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…
Guest Column: Cream Of Caviar 23 March, 2013 – Lisa Barrett Australia’s “Wonder from Down Under” Black Caviar made it 24 wins in row a when she cruised to scintillating victory in the William Reid Stakes (Gr.1)in front of a capacity crowd yesterday. The 6 year old mare didn’t disappoint her 25 000 odd fans…
Cassie O’ Malley Wins For Roski Cassie O’ Malley’s debut win at Greyville in July 2014, lead in by breeders and owners Greg and Chelle Royden-Turner. KZN-bred Jet Master filly Cassie O’ Malley found the winners enclosure once more, after winning her debut in impressive fashion over 1600m in July on the Polytrack. The Roski-bred…
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…
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KZN Breeders Awards A Great Success The KZN Breeders Association hosted their annual Awards evening at Bellwood Cottages on 25 November. Recently-elected Chairman Koos de Klerk addressed the visitors at the well attended and very successful event saying, “This is a hard act to follow after the work by Warwick Render. I’d like to wish…
Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale: First Day Results The Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale saw the first 150 Lots knocked down out of 262 offered over two days. The average remains above the previous years, with the top priced horse of the sale to date being a Trippi filly for R600 000, Lot 72 beautifully named Announcing…
Storm Cat Foaled in 1983, Storm cat took the world by storm and his influence as a Sire-Of-Sires and Broodmare Sire are being felt all over the world. By Storm Bird out of an amazing mare Terlingua, she was by Secretariat – who is proving himself to be an extraordinary Broodmare Sire. Storm Cat is…
Passing Of A Legend: Aptitude And The Coastal Connection 14 May, 2012 – Lisa Barrett BloodHorse recently reported that Aptitude, at one-time a leading North America runner and son of A.P.Indy died at the end of April in Argentina. Aptitude was a multiple Group One and Group winner for Prince Kallid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms in…
The ‘King’ Is Dead After the recent loss of Muhtafal, KZN lost another stalwart stallion in King Of Kings this week at The Fort Stud, due to cardiac arrest at age 20. King Of Kings stood most of his South African career at Alan and Vera Sutherland’s Somerset Stud, before being relocated to Clifton and…