Rathmor Introduce Noble Tune Noble Tune’s arrival was a sight to behold as the young breath-taking stallion prospect walked eagerly next to his handler, a handsome horse with a beautiful head, pricked ears, a perfect length of rein followed by big-striding hind legs that land with perfect precision, he is gifted with an incredibly good…
KZN Saturday Success At Turffontein The big race day at Turffontein on Saturday saw a number of KZN horses finishing high up in the Graded race placings. The Gr3 Protea Stakes 1100m saw Redcarpet Captain take home the victory – the Klawervlei-bred is out of Kabool mare Divine. Kabool stood at Mike and Jacquie Pappas’…
King’s Chapel First South African Winner King’s Chapel has got his stallion career in South Africa off the mark with City Express winning a great race at Fairview by a nose over 1000m on turf in slightly soft going, whilst King’s Chapel also had a second in New Zealand Gr3 White Robe Lodge earlier today…
Eightfold Path Full-Brother Headed For USA Eightfold Path, the son of Giant’s Causeway out of brilliant racemare Divine Proportions, has his first crop of foals arriving this season. Standing at Scott Bros, the lovely bay French Gr3-winning stallion has let down beautifully. Peter Gibson is very pleased to report the arrival of Eightfold Path’s foals…
KZN Breeders Dressage Challenge 2015 After last year’s success of the KZN Breeders Dressage Challenge which was enthusiastically supported by competitive Thoroughbred owners in the discipline of Dressage, KZN Breeders and KZN Dressage have once again joined to highlight the Thoroughbred horse and their successful competitive careers after racing. The KZN Breeders Association, a club…
Three Winners In One Week For Breeder Anton Proctor Anton Proctor had three of his beautifully KZN-bred fillies win within a week, Tapaway and Patchit Up Baby winning at Scottsville on Sunday and Dangerous Diva going on to win at the Vaal on Tuesday. Starting with three year old filly Tapaway [pictured right], trained by…
KZN Breeders Series Log For 3YO’s And Up – 26 March 2015 KZN Breeders Series updated Log for Three year olds and up, as of 26 March 2015. Well done to owner, breeder and trainer St John Gray who heads up the current Log with Form Up, and Al Miqdaam’s talented chestnut son Al Ciberano…
How I Think About Bits And Bitting 04 February, 2015 – Walter Pike I’m giving a series of talks on bits and bitting around the country in the next couple of weeks, so the topic of bits and bitting is on my mind. Think of the bit as a cell phone I guess the first…
The Crusade Syndicate: AGM 22 August
KZN Breeders Series Juvenile Log – 26 March 2015 KZN Breeders Series updated Juvenile Log as of 26 March 2015, for 2YO’s and up. Spring Valley Stud’s Just As I Said by Roski Stud’s young sire Just As Well, leads the Juvenile Log which will see two races run for a stake of R200 000…