Just Bluffing Wins 2012 Kenya Derby Just Bluffing, a son of Badger’s Drift, pulverised his opposition in winning the prestigious Grade 1 Derby in Kenya over 2400m today. The highlight and most prominent event at the Ngong racecourse is the annual Kenya Derby which was first held in 1914. Having never raced further than 1800m,…
Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards Tonight The Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards takes place tonight in Durban with a number of KZN-bred and associated horses amongst the nominations. One of the Champion Two Year Old Female nominees is King Of King’s daughter King’s Temptress. The filly made an unforgettable debut in April at Turffontein, winning…
Monterosso Wins Dubai World Cup The Blood-Horse.com reports that Monterosso took command in mid-stretch and powered home to easily win the $10 million Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) at Meydan Racecourse March 31. The 5-year-old horse by Dubawi provided Godolphin trainer Mahmood al Zarooni with a one-two sweep in the race, as…
Bush Hill Stud’s Weekend Racing And Award Success Bush Hill Stud had a good weekend at the KZN Breeders Awards as well as on the racetracks across South Africa and in the North with Zimbabwe’s top three year old Newton Power. Newton Power, by Newton out of Red Spirit by Slew The Red, has now…
Love Struck Wins Guineas Trial Love Struck, owned by Alesh Naidoo and Anthony Govender, won the Guineas Trial Listed on Saturday at Clairwood in soft going, as part of the International Jockeys Challenge. Ridden by Anton Marcus and trained by Paul Lafferty, the son of Kahal defeated Wind Trip (by Trippi) over 1600m followed by…
Backworth Stud: Look Out For This Filly At Next Year’s Sales Earlier this week we shared with you the news of the arrival of Tsunami’s beautful ‘pure’ black filly foal by King’s Chapel. Here is Tsunami’s spectacular grey yearling, a filly by Silvano – probably one of our top yearlings for next year’s Emperors Palace…
Dancewiththedevil Does KZN Proud Once More! KZN-Bred Dancewiththedevil, under Gavin Lerena, won the Grade 1 Horse Chestnut Stakes for the second year in a row at Turffontein today in convincing style again, this time by almost 3.5 lengths (she won last year by 5.5 lengths) from Rudra and Solo Traveller with Kavanagh finishing fourth. Kavanagh…
Backworth Scoops KZN Breeding Achievement Award Backworth Stud are extremely proud and excited to have received the KZN Breeders’ Achievement Award at the 2012 KZN Breeders Awards Dinner. With 3 nominations for the evening, and winning this ultimate in awards, it was a humbling tribute to the commitment of all our team on the farm,…
From The Horses Mouth We penned a piece yesterday on those “magnificent men and their flying machines“, and we were talking about our judges panel for next week’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Gallops (at Summerhill on Friday 19th October 11 am). Summerhill’s inauguration of the Ready To Run was initiated by the belief that…
KZN Stallions Represented In The Kenya Derby Tomorrow The Star newspaper in Kenya reports that tension is mounting as the 2012 Derby day draws, to be run 1 April at Ngong. “The most talented seven horses have been entered for the contest and it is expected the connections alike will play a big role in…