Backworth Stud Welcome First Foal For The Season Ian Todd and Keith Russon of Backworth Stud report that they had their first foal born for the season. “At midday on the first warm day following the bitterly cold spell in KwaZulu-Natal, we welcomed the birth of our first foal of the season – a colt…
Graceland Farm Welcome First Visionaire Foal Alec Hogg of Graceland Farm has announced that the first foal by Summerhill’s exciting first season sire in South Africa, Visionaire, was born at Graceland last night in the cold, snowy conditions the Midlands has experienced over the last few days. “Dancing Gift delivered what we think is Visionaire’s…
Hadlow Stud Welcomes First Foal For KZN Cathy Martin of Hadlow Stud has announced that their foaling season began in the early hours of Saturday morning, quite possibly the first Thoroughbred foal to be born in KZN. A filly by Jam Alley(AUS) out of the mare Notaloud by Announce arrived as an early surprise. It…
Gran Blanco of Rathmor Stud Weaned Rathmor’s white colt Gran Blanco has been weaned from his dam Perakeen, at just over 6 months of age. Mike McHardy tells us more: “Gran Blanco was weaned on the 19/03/2012 he has taken it very well and settled immediately, he seems to have become very independent and is…
Fillies From Barton Hall Stud Ken and Lynne Twort of Barton Hall Stud have had some truly spectacular foals last season, and here we have a look at a few of them. They happen to be all fillies which at the time of the photos being taken were soon to be weaned. The first filly…
A.P. Answer’s Foals From Clifton Stud Clifton Stud have some absolutely stunning foals, soon to be weanlings from first season sire A.P. Answer. Kali Mist by Rakeen – Fashing by Dancin Champ(USA) – had a beautiful bay filly out of A.P. Answer. This filly is well-grown and has a lot of presence, with plenty of…
Gran Blanco of Rathmor Stud – Photographic Update Photos taken of Gran Blanco on 3 March 2012. Go to Foals 2011 to keep up with the news of this special foal, or visit www.rathmorstud.co.za
Fort Beluga’s First Crop Of Foals At Spring Valley Spring Valley Stud have welcomed their first crop of foals from their regrettably deceased stallion, Fort Beluga. Sadly, the stallion broke his neck earlier this year and had to be put down, but he has left behind an exceptional crop of foals. He was well-supported and…
Foals From Middlefield Stud For the latest Foal Feature, we visited Rob and Michele Pickering at their Middlefield Stud to have a look at a few of their new foals from the 2011 season, with Rob particularly excited and enthusiastic about the progeny of Carpocrates(USA), one of the best bred stallions to be imported to…
Gran Blanco Update From Rathmor Stud Rathmor Stud’s Gran Blanco is now just under 5 months old, and we have received an update from Mike McHardy, the owner of Rathmor Stud, about the beautiful rare white colt by Kahal. “Gran Blanco is growing really fast and is turning out to be a well above average…