New Stallions In KZN For 2012 Breeding Season An exciting season awaits KZN with ten new stallion acquisitions for the upcoming breeding season. Some farms have each received new stallions for the season – Hadlow have had stallions return to KZN such as Announce and Modus Vivendi, the other is Summerhill Stud with new sires’…
Gold Circle’s Soccer Sunday Sunday at Summerveld Training Centre saw Gold Circle host the second leg of their Gold Circle CSI Soccer Pools initiative – the Groom’s Wafa-wafa Knock-out Cup, which saw Yellow Star Stud from Mooi River join the 12 other teams in the league for the first time – the teams made up…
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,…
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 –…
KZN Breeders Juvenile Million For 2012 KZN Yearling Sale Graduates – Log 1 The first log for the KZN Breeders Juvenile Million race to be held on Vodacom Durban July day has been presented. The race, for a stake of R1-million, is a fantastic incentive to buy a yearling off the 2013 KZN Yearling Sale….
Graceland Farm Welcome First Visionaire Foal Alec Hogg of Graceland Farm has announced that the first foal by Summerhill’s exciting first season sire in South Africa, Visionaire, was born at Graceland last night in the cold, snowy conditions the Midlands has experienced over the last few days. “Dancing Gift delivered what we think is Visionaire’s…
Carpocrates’ Sibling Sold At Fasig-Tipton Select Sale Carpocrates had a three-quarter brother (Lot 96) sell at the Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling Sale yesterday for $650 000 to Whitehorse Stables. The chestnut colt is by Giant’s Causeway (by Storm Cat as is Carpocrates) out of champion racemare Spain, herself by Thunder Gulch. The yearling colt is a…
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…
Vodacom Durban July First Supplementary Entries – 14 May 2013 HORSE A/S WGT M/R TRAINER ABERCROMBIE Mike Bass 94 ALEXANDRA PALACE Mike de Kock 92 AMERICAN STORM Spike Lerena 97 ASTRO NEWS Charles Laird 102 BARACAH Sean Tarry 95 BEACH BEAUTY Dennis Drier 112 *BIG CITY ANGEL Gavin van Zyl 89 BRAVURA Joey Ramsden 10…
Backworth Stud: Newmarket Mist And Drizzle For Baroness Bergsma Of Longford Backworth enjoyed trainer Mike Miller’s support at the 2012 KZN Yearling Sales with his purchase of Colour Of Courage – a lovely Judpot yearling out of our Exclusive Patriot mare, Exclusive Honour. It was lovely to welcome Mike and his team to Backworth…