Graceland Farm In Pictures A 30 hectare piece of Paradise. Alec and Jeanette Hogg’s Graceland has all the creature comforts – a designer homestead, ten stables, an art gallery with kiln and potter’s wheel; a boardroom – and a magnificent American Ash office that was constructed as a soundproof studio. Custom-built for broadcaster Alec Hogg…
Model K Foals Full-Sister To Mannequin Recent sale topping broodmare, Model K by Model Man, foaled a big healthy filly by Kahal, Kerry Jack reports. The filly, bred and owned by Lawrence Wernars foaled down at The Meadows and is a full-sister to Mannequin. Now a six-year old, Mannequin is a winner of the Banyana…
2012 Emperors Palace Ready-To-Run Sale Day One The first day of the 2012 Emperors Palace Ready to Run Sale ended on a high, with both aggregate and average up on last year. Day one saw the aggregate rise from R12.17 million to R13.08 million, while the average increased from R166 712 to a healthy R210…
Gr 2 Emerald Cup To Be Run On Thursday Jack Milner of tabnews.co.za reports that two of the runners carded for the R600,000 Emerald Cup over 1450m have been withdrawn due to the change in date. In A Rush, trained by Joey Ramsden and bred by Peter Choice, and Port Elizabeth-based Bob ’N Weave, trained…
Backworth Stud: How ‘Var’st Can You Go? Backworth Stud welcomed the news this week of the arrival of our sixth foal of the season, a lovely colt born at Avontuur Stud in the Western Cape. By the sire of Variety Club, 2012 Equus Horse of The Year, out of In Camera by Caesour, we’re wondering…
Fit For A Princess It’s never happened before. Probably not in South Africa, certainly not in racing. Our Guests of Honour for this year’s renewal of the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup (and its attendant sale) are His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho and Princess Charlene of Monaco. For all those budding historians…
Backworth Stud: Luxardo Wins Maiden By Five Backworth-bred Luxardo, by Mogok(USA) out of Absolut Star by Salaadim(USA), stormed to a convincing five length win over 1000m at Scottsville Saturday, under a confident ride from jockey Keagan de Melo for trainers Herman Brown and Frank Robinson. The grey 3-year-old colt, who is a half-brother to the…
Tropical Empire(AUS) and Spectrum(IRE) First Foals Yellow Star Stud have had their first foals arrive, including from first season sire Tropical Empire(AUS) and Spectrum(IRE) who stood his first season in KZN last year. The first foal is an impressive filly who looks very much like her sire Tropical Empire, and Yellow Star Stud have described…
Let The Games Begin In the year of Igugu, we still drove all the way to the Vaal for the Emperors Palace Ready To Run draw. Mike de Kock had three in the field; Checcetti, Checkeche and Igugu, and they drew 13, 14 and 15; some line-up, some draw! In those days, we participated in…
Listed Winners For KZN At The Vaal KZN had a successful day at the Vaal with two Listed winners. Unfortunately the much anticipated race at the Vaal today saw Africa’s richest race on sand, the Gr 2 Emerald Cup, being cancelled right up to the moment when the horses were waiting to enter the starting…