First South African Winner For Daring Bid(USA) The only son of Unbridled standing at stud in South Africa, Daring Bid(USA) got his first winner at the Vaal on Saturday with All The Bids, bred by Favour Stud, winning by almost four lengths over 1000m from Law Enforcer and Thunder Run. Trained by Corne Spies and…
Five Winners In Two Days For Miesque’s Approval Miesque’s Approval continues to make himself heard – having achieved an incredible five winners in two days at Clairwood, Turffontein and Borrowdale Park in Zimbabwe. The handsome son of Miesque’s Son standing at Scott Bros is currently sitting ninth on the National Sires Log (according to stats…
Clifton-bred Bezanova Grabs Gr2 Charity Mile Bezanova, bred by Peter and Jenny Blyth of Clifton Stud, grabbed the Gr2 Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile on Saturday from a classy field of horses, with another talented KZN-bred, the recent Gr2 Joburg Spring Challenge winner No Worries finishing second. Triple Crown winner Louis The King finished in…
Breeding Season 2014: Ato Arrives At Summerhill Stud The arrival of a new stallion at Summerhill always stirs the juices. We like to think that to get through the eye of the stallion barn’s needle, takes a racehorse of extraordinary quality and exacting standards. Form, physique and family are the fundamentals, and they need to…
KZN Breeders Race Series Log For 3YO’s And Up – 27 January 2014 The first log is out for the Three year old and up KZN-bred colts and fillies in line to run on 28 June 2014 in six races (seven with two year olds) for R200 000 each – over distances of 1200m, 1600m…
Exciting News Surrounding Sire Eightfold Path Peter Gibson has reported on some exciting news regarding Eightfold Path and in particular his Champion dam, Divine Proportions: “I think we can look back with some satisfaction that the stallion, having covered over 65 mares, has shown excellent fertility and enthusiasm for his job at stud. “My thanks…
Backworth Stud: Feelin’ that Bermuda Breeze Backworth-bred Bermuda Breeze (by Atso out of our Australian mare, Bermuda Junction) ‘breezed’ to a comfortable win over 1200m Tuesday at Clairwood for trainer Frank Robinson with jockey Billy Jacobson up. Bermuda Breeze is from the family of Scorndale (AUS) (17 wins in Australia) and Scornbold (AUS) (23 wins…
Lord Rose First Winner On Polytrack Trial Run Gold Circle Racing issued a press release dated Wednesday, 4 June 2014 reporting back on their four Polytrack trial races held on Tuesday, 3 June. Although Greyville’s synthetic track is configured to accommodate a maximum 12 runners, following the four trial races, in consultation with the jockeys,…
Love Struck Wins Duke Of York Cup In Mauritius A hat-trick of wins for Sherman Brown and the yard of Paul Foo Kune Stable, as this partnership scored in the feature race of the day and last classic of the season – The AfrAsia Duke Of York Cup – won brilliantly by Love Struck. Breaking…
Exciting Future For Visionaire Visionaire’s statistics: 11 runners – six winners with 11 wins between them – one of those already a Listed winner – and not a single runner yet unplaced. If that doesn’t make anyone in the horseracing industry sit up and take notice – nothing will – his first yearlings to hit…