Opening Of The Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale Day 1 The Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale kicks off this morning at 10:00, with one of the best sons of KZN-bred Jet Master making a guest appearance at the opening scheduled for 9:30 this morning. JJ The Jet Plane has retired after an illustrious career and…
Backworth Stud: 2013 National Yearling Sale Inspection Backworth Stud enjoyed John Kramer and Kerry Jack’s visit to inspect our yearlings nominated for the 2013 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, and are pleased to share that despite bad weather, our ‘nominated yearlings’ were well received. The horses did themselves proud averaging a score of 8.5 with…
Local And International Gr 3 Success For King Of Kings KZN once again had significant success at Turffontein on Saturday, with a number of horses winning and placing in several Black Type races and news from Gulfstream Park in the USA – predominantly from King Of Kings and Spectrum. King’s Temptress, by King Of Kings,…
First Winner For Sire Mullins Bay Croke Park, bred by Somerset Stud, produced the first win for Mullins Bay(GB), standing at Summerhill Stud. This is Mullins Bay’s first crop to race. Croke Park sold for just R20 000 at the 2011 KZN Yearling Sale, and has earned almost R50 000 in his first start/win. It…
Vodacom Durban July Entries – 18 April 2013 It is reaching that exciting time of year again, and the Vodacom Durban July entries have been released. A number of talented KZN-breds – or horses associated through KZN being by our sires – are represented, including Kahal’s recent Gr 1 winner Love Struck, bred by Summerhill…
Class Of 2011 At The National Sales – Then And Now! First season sires A.P. Answer, Brave Tin Soldier and Fort Beluga are having their first progeny going to the Emperors Palace National Yearling Sales – where they will fall under the hammer next weekend in Johannesburg. We have a look at a few of…
First Winner For KZN Sire Lion Tamer Lion Tamer, standing at Avalon Stud in the KZN Midlands, had his first winner in the second race for Maiden two year-old fillies at Scottsville over 1200 metres with Lady De Winter, trained by Wayne Badenhorst and ridden to victory by half a length by Karis Teetan. The…
Kenyan Guineas Win For Sire Bezrin(USA) Westonian, bred by Yellow Star Stud, won the Kenyan Guineas last weekend at Ngong by 4.5 lengths from the second horse Wonnitestand, Shufti and Somerset. The bay son of Bezrin, who stands at Rathmor Stud, closely resembles his sire and was the hot favourite for the race, running just…
The Apache Does KZN Proud In Dubai The Apache, bred by Scott Bros and a South African champion from trainer Mike de Kock’s Dubai raiding party, got an ideal stalking trip under Christophe Soumillon to win the $200,000 Al Rashidiya sponsored by Dubal Gr 2 on 31 January at Meydan. Making his first start in…
Summerhill Introduce New Stallion To The Ranks, Golden Sword(GB) Continuing their policy of only standing stallions of quality racing class, South Africa’s Champion Breeders of the past seven consecutive seasons, Summerhill Stud, have acquired the 122 Timeform-rated son of High Chaparral, Golden Sword. While European racing fans will remember him for his consummate victory in…