Rathmor Stud National Yearling Sale Draft 2014 Lot 22 The Duck A.P. Answer – Run Angel Run by Makaarem Lot 109 Timeous Var – Time And Tide by Baroon Lot 333 Romany Prince Kahal – Gypsy Queen by Royal Chalice Lot 356 Rush In Windrush – In A While by Rakeen Lot 513 Caprivi Mogok…
KZN Breeders Awards 2011: Outstanding 2 Year-Old Fillies And Colts Nominations Share Congratulations to the breeders who have had horses nominated in the Outstanding 2 Year-old categories. The fillies are Extra Zero, Indigo Princess, Lavish Gal and Variometer with the colts following below … Extra Zero A 2 year old filly by Way West out…
National Yearling Sale – Two Day Results The National Yearling Sale continued its momentum yesterday with the South African record set for a filly [pictured bottom right] sold at R4,750 000 to Mike Rattray, purchased from Lammarskraal Stud – the farm he had sold a few months back. The filly by Fort Wood is out…
Farm Feature: Rathmor Stud Rathmor Stud was purchased in June 1998 from Dr Allan King, and it was known previously as Kingswood Stud. The farm is situated near Nottingham Road and it is a family owned business, managed by Michael and Tanya McHardy, and assisted by Michael’s parents, Bernard and Wendy McHardy. The farm is…
Guest Column: Hooves And Glamour: J&B Met 1 February, 2013 – Lisa Barrett Saturday 2 February sees the running of one of the country’s most high profile and glamorous racing events, the J&B Met. First thought to be run by British soldiers garrisoned in the Cape in the late 1800’s who wanted to race their…
Stallion Feature: Badger’s Drift As of 15 July Badger’s Drift topped the Stallions list for 3 year olds in South Africa, with an impressive strike rate of 73% for runners to winners. Badger’s Drift was Champion Freshman sire in 2007, and his progeny are continuing to be successful at the track. Act of Supremacy and…
NZ Gr3 Win For Broodmare Sire St Petersburg At Trentham in New Zealand, star three year old filly Platinum Witness (California Dane-Chartreuse, by St. Petersburg) scored by two lengths for trainer Lisa Latta in the NZ$70,000 Gr3 Desert Gold Stakes over 1600m for three year old fillies. She went on to win well over fellow…
Impressive Noble Tune First Foals As Unbridled’s Song Gets Two Gr1’s As Noble Tune’s first impressive foals arrive this season, his grey sire Unbridled’s Song collected another two Gr1’s in a week after Unbridled Forever won her second start of the season in the Gr1 $500,000 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga, and Liam’s Map winning the…
The Fort Stud: 10 Winners Bred And Pretrained This Year Jill Fox of The Fort Stud is thrilled to report 10 winners this year along with a number of places, from horses that have come from her lovely farm in Fort Nottingham – either bred, raised, and/or backed and pretrained at The Fort Stud. The…
Broodmare Feature: Gypsy Queen KZN Breeders Award Winner – Broodmare Of The Year 2011 With Gypsy’s Warning challenging her title for the Matriarch Stakes Grade 1 on 25 November and recently being in the media for selling at the Keeneland November Sale for a price of $1.05 million, we have a look at her dam…