Four On The Trot For Scott Bros’ Black Pepper Scott Bros had a great weekend’s racing with six winners produced by their stallions over three days at four tracks – three winners on Sunday at Scottsville alone each by Miesque’s Approval (His Approval – bred by Stewart MacGregor), The Sheik (Boom Sheiktheroom bred by Far…
Invitation: Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day 2014
Brilliant Sunday Racing For Clifton Stud Clifton Stud had a great race day on Sunday with Print The Pounds taking home the first leg of the Zimbabwean Triple Tiara and Super Trouper winning his 10th race at Borrowdale, whilst Atso gelding Risky Rosco took home his second win at Scottsville. Print The Pounds, by A.P….
Rathmor’s Gran Blanco To Hit The Track Soon One of the world’s rarest Thoroughbreds, KZN-born Gran Blanco is scheduled to have his first start on the track in Gauteng soon, under the care of trainer Robbie Sage. Bred by Mike and Tanya McHardy of Rathmor Stud, the three year old white medicine hat colt by…
Spectrum Update: Slade Power Wins Gr1 July Cup At Newmarket Spectrum continues to make news overseas – where his Gr1 winning and now producing grandson, Dutch Art, is now having significant success with Slade Power – winning two Gr1’s on the trot. Slade Power is Europe’s champion sprinter after a dominant performance in the July…
Rizeena Second In Gr1 Falmouth Cup Gr1 winning Rizeena, a close relative to Rathmor’s new resident sire Noble Tune, ran second in the Gr1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket on Friday over eight furlongs. Owned by Shaikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum, Rizeena was bidding to pocket a second Gr1 win following her success in the Coronation…
CTS Cape Premier Sales Results For KZN Sires The CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale saw KZN achieve success with Middlefield Stud’s Fort Wood yearling out of Linsumi sell for R1million. A half-brother to Wishful Eye (now a broodmare at Piemonte Stud in KZN with a stunning Kahal colt at foot), a Var mare also bred…
The King Of KZN Passes On: Kahal(GB) The most successful son of Machiavellian to have stood at stud in South Africa, courtesy of his owners Shadwell Stud, Kahal was euthanized this morning after complications arose from abdominal tumours. The stallion, KZN’s top sire and in South Africa’s top five since 2009, he was the sire…
KZN-bred Futura Wins Gr1 L’Ormarins Queens Plate In Style Brett Crawford’s outstanding KZN-bred Futura set course for a serious assault on the Gr1 J&B Met in three weeks time, as he stormed to victory in the R1 million L’Ormarins Gr1 Queen’s Plate at Kenilworth on Saturday. A 2012 R500 000 National Yearling Sale graduate, Futura…
King Of Kings Relocated To The Fort Stud A former leader of the National Log For Sires Of Two Year Olds by Stakes Earned, King Of Kings has been relocated to The Fort Stud, owned and managed by Jill Fox. Previously standing at Somerset Stud and Clifton Stud, he was the only son of the…