Tremendous Treble For Backworth Stud! Backworth Stud has enjoyed a cracking start to the 2013-2014 season, enjoying a fine treble over the weekend. The first leg of the Backworth hatrick kicked off when Spectacularus broke her maiden in fine fashion on Friday. A daughter of former Eclipse Champion Miesque’s Approval out of mare Collection Prive,…
Press Release: Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale Gallops Each horse is eligible for the world’s richest Ready To Run Sales race, the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup, with a 2013 stake of R3million, making it the second biggest race in the country. Limited to the sales candidates, these are irresistible odds. Summerhill will…
Dancewiththedevil Retired The curtain has come down on the racing career of champion mare Dancewiththedevil, reports tabnews.co.za. Owner-breeder St John Gray, who trained the daughter of Modus Vivendi to nine wins in a star-studded South African campaign, has confirmed the mare’s retirement in England: “The rains we’ve been waiting for have sadly come too late…
Backworth Stud: Quality Foals Arriving Kahal (GB) – War Echo (SAF) “Cetshwayo led a powerful army of young Zulu fighters called “uSuthu” named for their bloodcurdling war cry, “uSuthu” which, when incited during battle, implored the ancestors to beseach upon them the strength and bravery of fallen Zulu warriors.” …and as the winter chill wanes…
Eighfold Path First Mares Confirmed In Foal Scott Bros most recent addition to their sire ranks, Eightfold Path(USA) by Giants Causeway out of the brilliant racemare Divine Proportions, has got his first mares confirmed in foal, reports Highdown Stud. Eightfold Path showed early brilliance for leading French trainer Pascal Bary – winning on debut and…
Byword(GB) First Mares Confirmed In Foal Rob Pickering of Middlefield Stud has reported that champion racehorse Byword(GB) has his first mares confirmed in foal. Byword was an outstanding racehorse, who defeated no fewer than 22 Grade 1 winners during his career including the likes of Cirrus des Aigles, currently the top rated horse in Europe,…
Emerald Cup Day Racing News KZN had another good weekend in the Vaal, with breeder Peter Choices’s Windrush gelding In A Rush taking home the Gr 2 Emerald Cup in style. Cante Libre, a Kahal mare bred by Gary Player, walked away with the Banyana Listed Handicap whilst St John Gray’s filly Formation was victorious…
Yellow Star Stud and Balmoral Stud: Ready To Run Gallops Invitation
Tribute To Hector Lawrence – KZN’s Oldest Breeder Turning 100 Hector Lawrence is a life member of Gold Circle, and during the 1960’s was an owner, trainer and breeder. Hector owned Devon Stud in Mooi River later selling it on to be renamed Regent Stud. He then built on the adjourning farm selling to Kevin…
Passing Of Wally Brits It was with great sadness and shock that we heard of Wally Brits’ untimely passing. Wally was an enormous character with a larger than life take on things. Wally had a loud and jovial personality and a passion for his friends and racing, both horses and pigeons that was to be…