Emperors Palace Ready-To-Run Gallops At Summerhill Stud The Emperors Palace Ready-To-Run Sale Gallops took place on a magnificent blue skies at Summerhill Stud. In typical Summerhill fashion, it was a superbly organised day together with Bloodstock South Africa, with the who’s who of racing present from breeders to trainers and owners, including many VIP’s such…
Backworth’s Glitter Star Continues To Shine For Lucky Houdalakis Backworth-bred Glitter Star (Muhtafal – Celestial Charm by Freedom Land) notched up his second win Thursday at the Vaal under jockey Marthinus Mienie for trainer Lucky Houdalakis. The 3-year-old gelding won handsomely by 2 lengths carrying top weight and takes his career record to 2 wins…
Dancewiththedevil To Attempt Repeat Grade 1 Success Tonight If there is any horse in the country that can repeat another Grade 1 winning performance, it is the KZN-Bred Dancewiththedevil once again under Gavin Lerena tonight in the L Jaffee Empress Club Stakes Grade 1. She won the race in 2010 by four lengths from Welwitchsia,…
Pulpit Dies At Claiborne Farm The bloodhorse.com has reported that perennial leading sire Pulpit, a three-quarter brother to Summerhill’s very own Gr 1 winning sire A.P. Arrow (out of Garimpeiro by Mr Prospector), died in his paddock at Claiborne Farm on 6 December, according to an announcement made by farm manager Bradley Purcell. The 18-year-old…
Nomination Forms For KZN Breeders Race Day 2013 Nomination forms will be sent by the National Racing Bureau to the trainers and entries and fees will be submitted to the National Racing Bureau. [Download a copy of the form here – (PDF) ] The nomination forms will be sent to the trainers on Monday 3rd…
Will Frankel Make It 14 Out Of 14 On Saturday? At £100 million, Frankel is most valuable stallion prospect ever reports The Telegraph. Khalid Abdulla knows full well that he has an extremely valuable property on his hands – industry experts value Frankel at £100 million for stud purposes – but he is eager that…
Alec Hogg: Horse Breeding … Interrupted The day I never expected has finally arrived. Today we started the paying forward of our breeding dream. I pleaded with the TBA and managed to squeak late inclusions into the July 12th KZN Broodmare and Weanling Sale. There’s a sense of finality when you send in a payment…
Frankel Connections Not Swayed By £1m Offer To Take On Black Caviar The Guardian reports that a £1m offer has been made to connections of Frankel (Galileo – Kind by Danehill) and Black Caviar (Bel Esprit – Helsinge by Desert Sun) in the hope that it will bring the two horses together in the Sussex…
Badger Lake Wins Durbanville Cup Listed Badger Lake, by Wood-Moore Manor Stud’s resident sire Badger’s Drift, won the Durbanville Cup Listed Handicap over 3200m at Kenilworth, beating a strong field of horses that included Gr 1 Ladbrokes Gold Cup winner In Writing(ARG). Badger Lake, out of the mare Swan Star by Mistral Dancer(CAN), won the…
Media Release: Greyville Night Racemeetings Postponed Inclement weather over the past month has forced Gold Circle to abandon the Greyville night racemeetings scheduled for October 30 and November 6. As a consequence racing action will only return to the City track on Sunday, November 18, when the second leg of the 2012 Avis Coach Charter…