Visionaire’s First Winner Romps Home By Almost Seven Lengths On Debut Visionaire had his first winner at Scottsville yesterday over 1000m, the two year old filly Royal Pleasure showing plenty of speed to annihilate the field on debut by close to seven lengths for her owners, the 3 A Racing Syndicate (Nom: Mr W A…
Piemonte’s Kalamain Eastern Cape’s Champion 3YO Kalamain Wins The Guineas Plate. Image: Sporting Post Lee and Dino Scribante’s young Piemonte Stud have had their first Award success from their first crop of yearlings to be sold in Piemonte’s name, with Kalamain collecting the East Cape Racing Award for Champion Three Year Old. The Racing Association…
Sarah Whitelaw Visits KZN Sarah Whitelaw with Rathmor’s first season sire, Noble Tune(USA). A top breeding and racing journalist both locally and internationally, Sarah Whitelaw visited a few of our breeding establishments in KZN, from Eston to Mooi River last week in unusually warm weather for the KZN Midlands winter. A lady passionate about pedigrees…
Unbeaten Toreador Filly Wins Swallow Stakes Listed The Ormond Ferraris-trained Gr3 Magnolia Handicap winner Lazer Star retained her unbeaten record with a facile win in Saturday’s R150 000 Listed Swallow Stakes run over the Turffontein 1160m straight. The daughter of Toreador was given an armchair ride by Weichong Marwing and kept things in the family…
Thrust Keeps Toreador In Form Rikitikitana comes home lonely at Scottsville. Image: Gold Circle Toreador continues great form and with just three days into September, he has had two winners and three places with two talented colts – Rikitikitana and Thrust at Scottsville and the Vaal respectively. Rikitikitana had his first win for the Sean…
Nine KZN Breds In Four Gr1’s At Scottsville Nine KZN-breds will be competing in the four big Gr1’s on Saturday in Scottsville, amongst them our young sires’ Visionaire and Just As Well are well represented. Summerhill’s son of Grand Slam has got off to a cracking start at stud, with a number of juveniles not…
Two Winners In Two Days For Kildonan Kildonan’s progeny have won two races over the last two days with Beach Goddess and Scots Snog. His Gr2 winning daughter who was awarded the Cape Racing Award for Juvenile Filly last year – Rosier, is scheduled to run this afternoon in the Gr2 Sceptre Stakes at Kenilworth….
Yellow Star Stud Annual Farm Sale Results Top selling mare, Dynasty Dancer, in foal to Kildonan. Yellow Star Stud held their Annual Farm Sale on the first day of Spring which was reflected by the blue skies and a beautiful day in the Midlands with buyers coming from far and wide to inspect the horses….
Press Release: Linngari Joins Summerhill For The 2015 Season For most racing aficionados, the weekends are “TV time” for the marquee events of the sport. Yet ever since Mike de Kock ventured upon his pioneering conquests of the riches of Dubai, Thursday evenings have become a summer “ritual” for South African fans. The early pace…
Noble Tune Update: Mare Pure Symmetry Sold For $230 000 At Keeneland Pure Symmetry on the left, her 2014 colt by Kitten’s Joy on the right A half-sister to the third dam of Rathmor’s resident sire Noble Tune, flashy chestnut mare Pure Symmetry, sold for $230 000 at the recent Keeneland January Sale. The dam…