Full-Sister For White Colt Gran Blanco A mating that initially produced South Africa’s first white medicine hat Thoroughbred at Rathmor Stud, named Gran Blanco, broodmare Perakeen foaled a lovely bay Kahal filly recently for Mike and Tanya McHardy. A colt who drew world-wide attention – being only one of five or so in the world,…
International Gr 1 Stats Bode Well For KZN’s Young Sires Racingpost.com has revealed interesting statistics regarding the top sires of worldwide Group/Grade 1 races, and it is exciting to have so much of this ‘young blood’ in KZN. The statistics include Group or Grade 1 winners from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain,…
Independant Newspapers And Gold Circle Tour Yellow Star Stud Gold Circle’s Raceday Promotions team invited the Independent Newspapers Marketing and Promotions team to join them for a visit and lunch to Koos and Lorraine De Klerk’s Yellow Star Stud on Wednesday. [ Click here to check out the gallery from the tour ] Fortunately the…
Champion KZN-Breds To Fly The Flag In British Gr 2 With seven Gr 1 wins between them and numerous Group places in the best company both locally and internationally, Dancewiththedevil and The Apache will compete against each other on Saturday at York, in the Gr 2 Sky Bet York Stakes. 16 horses line up on…
Byword(GB) Arrives At Middlefield Stud Gr 1 Prince Of Wales Stakes winner Byword has arrived safely at Middlefield Stud at the beginning of last week, Rob Pickering reports. An athletic and eye-catching chestnut horse with a top pedigree to match, Byword has an outstanding temperament, being an absolute gentleman as we approached him in his…
Another Gr 1 win for Broodmare Sire Extraordinaire Spectrum Sangster in New Zealand produced yet another Gr 1 win for Spectrum, again as a Broodmare Sire, in the Auckland Cup on Wednesday. New Zealand’s leading jockey Opie Bosson isn’t one for overly jubilant celebrations, but he couldn’t contain himself as he crossed the line onboard…
First Foals From Golden Sword Summerhill Stud are welcoming the first big and impressive foals from Golden Sword, so much so it is said that his foals are topping the weights on the scale at the home of the Equus Award Champion Breeders of South Africa. Golden Sword is by one of the world’s most…
Byword’s Dam Booked To Frankel In 2013 Juddmonte’s breeding plans for 2013 are still in the process of being finalised but it is expected that between 20 to 30 of their broodmare band will visit Frankel next season, reports racingpost.com. Those already pencilled in include their 2010 broodmare of the year Binche, dam of Group…
Guest Column: Top Of The Pile 29 November, 2013 – Lisa Barrett The IFHA and Longines list of top racehorses of the 2013 season has just been released, and there are few surprises. The now retired Australian Black Caviar and 2013 Arc winner Treve share the Number One spot as the only females on a…
International News For Young Sires Byword(GB) and Golden Sword(GB) Zatsfine, a half-sister to South Africa’s exciting young sire Byword, won a good race in France on Thursday. The daughter of Oasis Dream won a smart race over 1400m at Dieppe, enhancing her future stud value in the process. She won the Prix Nicholas and has…