Hadlow Stud, long time supporter of the National 2YO Sale, will be bringing a small but classy draft to this year’s Emperors Palace National 2YO Sale. The Mooi River farm’s consignment is made up of five two-two-year-olds, sired by all of Bezrin, Crusade, Flying The Flag, and Redoute’s Promise. Country Flame (Lot 74) is a…
Extraordinary Trainer, Owner and Breeder St John Gray has breathed new life into sire Bezrin, a well travelled stallion between KZN and the Cape for some years until finally settling into Cathy and Jonathan Martin’s Hadlow Stud. The bright bay son of Danzig has had a slew of winners recently, with his winners to runners…
Hadlow Stud’s Cathy Martin has been voted in as Vice-Chairlady of the KZN Breeders Club. Cathy, who has a strong legal background behind her, farms with her husband Jonathan in Mooi River and stands the breeding operation of St John Gray within her own. St John is enjoying enormous success recently with the likes Christopher…
St John Gray of Graystone Stud, based in KZN, has made a miraculous achievement of 1000 wins this afternoon at the Vaal with his now 11-time winner and #kznbred Dawn Assault. Appropriately, Gavin Lerena, who has ridden several of St John’s top horses to Gr1 success including the likes of 5-time Gr1 winner Dancewiththedevil, was…
Hadlow resident sire The Apache has had two winners in two days, impressive from his first crop with limited numbers.
#kznbred Dawn Assault has snatched the Gr3 London News Stakes from favoured Al Danza and Pietro Mascagni (a R2,3-million yearling). Second to Tilbury Fort in the Gr1 Summer Cup, Dawn Assault is yet another feather in the cap for owner / breeder / trainer St John Gray.
“Similarly, horses with a GBV of 1 have the highest genetic probability of producing elite racehorses and passing on favourable genetic variants to their offspring, when compared with other horses assigned a lower score.”
“With five lengths to make up at the 350m marker, the racy chestnut grew wings under Corne Orffer to put 2,20 lengths between herself and the 10-1 Nafaayes, with the runner-up’s stablemate Ghaalla (a R5-million graduate off the National Yearling Sale) staying on for third.”
Horses like The Apache, with a GRV score of 1, have the greatest genetic potential to become an elite racehorse and are 5.4 times more likely to achieve this than horses assigned a lower GRV score of 4.
Similarly, horses with a GBV of 1 have the highest genetic probability of producing elite racehorses and passing on favourable genetic variants to their offspring, when compared with other horses assigned a lower score.”
With his results to date of 36% winners to runners, coupled with his own outstanding performance on the track, his genetic tests are proving to be very accurate.
The son of Mogok has a phenomenal race record and earned R17-million in stakes, in a career that saw him race on three continents and win at the highest levels, including the Gr2 Rashidiyah (Dubai), first across the line in the Gr1 Arlington Million (USA) and a winner of the Gr1 Daily News 2000 and Gr1 Champions Cup in South Africa and placed in many more.