Stallion Feature: Kildonan Equus Champion Sprinter Kildonan joined Yellow Star Stud from the Cape earlier this year, the athletic dark bay stallion has been enthusiastically welcomed by breeders around KZN. Meeting Kildonan (named for a Scottish gold mine) to take some photos of him, he was a complete gentleman and watching him run loose in…
Stallion Feature: Strategic News(AUS) Strategic News(AUS) will be standing his third season at Rathmor Stud this year. The imposing chestnut stallion is the only son of Strategic and grandson of Grand Lodge standing at stud in South Africa, having his first crop of weanlings on the ground. Strategic News won a total of five times…
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…
Stallion Feature: Rocky Street(AUS) Rob and Michele Pickering of Middlefield Stud have a young and exciting band of stallions, with the focus of this week’s stallion profile, the Australian import, Rocky Street. Rob explained what a lovely temperament Rocky Street has and we got to experience it first hand. After being assured that it was…
DIED FEBRUARY 2017 Stallion Feature: A.P. Answer(USA) Exciting new stallion A.P. Answer(USA) standing at Clifton Stud has just produced his first crop of foals, but his arrival at the farm was an interesting story – that the delete button on Peter Blyth’s keyboard almost prevented this eye-catching bay stallion by A.P. Indy from even…
Visit to Greenhill Farm A visit to Greenhill Farm in Lidgetton, owned by Stuart and Lola Crawford and assisted by their daughters Taryn and Haley, reveals a beautiful farm where the horses needs always come first. Not only do Stuart and Lola breed and raise Gr 1 winning horses, they also grow South Africa’s national…
Gr3 Place For Admiral’s Eye: Four Black Types For Dam Surfers Eye The best performed daughter of Admire Main to date, Admiral’s Eye, added yet more Bold Black Type to her pedigree by placing third in the Gr3 Flamboyant Stakes at Greyville behind Same Jurisdiction – the latter a Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale graduate. Admiral’s…
Stallion Feature: Jam Alley(AUS) Arriving at Hadlow Stud to meet Jam Alley, it was the first day where the rain had come at last in Mooi River, and fortunately it held out long enough for our meeting and some photos with the big chestnut stallion. He had been standing inside his stable getting groomed and…
Roski Stud: It’s Just As Well That Ticks All The Boxes Roski Stud have welcomed their first foals for 2012 with three on the ground so far. The first crop of Just As Well’s progeny are arriving and Greg Royden-Turner, co-owner (with Anton Proctor) of this well-bred young son of A.P. Indy, has a great…
Broodmare Feature: Vogue Vogue is an attractive chestnut mare standing at Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud, and they would never have owned her were it not for a package deal arrangement. By Model Man out of Thousand Nights by Foveros, she descends from a phenomenal dam-line and she is passing this on to her…