Gr2 Umkhomazi Winner For King Of Kings Two year old King Of Kings colt, King’s Knight, sauntered home deservedly to take the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes by over three lengths from Oriental Tiger and Vous Et Var, after being perfectly positioned midfield under Anthony Delpech. Yet to be out of the money from an incredible nine…
KZN Breeders Award Winners 2014 Click on each image for the enlarged version
West Nile Virus 31 May, 2012 – Dr Jenny Lawrence What Is It? West Nile Virus is a viral disease that causes neurological signs. It is transmitted by mosquitoes and is carried by wild birds, crows are known to die from the disease. Like Horsesickness, it is not a contagious disease. Humans can be infected…
A Dynasty: Irish Flame To Carry The Torch Exciting news broke last night from the CTS Book 1 sale with a South African sales record made by a top-priced Dynasty colt, Shining Knight, reaching a massive R5,2million and a Dynasty filly following for R3.7 million. Dynasty is hot right now…
Introducing Al Miqdaam It is only the middle of March and Mooi River is already a very cool place to be on a very wet and rain-filled day on a trip to meet Al Miqdaam – a strongly built son of Danehill who has had only two runners on the track – and both winners…
Roberto In the inaugural edition of the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup in 1972, Roberto established himself as a truly great horse. Many racing observers believed Rheingold was the better horse and should have won the Epsom Derby. Superstar jockey Lester Piggott too shared this view and after Roberto had run poorly in his previous…
Guest Column: The Sun Keeps Shining On Yearling TV 22 July, 2013 – Lisa Barrett In spite of the economic uncertainty pervading the world right now, yearling sales across the globe are posting record prices for their stock. You might think that buyers would be holding onto their hard earned money, but if there is…
Guest Column: More Than Ready For Caviar? 28 May, 2013 – Lisa Barrett Australian newspapers have confirmed that a shortlist of six possible stallions has been whittled down for supermare Black Caviar. Black Caviar’s Managing owner, Neil Werrett, refused to be drawn on who the other candidates were, but he hinted that they could also…
The Facts Around Broken Legs – Part III Potential Complications with surgical repair of fractures Post-fracture complications impacting a horse’s chance of survival can happen preoperatively during transport of the horse to the hospital, intra-operatively (during surgery) and post-surgery during recovery and healing. Infection is the most important complication of orthopedic surgery in horses. Infection…
Loss Of Two KZN Sires In the last week KZN has sadly lost two stallions – Kabool standing at Mike Pappas’ Highover Stud and Icelander at Koos and Lorraine De Klerk’s Yellow Star Stud. A 19 year old stallion, Kabool hailed from one of the greatest families in the modern day stud book. His dam,…