Spectrum Grandson Tops Karaka Select Sale This time as a paternal grandsire, Spectrum had a bay colt sell at the Karaka Select Yearling Sale for a sale-topping $525 000. The colt sold as Lot 610, a son of Tartan Bearer(IRE). Tartan Bearer [pictured right], an eye-catching chestnut by Spectrum out of Highland Gift by Generous…
First Foal For The Assayer At Yellow Star Stud Yellow Star Stud have welcomed the first foal for The Assayer last night, a lovely big colt with plenty of quality and substance about him. The colt is out of Flying Minstral, a daughter of Lord Balmerino in turn out of Gone West mare Happy Mondays…
National Yearling Sale – Final Day Results The National Yearling Sale wrapped up with a number of high-figured horses sold on the third and last day. The top-priced KZN-bred colt was a stunning grey consigned by Summerhill Stud as Lot 418, named Tumbling out of Northern Guest mare Summersault. He is a half-brother of Gr2…
Summer Ready To Run Sale: Results With visitors from as far afield as Mauritius, Mogadishu, France and Cyprus, the 2015 Emperors Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale held at the School Of Equine Management Excellence at the magnificent Summerhill Stud, produced a satisfactory outcome in the current economic climate with the quality catalogue underpinning some…
Why breed in Kwa-Zulu Natal? Ask any stockmen worth his salt and he’ll tell you that the valleys of KwaZulu-Natal carry some of the most generous and productive soils on the planet. Coupled with one of the most reliable rainfalls anywhere, a marvellously congenial climate, a population of some of the world’s best horsemen, the…
Broodmare Feature: Gypsy Queen KZN Breeders Award Winner – Broodmare Of The Year 2011 With Gypsy’s Warning challenging her title for the Matriarch Stakes Grade 1 on 25 November and recently being in the media for selling at the Keeneland November Sale for a price of $1.05 million, we have a look at her dam…
American Pharoah Wins Triple Crown The drought is mercifully over. In the 37th year after Affirmed swept the classics in 1978, Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah toyed with the field of seven other horses to win the $1.5 million Gr1 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. After a good break, the Pioneerof the Nile colt trained by…
NZ Gr3 Win For Broodmare Sire St Petersburg At Trentham in New Zealand, star three year old filly Platinum Witness (California Dane-Chartreuse, by St. Petersburg) scored by two lengths for trainer Lisa Latta in the NZ$70,000 Gr3 Desert Gold Stakes over 1600m for three year old fillies. She went on to win well over fellow…
Impressive Noble Tune First Foals As Unbridled’s Song Gets Two Gr1’s As Noble Tune’s first impressive foals arrive this season, his grey sire Unbridled’s Song collected another two Gr1’s in a week after Unbridled Forever won her second start of the season in the Gr1 $500,000 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga, and Liam’s Map winning the…
National Yearling Sale – Two Day Results The National Yearling Sale continued its momentum yesterday with the South African record set for a filly [pictured bottom right] sold at R4,750 000 to Mike Rattray, purchased from Lammarskraal Stud – the farm he had sold a few months back. The filly by Fort Wood is out…