Guest Column: 30 Years Young 04 March, 2013 – Lisa Barrett Friday marked a rare but important equine milestone, Storm Cat, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest sires of the modern age, turned 30. Well known for his fiery temperament and handling difficulties, Storm Cat has been a feature of the racing and breeding…
KZN Breeders Race Series Log For 2YO’s – 21 May 2014 The two year old Log for the KZN Breeders Series is headed up breeder Mrs Margaret Filmer’s Way West filly, Green Crest with 23 points, 10 points ahead of Raise The Red (bred by Mr Chris Saunders) and Tapaway (bred by Mr Anton Proctor)…
KZN Breeders Race Series Log For Two Year Olds – 22 April 2013 231 Of KZN’s finest two year-olds are competing for space in one race over 1200m for a stake R200 000 on 30 June, our KZN Breeders Race Day incorporating the Million Mile. The races are exclusively for ‘KZN-breds’ (horses registered with the…
KZN Breeders Awards 2011 Share The KZN Breeders Awards take place on Friday evening in Nottingham Road at Bellwood Cottages. South Africa’s champion breeders Summerhill Stud – for the seventh year in a row which is an astounding achievement – have the largest contingent of horses nominated with eight being elected, and second is Graystone…
Gr2 Betting World 1900 KZN-Bred Entries The Gr2 Betting World 1900 runs at Greyville on Friday night and sees KZN horses and Vodacom Durban July entries, Double Clutch, Solar Star and It Is Written making a start. The Paul Lafferty yard are happy with the preparation of their Gr2 Betting World 1900 candidate, “the miracle…
RACE RECORD Sold as foal for 250.000 guineas In England and Ireland, 5 wins, 1200-1600m, from 7 starts. (Timeform 125) at 2 WON Gr1 National S. (1600m) WON Gr3 Railway S. (1200m) WON Tyros S. (1400m) 2nd Gr3 Anglesey S. (1260m) (operated for knee chips at season-end) at 3 WON Gr1 2000 Guineas (1600m) (favourite…
Stallion Feature: Rocky Street(AUS) Rob and Michele Pickering of Middlefield Stud have a young and exciting band of stallions, with the focus of this week’s stallion profile, the Australian import, Rocky Street. Rob explained what a lovely temperament Rocky Street has and we got to experience it first hand. After being assured that it was…
24 February: Auction Of Stallions Mullins Bay, Solskjaer And Way West Following the Summer Ready To Run Sale on Tuesday, 24th February at the School of Equine Management Excellence, the following well-known KZN stallions will be sold to the highest bidder: MULLINS BAY: a son of Machiavellian, sire of millionaire Gitiano; other notable progeny include…
Rambo’s Love Foals Just As Well Filly Rambo’s Love with her new Just As Well filly. Roski Stud’s top mare Rambo’s Love has foaled a beautiful Just As Well filly at Drakenstein Stud. The dam of South African Gr2 placed and Dubai winner Journeyman (by Trippi) hasn’t had the easiest pregnancy, having contracted the potentially…
Who is Ela-Mana-Mou? This eye catching and beautiful top class Irish bred racehorse born in 1976 happens to be the broodmare sire of the established sire Second Empire(IRE) who sadly passed away earlier in the 2011 breeding season after standing at Yellow Star Stud. Second Empire is the sire of Tropical Empire who also stands…