Guest Column: Great Foundation Mares: Almahmoud 13 February, 2015 – Lisa Barrett The past century has thrown up some great foundation mares who have gone onto play a significant role in breeding and racing affairs around the world. One such mare was Almahmoud, who through her top class daughters has sired some of the century’s…
Dual Gr1 Success For Family Of Noble Tune Noble Tune’s immaculate dam-line headed by his third dam, the great Serena’s Song continues its Gr1 momentum – with two horses on 13 September each placing in top company on either side of the world – Australia and Ireland. The first to show was grey colt Puissance…
From The Horses Mouth We penned a piece yesterday on those “magnificent men and their flying machines“, and we were talking about our judges panel for next week’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Gallops (at Summerhill on Friday 19th October 11 am). Summerhill’s inauguration of the Ready To Run was initiated by the belief that…
International News For Bush Hill Stud Bush Hill’s resident stallions King’s Chapel, Toreador and former resident sire Kahal made news over the weekend, both locally and internationally. King’s Chapel had his first winner City Express and a Gr3 place in New Zealand last week, his luck continuing when his granddaughter by Sebring, Thurlow pictured above,…
Peak Of Perfection: Piemonte Stud Foals pictured in 2014 by Oratorio on the left, and Silvano on the right at Piemonte Stud in Summerveld. Piemonte Stud is based in the heart of racehorse country in KZN, a beautiful area of Summerveld which sees multiple Group champions coming out of its training tracks year after year….
Meteor Shower Joins Yellow Star Stud Yellow Star Stud have acquired Meteor Shower to join their stallion ranks. The son of Danehill is a seven time winner over 1600m – 3200m in both Ireland and South Africa including the Gr3 Chairmans Cup. Out of Teslemi by Ogygian (Damascus), both his full-brothers stand at stud –…
Rathmor Introduce Noble Tune Noble Tune’s arrival was a sight to behold as the young breath-taking stallion prospect walked eagerly next to his handler, a handsome horse with a beautiful head, pricked ears, a perfect length of rein followed by big-striding hind legs that land with perfect precision, he is gifted with an incredibly good…
King’s Chapel First South African Winner King’s Chapel has got his stallion career in South Africa off the mark with City Express winning a great race at Fairview by a nose over 1000m on turf in slightly soft going, whilst King’s Chapel also had a second in New Zealand Gr3 White Robe Lodge earlier today…
KZN Saturday Success At Turffontein The big race day at Turffontein on Saturday saw a number of KZN horses finishing high up in the Graded race placings. The Gr3 Protea Stakes 1100m saw Redcarpet Captain take home the victory – the Klawervlei-bred is out of Kabool mare Divine. Kabool stood at Mike and Jacquie Pappas’…
Those Magnificent Men And Their Flying Machines There are a number of things that make the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale unique, locally and abroad. Firstly, its associated race, the R2.5 million Ready To Run Cup boasts the richest prize money of any race of its kind in the world. When it was initiated…