UK/Irish racing season, reports racingpost.com. It is also interesting to note that his winners-runners percentage is…