First Winner For Breeders Dr Carla and Grant Langley KZN Breeders’ Dr Carla Langley and her husband Grant Langley have bred their first winner, with the beautifully named Autumn Encore winning at Flamingo Park on Monday by an incredible 10.50 lengths over 1400m. Owned and trained by Mr W G C Miller, the colt placed…
Way West Half-Brother By Toreador Wins By 13 Lengths On Debut Toreador has had three winners in less than a week – with a double at the Vaal on Tuesday 5 May, including a two year old son – a half-brother to sire Way West, winning a dazzling debut by almost 13 lengths over 1200m…
Rathmor Stud: Close Hatches Nominated For Eclipse Older Female Award Close Hatches, closely related in pedigree to Rathmor’s new resident sire Noble Tune, has been nominated for the upcoming 44th Eclipse Awards in the category of Older Female taking place 17 January. Her fellow nominees include Group winners’ Dayatthespa and Don’t Tell Sophia. Close Hatches…
Notice Of AGM For The Crusade Syndicate
King’s Chapel: Thurlow Places Second In Queen Adelaide Stakes Listed Bush Hill’s resident sire King’s Chapel had his grand-daughter finish second in the Queen Adelaide Stakes Listed in Australia over 1050m, her first start out since her run in the Gr1 Blue Diamond Stakes at the end of February. The two year old Sebring filly…
Death Of High Chapparal, Sire Of Golden Sword Dual Derby winner High Chaparral, and the sire of Summerhill Stud’s Golden Sword, has died at the age of 15. The six-time Group 1 winning son of Sadler’s Wells was put down at Fethard Equine Hospital during exploratory colic surgery due to a perforated intestine. Winner of…
Guest Column: True Blue: La Troienne 24 August, 2015 – Lisa Barrett Traffic Guard pictured recently at Summerhill Stud’s Stallion Day When it’s time for a mare to go to stud, breeders often overlook the genetic contribution that the mare makes to a pedigree of the offspring. The argument is that over the course of…
Clifton Stud: Five Winners On One Day Between Stud And Stallion Clifton Stud and A.P. Answer achieved five winners on Sunday between them, at Scottsville and at Borrowdale – three for A.P. Answer as a stallion and three for Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud. Scottsville began with Chartwell bred by Miss CJ Rymill, winning…
Black Pepper Named Northern Cape’s Horse Of The Year Racing Association’s Northern Cape Awards saw the super-consistent Tienie Prinsloo trained Black Minnaloushe gelding Black Pepper was crowned Horse Of The Year for the 2014/15 season. The Scott Brothers bred 6yo is out of the Brazillian Ski Champ mare Corre Solta, and ran a cracking fourth…
Noble Tune News: Half Sister Lady Serena Breaks Maiden By Seven Lengths Noble Tune’s three year old Bernardini half-sister, Lady Serena, broke her maiden at Belmont on Sunday in devastating fashion over 1700m, leading the race from the jump to open up off the corner easily on the dirt track, going on to win powerfully…