Our smart Captain Of All (pictured right), one of the top sales prices of his year at R325 000 – Indy Go – won impressively on debut for Candice Dawson and Ralphs Racing. He is the first foal of his Gr2 winning dam, the speedy Go Indigo. Her second foal by Var, a proper looking…
Backworth Stud: Dilemma Time! Hermes, Handbags Or Horses…? “The Midas Touch” Backworth welcomed the visits of dear friend of the farm Anne Veltman, Robin and Joyce Scott, Keith and Pauline Young and the Marnewick family; Michael, Candiese, Julia and Mia. Hermes, Handbags… or Horses?! Anne Veltman was presented with a ‘real dilemma’ as…
It Was No Worries For The Burnards In The KZN Breeders Million Mile It was another outstanding Winter’s day at Clairwood which saw the third running of the KZN Breeders Million Mile, the second time it has been held at Clairwood racecourse. It has been very pleasing to see the attendance of the KZN Breeders…
Kenya Derby Win For Yellow Star’s Westonian Daily Nation reports that the Patsy Sercombe-trained Westonian (bred by Yellow Star Stud), no doubt the country’s top horse and very well ridden by the trainer’s daughter Lesley Sercombe, beat fast-finishing filly Shufti with visiting South African jockey Noel Quale, to clinch the 2013 Salama Fikira Kenya Derby…
Winter School 2015: Wise Men Seek To Understand Those of us who’ve attended the School Of Equine Management Excellence’s annual Winter Workshop will know what it means for the South African racing and breeding industries. There is no other annual forum like it anywhere in the world, and the calibre of speakers has been simply…
CTS Cape Premier Sales Results For KZN Sires The CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale saw KZN achieve success with Middlefield Stud’s Fort Wood yearling out of Linsumi sell for R1million. A half-brother to Wishful Eye (now a broodmare at Piemonte Stud in KZN with a stunning Kahal colt at foot), a Var mare also bred…
