The Michael Holmes Bloodstock Shongweni Horses In Training sale takes place on Wednesday 24 February, 2016 at Durban Shongweni Club. The catalogue in pdf format has been made available online for viewing.
“Crowned Champion Freshman Sire for the South African racing season of 2014/2015, it was thanks to Team Valor’s Barry Irwin and his vision of what he wished to achieve from the breeding of his mares based in KZN that we have Visionaire standing in the province of KwaZulu Natal.” – International Racehorse Magazine.
Visionaire achieved a 1-2 in the 11th race on J&B Met day, when the Joey Ramsden-trained Mr Wise Guy galloped to a near two length victory from Vilakazi, a son of Visionaire and half-brother to Hong Kong winner, Mighty Emperor.
The winning combination of the Louis Goosen Racing Stable and Piere Strydom results in the 150th win for the combination, aboard a Visionaire half-brother to Gr1 winner Love Struck.
KZN-bred Alareef, impeccably bred by Shadwell Stud, opened his winning account at Meydan for trainer Mike De Kock and his owner Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum. Alareef’s dam Modraj(GB) by Machiavellian stands at Spring Valley Stud on behalf of her owner Shadwell Stud, and saw her Just As Well colt sold to Team G Racing from the 2015 National Yearling Sale.
“In today’s Thoroughbred Daily News (TDN) Bill Oppenheim discusses his Apex review on leading AB and C European and North American runners. It’s a bit of a complicated method of working out just how successful stallion’s runners are, but it certainly is worth the effort.” – Guest columnist Lisa Barrett.
Kom Naidoo’s Answeringgenesis tops the first log of 198 Two Year Olds competing for spaces in two races each for a stake of R200 000 over 1200m; one for KZN-bred colts and the other for KZN-bred fillies on the Polytrack at Greyville. The two year old Clifton Stud-bred colt by A.P. Answer out of Sauna’s…
Lucky Houdalakis trained Fortitude, an ultra consistent six year old mare leads the first published KZN Breeders Series Log for 3YO’s and up. The daughter of Stronghold out of Ahonoora mare Mininski(GB) recently had her fourth win from the talented Cassie O’ Malley. The Summerhill-bred has placed second in both the Gr3 Acacia and Jacaranda Handicap for owners Stone Hill Stud.
We invited Gold Circle’s Racing Analyst and TV presenter Warren Lenferna to visit Scott Bros’ Highdown Stud on Friday to view the stallions, and a few of the 2015 foals including a spectacular half-brother to Wild One and a yearling full-brother to Gr1 winner Orbison.
Breed-shaping sire Kingmambo has been euthanized at 26 due to the infirmities of old age, Lane’s End Farm have announced. Kingmambo is the broodmare sire of Scott Bros’ son of Giant’s Causeway, Eightfold Path.