Press Release: These Stories Are Worth The Telling Success on the turf often has unpretentious beginnings. That’s part of the daydream that tempts young people to persist with the prickly beast with bad legs that cost them a few thousand Rands, and arrived with a patched-up headstall and a torn rug. They remember the folklore,…
Hadlow Stud Welcome First Foal by Call To Combat Hadlow Stud have welcomed the first foal of Call To Combat, a colt which Cathy Martin describes as “a big strapping boy looks more like his dad than his mom! He is out of the All Fired Up mare Silent Heat. He was born at 11:45…
KZN Breeders Award Nominations 2012 The KZN Breeders Association will be hosting our annual Awards evening at Bellwood Cottages on 17 November, congratulations to all the breeders with horses nominated for this years awards. Summerhill Stud, being the champion breeders that they are, have the biggest nominee representation at the upcoming awards, with 11 nominations…
Backworth Stud: Champagne Wishes And Caviar Dreams Backworth-bred Caviar, by Var(USA) out of Lewinsky Lover by Jallad(USA), broke her maiden in fine style Sunday at Scottsville over 1000m, with an impressive five length winning margin under jockey Anthony Delpech. Congratulations to trainer Colin Scott and owners Rob Scott, Two Oceans Racing Syndicate (nom Mr K…
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…
Backworth Stud: Exciting Fillies By Horse Chestnut And Miesque’s Approval Horse Chestnut (SAF) – Exclusive Honour (SAF) by Exclusive Patriot (USA) We all know the legacy of Horse Chestnut, arguably the best racehorse to run in South Africa in the past 40 years, and South Africa’s only ever Triple Crown winner! In a short, but…
Press Release: It’s Official: R2.5 Million It’s quite astonishing how quickly the prize money for the Emperor’s Palace Ready To Run Cup has catapulted to its new level of R2,5 million. We need to remember that just five years ago it made headlines at R500 000, and today there is only one race in South…
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…
Aldora’s Soul Master Wins Listed Java Handicap Aldora Stud’s Soul Master, by the late great KZN-bred sire Jet Master, ran away with the Java Handicap Listed over 2450m last night at Turffontein by two lengths, carrying the top weight of the field with 60kgs under jockey Pierre Strydom. St John Gray’s home-bred Yer Maan (by…
A Celebration Of The Great A.P. Indy With A.P. Indy recently in the news regarding his last crop of yearlings to be sold at the Keeneland September Sale happening now and Just As Well having his first crop of foals being born this season, we thought it might be apt to have a look at…