Fort Beluga’s First Crop Of Foals At Spring Valley Spring Valley Stud have welcomed their first crop of foals from their regrettably deceased stallion, Fort Beluga. Sadly, the stallion broke his neck earlier this year and had to be put down, but he has left behind an exceptional crop of foals. He was well-supported and…
Indian Charlie, Sire Of Uncle Mo, Loses Cancer Battle Blood-horse.com reports that Airdrie Stud confirmed that their top stallion Indian Charlie was euthanized at about 9:30 a.m. EST 15 December. The 16-year-old son of In Excess had been battling cancer. “Losing Indian Charlie after a challenging battle with Hemangiosarcoma and its complications has been a…
Foals From Middlefield Stud For the latest Foal Feature, we visited Rob and Michele Pickering at their Middlefield Stud to have a look at a few of their new foals from the 2011 season, with Rob particularly excited and enthusiastic about the progeny of Carpocrates(USA), one of the best bred stallions to be imported to…
“Pocket” by Gary Lemke I recall going to the 2010 Vodacom Durban July, hoping that Pocket Power would win, this after witnessing his dead-heat with Dancer’s Daughter in 2008. I will never forget watching him come around the corner into the straight at Greyville after he was caught wide, the race had not gone well…
Gran Blanco Update From Rathmor Stud Rathmor Stud’s Gran Blanco is now just under 5 months old, and we have received an update from Mike McHardy, the owner of Rathmor Stud, about the beautiful rare white colt by Kahal. “Gran Blanco is growing really fast and is turning out to be a well above average…
Rapid Redux Equals Citation’s Record Blood-horse.com has reported that Rapid Redux tied the modern-day United States record for wins in a single season as of 13 December, as he went wire-to-wire in a $5,000 starter allowance race at Laurel Park. The 5-year-old son of Pleasantly Perfect won his 19th race in 2011, tying the legendary…
Foals From Hadlow Stud In this foal feature, we focus on Hadlow Stud which is owned by Cathy and Jonathan Martin and integrates St John Gray’s Graystone Stud into their establishment, standing the likes of Emperor’s Dance – the dam of Grade 1 Sansui Summer Cup winner and 2011 KZN Breeders Award winning Horse-Of-The-Year Dancewiththedevil…
First Supplementary Entries For J & B Met 2012 To view the first entries click here. DR HORSE A/S WGT M/R TRAINER 0 GOLDEN SWORD (GB) (6H) 0.0 117 Mike de Kock 0 IGUGU (AUS) (4F) 0.0 117 Mike de Kock 0 DANCEWITHTHEDEVIL (5M) 0.0 116 St John Gray 0 PIERRE JOURDAN (5G) 0.0 116…
Rocky Street(AUS) First Foals 2011 at Middlefield Stud Rocky Street(AUS) – Special Deal Offered! ROCK OF GIBRALTAR – LEZAYRE by KELTRICE BAY His sire Rock Of Gibraltar was a World Champion having won 7 consecutive Group 1 Races Out of 10 time winning and Graded placed dam from Australian speed female line Rocky Street’s former…
Hong Kong Racing Over The Weekend South African jockey Jeff Lloyd won the US$2.6 million Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile (1600m) Group 1 at Sha Tin on Sunday aboard 9-year old Able One(NZ) (by Cape Cross out of Gardenia by Danehill), winning by a neck from Cityscape. This is an incredible feat considering the horse…