The Spring Valley Stud will be offering 11 two-year-olds (eight as agent) at the 2019 Emperors Palace National 2YO Sale, set to take place in Germiston on August 15th and 16th. This consignment is made up of lots by such stallions as Legislate, Mogok, Querari, The Apache, What A Winter, and Var to name but…
Gold Circle’s Racing Awards takes place 23 August in the magnificent venue of the Silver Ring, at Hollywoodbets Greyville.
Four #kznbreds have been nominated
A Gr1 winner of the Empress Club Stakes, Middlefield Stud’s Byword filly comes up against last season’s reigning horse of the year, Oh Susanna (AUS) in the category of Champion Older Female, distance immaterial.
Piemonte will be offering a large draft of 15 two-year-olds at this year’s sale, with their consignment including the offspring of such sires as Act Of War, Capetown Noir, Flying The Flag, Global View, Ideal World, Oratorio and Toreador.
The national 2018 / 2019 racing season curtain came down yesterday, and appropriately the final race in the country to be run was won by a #kznbred, a Curved Ball half-sister to a Gr2 winner Tales Of Bravery, named Sweet Empress, bred by Bruce Le Roux of Spring Valley Stud. Amongst KZN’s success for the…
New Predator was in fine condition and full of zest when paraded at the Bush Hill Stud stallion day last Friday and so were his colleagues Flying The Flag and Redoute’s Promise.
The first came with the beautiful Clifton-bred Soft Falling Rain filly Montreal Mist, out of Esterel by Var. Purchased at the National Yearling Sale Session 1 in 2018 for R700 000 and owned in partnership by Mary Slack and Michael Javett, Montreal Mist gave her deceased sire his first Graded Stakes winner. The second was Summerhill-bred daughter of Brave Tin Soldier, taking the Gr2 Kuda Gold Bracelet.
A stallion who has always struggled to gain support, Just As Well produced a double yesterday at Hollywoodbets Scottsville and had a second with King Julian. The bay stallion with an immaculate Gr1 winning record, pedigree and siblings stands at Spring Valley Stud.
“Those who know Lance will tell you he’s a horse of immaculate physical proportions, beautifully balanced, athletic, clean legged and a fluid, panther-like mover. His foals are like peas-in-a-pod, solidly built, grand movers on perfect limbs with big engines, and like their father, deep, rich bays.”
THE 2019 Equus Awards Function will be held at Emperors Palace on Tuesday, 13 August and if ever there was an automatic choice for Broodmare Of The Year, it is Wilgerbosdrift’s Halfway to Heaven, the prolific producer of champions. ANDREW HARRISON tells her story in Turf Talk’s daily Newsletter.