Spectrum Update: Slade Power Wins Gr1 July Cup At Newmarket Spectrum continues to make news overseas – where his Gr1 winning and now producing grandson, Dutch Art, is now having significant success with Slade Power – winning two Gr1’s on the trot. Slade Power is Europe’s champion sprinter after a dominant performance in the July…
Rathmor’s Gran Blanco To Hit The Track Soon One of the world’s rarest Thoroughbreds, KZN-born Gran Blanco is scheduled to have his first start on the track in Gauteng soon, under the care of trainer Robbie Sage. Bred by Mike and Tanya McHardy of Rathmor Stud, the three year old white medicine hat colt by…
Rizeena Second In Gr1 Falmouth Cup Gr1 winning Rizeena, a close relative to Rathmor’s new resident sire Noble Tune, ran second in the Gr1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket on Friday over eight furlongs. Owned by Shaikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum, Rizeena was bidding to pocket a second Gr1 win following her success in the Coronation…
CTS Cape Premier Sales Results For KZN Sires The CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale saw KZN achieve success with Middlefield Stud’s Fort Wood yearling out of Linsumi sell for R1million. A half-brother to Wishful Eye (now a broodmare at Piemonte Stud in KZN with a stunning Kahal colt at foot), a Var mare also bred…
The King Of KZN Passes On: Kahal(GB) The most successful son of Machiavellian to have stood at stud in South Africa, courtesy of his owners Shadwell Stud, Kahal was euthanized this morning after complications arose from abdominal tumours. The stallion, KZN’s top sire and in South Africa’s top five since 2009, he was the sire…
KZN-bred Futura Wins Gr1 L’Ormarins Queens Plate In Style Brett Crawford’s outstanding KZN-bred Futura set course for a serious assault on the Gr1 J&B Met in three weeks time, as he stormed to victory in the R1 million L’Ormarins Gr1 Queen’s Plate at Kenilworth on Saturday. A 2012 R500 000 National Yearling Sale graduate, Futura…
Guest Column: A Deep Connection 08 January, 2015 – Lisa Barrett The recent retirement of one of Japan’s greatest racemares of the modern age, Gentildonna has once again thrust the Sunday Silence tribe into the spotlight, as talk now turns to who she will be mated to. Gentildonna was primarily a stayer, and one wonders…
Summerhill’s Summer Ready To Run Sale: Save The Date
Rosier Second In Laisserfaire Listed Voted the Cape’s Juvenile Filly Of The Year at the Cape Racing Awards, Rosier finished second to Cold As Ice at Kenilworth on 27 December in the Laisserfaire Stakes Listed over 1100m, with Varikate and Als Bonanaza placing respectively behind the Kildonan filly. Bred and owned by Mary Slack of…
Guest Column: The Year Of The Triple Crown 06 June, 2015 – Lisa Barrett This year sees yet another attempt by a horse to capture America’s elusive Triple Crown. If he wins the Belmont Stakes, American Pharoah will become the first horse since Affirmed [pictured below] in 1978 to win America’s fabled crown. What makes…