Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day 2013 Bush Hill Stud will be hosting their annual Stallion Day on 28 July in Mooi River – where they will introduce exciting young sire prospect and multiple Group winner Irish Flame and the proven Toreador, who will be covering his first KZN book of mares this season. Others that…
Fort Larned Breeders Cup Success For Local Sire Just As Well(USA) E Dubai, who falls under the second dam of Just As Well has sired another impressive Gr 1 winner with Fort Larned in the recent Breeders Cup Classic for a stake of $5 million. Fort Larned led from gate to wire and held off…
Emperor’s Palace National Yearling Sale – Sporting Post Supplement Sporting Post have launched their Sale Supplement online, and it will be available in print form from tomorrow. There is huge excitement surrounding the upcoming Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale and a number of breeders have already arrived or are in the process of packing and…
Backworth Stud: And So The Breeding Season Begins! Backworth Stud got off to a good start to the season yesterday with 2 mares being covered in KwaZulu-Natal and 3 in the Cape, and more bookings for today. It’s an exciting year for Backworth ahead, and with a confident belief that the Thoroughbred and Racing industry…
KZN-bred Ice Machine Scintillating Gr 2 Green Point Win KZN-bred Silvano gelding Ice Machine’s grabbed a last gasp win in Saturday’s R300 000 Gr 2 Green Point Stakes run at WFA, over the Kenilworth winter mile. Kevin Shea swooped from nowhere with a cool balanced ride, to sour what looked like a dream return to…
Backworth Stud: Raise The Bar Wins Thrilling Woodland Sprint The Paul Matchett-trained 5-year-old mare, Raise The Bar (Goldkeeper – Moving On Up), scored a thrilling victory in the Woodland Sprint on sand at the Vaal Thursday. She got up in the dying strides to win on the line from Summer Speedsters winner, Solarium (Var –…
Group Winner For Bush Hill Sire King’s Chapel(AUS) Thoroughbred News reports that King Montrose (NZ) has claimed his ninth race victory, his first at stakes level, in the $100,000 Group 3 Lindauer Stewards Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton on Wednesday. Trained and part-owned by Neill Ridley, King Montrose (King’s Chapel x Dorrington) ran a tough race…
International Racing News For KZN Sires Plenty of international racing news relating to our local sires has emerged from the last week, involving recent new import Crusade(USA), Visionaire(USA), Just As Well(USA) and the deceased Second Empire(IRE). On 28 February Clearly Now, by Horse Greeley – himself out of Mr Greeley – won the Group 3…
The ‘R Heat Lightning’ Connection At The National Yearling Sales Lot 113, a bay yearling ‘Spangle’ , by Trippi out of Refined Gold by Rich Man’s Gold has attracted the attention of buyers. Keith Russon of Backworth Stud says he has fielded calls from across the country with buyers interested in the eye-catching filly. Her…
Backworth Stud: First Exciting Foals Arriving For The Season Horse Chestnut (SAF) – Flutter Bye (SAF) In a somewhat ironic scheduling of nature, Flutter Bye, a half sister to Grade 2 Ipi Tombe Challenge victress First Again, presented Backworth with our ‘second’ foal of the season. A strapping colt by arguably the best racehorse to…