First Foals From Golden Sword Summerhill Stud are welcoming the first big and impressive foals from Golden Sword, so much so it is said that his foals are topping the weights on the scale at the home of the Equus Award Champion Breeders of South Africa. Golden Sword is by one of the world’s most…
Guest Column: Top Of The Pile 29 November, 2013 – Lisa Barrett The IFHA and Longines list of top racehorses of the 2013 season has just been released, and there are few surprises. The now retired Australian Black Caviar and 2013 Arc winner Treve share the Number One spot as the only females on a…
Spectrum: A Diamond In The Midlands Spectrum (IRE) has proved himself a significant broodmare sire over the last few years and it is exciting times for Yellow Star Stud, where the big bay son of Rainbow Quest stands in the KZN Midlands. A courageous grey grand-daughter of Spectrum named Moonlight Cloud came very close to…
Backworth Stud: Island Fiesta Fires At Clairwood Wendy Whitehead-trained Island Fiesta (Miesque’s Approval – Bermuda Junction by Is It True) won a great race over 1200m at Clairwood Sunday under a determined ride from champion jockey Anton Marcus. The four time winner, Crissy Sanchez (Toreador – Antonia’s Lass), followed 2 lengths behind in second with…
International News For Young Sires Byword(GB) and Golden Sword(GB) Zatsfine, a half-sister to South Africa’s exciting young sire Byword, won a good race in France on Thursday. The daughter of Oasis Dream won a smart race over 1400m at Dieppe, enhancing her future stud value in the process. She won the Prix Nicholas and has…
Kahal Adds Another Gr 2 This Season Kahal continues his Group race successes this season, with daughter Festival Of Fire taking home the Gr 2 KRA Fillies Guineas at Greyville on Saturday. Festival Of Fire started as the 2-1 favourite, with jocky Bernard Fayd’herbe keeping her in midfield on the rail – she showed a…
Seal Takes Home Aquanaut Listed It was Guineas Day at Turffontein on Saturday and once again our KZN-breds flew the flag with the likes of Seal winning the Aquanaut Listed and a number of Black-Type places. The Gr 3 Acacia Handicap saw Formation (Sarge – Polonaise by Centenary) run second to Amur Affair for breeder,…
Fastnet Rock Colt Tops Karaka Sale Fastnet Rock, sire of the exciting young sire Curved Ball, is enjoying a tremendous season once again. Fresh off winning his first sires premiership, the son of Danehill is again in the headlines with a string of feature race winners, including the G1 winners Nechita and Sea Siren. A…
Foal News From St Helier Stud St Helier Stud’s second foal of the season pictured with her dam Maximum Break and stud manager Annie Woodham. The foal is a lovely bay filly by Ideal World. Maximum Break is a four-time winner by Western Winter and a half-sister to the super star duo of Pocket Power…
7 Of Top 10 Leading National Log By AEPR Are KZN Breeders Sportingpost.co.za’s stats as per 24 November reveal that out of the top 10 Leading Breeders by Average Earnings Per Runner (AEPR), seven of them are proudly registered as KZN Breeders, and the KZN Breeders Premium Scheme – for which breeders are rewarded with…