African Drum Beat Leading KZN Breeders Dressage Challenge The KZN Breeders Dressage Challenge, being run in conjunction with KZN Dressage is currently being lead by African Drum Beat, ridden by Jennifer Smith for owner Vanessa Gilks, in the lead by seven points. Alvin’s Ailey and Bella’s Magic follow respectively. The son of Damascus Gate competed…
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…
King’s Chapel: Thurlow Running In Gr1 Blue Diamond King’s Chapel is the broodmare sire of Sebring filly Thurlow, who lines up in the Gr1 Blue Diamond Stakes on Saturday in Australia. She is out of one of King’s Chapel’s best progeny produced to date, Princess Emmy. Gr1 Blue Diamond Stakes contender Thurlow will figure in…
Machiavellian Machiavellian was foaled in 1987, and his influence on the Thoroughbred is being felt the world over. By Mr Prospector out of Coup de Folie by Halo, he is also a half-brother through his dam to our very own Mogok, standing at Scott Bros. Mogok has already sired the likes of Rathmor-bred Gypsy’s Warning,…
Apple Cider Vinegar – Natural Horse Care Product 15 May, 2012 – Dr Rensia Möller Some of the ways that Apple Cider Vinegar help horses: 1) Water and Feed Nutritional Supplement ACV is an excellent source of easily absorbable potassium and other trace minerals. ACV is invaluable for mares coming up to foaling and it…
KZN-Bred Futura Seventh In Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings Futura is lying seventh on the coveted Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings as of 8 March 2015. The four year old triple Gr1-winning Futura out of a Badger’s Drift mare, Scribblin The Cat, enjoyed a well-deserved rest after his easy victory in the J&B Met, which…
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…
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…
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…