Aidan O’Brien’s bid for a third consecutive Investec Oaks will be led by Rhododendron as she featured among ten declarations for Friday’s Classic at Epsom. Cartier Juvenile Filly of the year and Gr1 winner Rhododendron is a full sister to Flying The Flag at Bush Hill Stud. His first foals are due this year.
Jockey Morne Winnaar will take a slender one point lead over Billy Jacobson into the final of “Levelling The Playing Fields Series” on Sunday, 25 June 2017. After winning rounds 1 and 2, Jacobson did not fare too well in the draw for Round 3 and his charge Roy’s Power could only finish 5th. Winnaar’s fourth placing on Royal Agree on Sunday was enough to reverse a one-point deficit into a one-point lead in their chase for the R50 000 bonus for the leading jockey of the Series.
Three of our KZN resident sires flew the flag high for our small province with three winners from the four Gr1 races on the day – two of them from from sires Brave Tin Soldier and Toreador, and the other from broodmare sire Spectrum with Sand And Sea, and Just As Well’s handsome son Zodiac Jack placed in the Gr3 Cape Of Good Hope Nursery Stakes, just a length off the winner for breeder Roski Stud.
Bush Hill Stud’s promising young sire and former Horse Of The Year Irish Flame got off the mark as a sire when his son Gizmo thrashed his rivals to break his maiden by three and a quarter lengths on Monday.
It gives Bush Hill Stud great pleasure to announce that we will be standing a new sprinting sire for the 2017 season in MUSTAJEEB, the fastest colt to come out of the famous sire producing Allegretta family of champion sires Galileo, Sea The Stars and King’s Best. In fact every group winning colt to go to stud from the family has become a Gr 1 sire, including MUSTAJEEB’s close relative Tamayuz.
“A passionate racehorse owner and breeder, based at his Kwazulu-Natal Piemonte Stud, Lee brings with him a wealth of knowledge, business acumen and solid leadership.”
The KZN-bred fillies racing on Saturday’s big Gr1 sprint day at Scottsville include several entries into the Gr1 Allan Robertson, whilst Paul and Beth Gadsby-trained Vision To Kill will contest the Gr1 South African Fillies Sprint.
Invitation to the Noble Tune Stallion Day. A bus service will be on offer, along with lunch and live music.
The often shoeless champion Talktothestars (pictured winning last year’s Gr1 Tsogo Sun Sprint) will have a fine chance of defending his crown in the Gr 1 Tsogo Sun Sprint over 1200m at Scottsville on Saturday. The current KZN-bred Equus Champion Sprinter’s last run in the Gr 1 Computaform Sprint over 1000m where he flew home for…
KZN BREEDERS SERIES POINTS AS AT 22 MAY 2017 – 3YO AND UP LOG No. Horse Age Sex Trainer Breeder Points 1 BANKING APRIL 4 F Lucky Houdalakis Summerhill Stud (Pty) Ltd 37 2 THE POET 5 G Mark Dixon Bush Hill Stud 36 3 ROY’S TAXI 5 G Kumaran Naidoo Mr Bruce Le…