Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards Tonight The Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards takes place tonight in Durban with a number of KZN-bred and associated horses amongst the nominations. One of the Champion Two Year Old Female nominees is King Of King’s daughter King’s Temptress. The filly made an unforgettable debut in April at Turffontein, winning…
Debut Win A First For 2012 KZN Yearling Sale Graduate 2012 Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale graduate, Ace Antonius, won his debut at Kenilworth yesterday in the first race by an incredible two lengths. Now a two year old colt, Ace Antonius sold for just R40 000 at the Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale seven…
Monterosso Wins Dubai World Cup The Blood-Horse.com reports that Monterosso took command in mid-stretch and powered home to easily win the $10 million Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) at Meydan Racecourse March 31. The 5-year-old horse by Dubawi provided Godolphin trainer Mahmood al Zarooni with a one-two sweep in the race, as…
Rathmor’s Gypsy Queen Produces Kahal Colt KZN Breeders Broodmare Of The Year for 2011, Gypsy Queen, produced an outstanding Kahal(GB) colt on 11 October for Rathmor Stud. Mike McHardy describes the colt as: “a large plain bay, that is very athletic-looking.” A half-brother to three-time Gr 1 winner in the USA and South Africa, Gypsy’s…
Suncoast KZN Yearlings We have a look at some of the yearlings from Bush Hill, Clifton, Hadlow, Middlefield, Rathmor, Roski, Spring Valley and Yellow Star Stud. Lot 47 Mystical Mouse (Miesque’s Approval – Look Sharp by Northern Guest) By MIESQUE’S APPROVAL (USA) (1999 – Stud 2007), Champion Grass Horse in USA 2007, 12 wins and…
Love Struck Wins Guineas Trial Love Struck, owned by Alesh Naidoo and Anthony Govender, won the Guineas Trial Listed on Saturday at Clairwood in soft going, as part of the International Jockeys Challenge. Ridden by Anton Marcus and trained by Paul Lafferty, the son of Kahal defeated Wind Trip (by Trippi) over 1600m followed by…
Backworth Stud: Look Out For This Filly At Next Year’s Sales Earlier this week we shared with you the news of the arrival of Tsunami’s beautful ‘pure’ black filly foal by King’s Chapel. Here is Tsunami’s spectacular grey yearling, a filly by Silvano – probably one of our top yearlings for next year’s Emperors Palace…
Dancewiththedevil Does KZN Proud Once More! KZN-Bred Dancewiththedevil, under Gavin Lerena, won the Grade 1 Horse Chestnut Stakes for the second year in a row at Turffontein today in convincing style again, this time by almost 3.5 lengths (she won last year by 5.5 lengths) from Rudra and Solo Traveller with Kavanagh finishing fourth. Kavanagh…
Backworth Stud: It’s Always A Relief When The Last Foal Of The Season Is Born It is always a relief when the last foal of the season is born, where Miss Unimac delivered a beautiful A.P. Answer colt. Even more exciting for the foals, was our first full sunny day in what seems…
KZN Breeders Golf Day Success The KZN Breeders inaugural Golf Day was held under beautiful warm weather (27 degrees) – so typical of Durban in winter – at the Beachwood Country Club yesterday. The four balls filled quickly after the initial announcement and it was encouraging to see South Africa’s leading owners, trainers and jockeys…