Kahal Adds Another Gr 2 This Season Kahal continues his Group race successes this season, with daughter Festival Of Fire taking home the Gr 2 KRA Fillies Guineas at Greyville on Saturday. Festival Of Fire started as the 2-1 favourite, with jocky Bernard Fayd’herbe keeping her in midfield on the rail – she showed a…
Seal Takes Home Aquanaut Listed It was Guineas Day at Turffontein on Saturday and once again our KZN-breds flew the flag with the likes of Seal winning the Aquanaut Listed and a number of Black-Type places. The Gr 3 Acacia Handicap saw Formation (Sarge – Polonaise by Centenary) run second to Amur Affair for breeder,…
Foal News From St Helier Stud St Helier Stud’s second foal of the season pictured with her dam Maximum Break and stud manager Annie Woodham. The foal is a lovely bay filly by Ideal World. Maximum Break is a four-time winner by Western Winter and a half-sister to the super star duo of Pocket Power…
Fastnet Rock Colt Tops Karaka Sale Fastnet Rock, sire of the exciting young sire Curved Ball, is enjoying a tremendous season once again. Fresh off winning his first sires premiership, the son of Danehill is again in the headlines with a string of feature race winners, including the G1 winners Nechita and Sea Siren. A…
7 Of Top 10 Leading National Log By AEPR Are KZN Breeders Sportingpost.co.za’s stats as per 24 November reveal that out of the top 10 Leading Breeders by Average Earnings Per Runner (AEPR), seven of them are proudly registered as KZN Breeders, and the KZN Breeders Premium Scheme – for which breeders are rewarded with…
International News For Young Sires Byword(GB) and Golden Sword(GB) Zatsfine, a half-sister to South Africa’s exciting young sire Byword, won a good race in France on Thursday. The daughter of Oasis Dream won a smart race over 1400m at Dieppe, enhancing her future stud value in the process. She won the Prix Nicholas and has…
Backworth Stud: And So The Breeding Season Begins! Backworth Stud got off to a good start to the season yesterday with 2 mares being covered in KwaZulu-Natal and 3 in the Cape, and more bookings for today. It’s an exciting year for Backworth ahead, and with a confident belief that the Thoroughbred and Racing industry…
Fort Larned Breeders Cup Success For Local Sire Just As Well(USA) E Dubai, who falls under the second dam of Just As Well has sired another impressive Gr 1 winner with Fort Larned in the recent Breeders Cup Classic for a stake of $5 million. Fort Larned led from gate to wire and held off…
KZN-bred Ice Machine Scintillating Gr 2 Green Point Win KZN-bred Silvano gelding Ice Machine’s grabbed a last gasp win in Saturday’s R300 000 Gr 2 Green Point Stakes run at WFA, over the Kenilworth winter mile. Kevin Shea swooped from nowhere with a cool balanced ride, to sour what looked like a dream return to…
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day 2013 Bush Hill Stud will be hosting their annual Stallion Day on 28 July in Mooi River – where they will introduce exciting young sire prospect and multiple Group winner Irish Flame and the proven Toreador, who will be covering his first KZN book of mares this season. Others that…