Guest Column: A Deep Connection 08 January, 2015 – Lisa Barrett The recent retirement of one of Japan’s greatest racemares of the modern age, Gentildonna has once again thrust the Sunday Silence tribe into the spotlight, as talk now turns to who she will be mated to. Gentildonna was primarily a stayer, and one wonders…
KZN Sire Links To Royal Ascot Gr1 Successes With Royal Ascot almost coming to an end – it has yielded some outstanding results with a few horses having direct links to KZN – such as Rathmors new import Noble Tune, Golden Sword, Just As Well and Spectrum. The first to start with is the outstanding…
Summerhill’s Summer Ready To Run Sale: Save The Date
Unbridled’s Song: Noble Tune Arriving; Will Take Charge In Longines Top 10 Equarius Bloodstock has reported that stallion prospect Noble Tune is enroute to South Africa from the United States to stand his first season at Rathmor Stud. The Gr2 and Gr3 winning son of Unbridled’s Song has been enthusiastically received by breeders around the…
Rosier Second In Laisserfaire Listed Voted the Cape’s Juvenile Filly Of The Year at the Cape Racing Awards, Rosier finished second to Cold As Ice at Kenilworth on 27 December in the Laisserfaire Stakes Listed over 1100m, with Varikate and Als Bonanaza placing respectively behind the Kildonan filly. Bred and owned by Mary Slack of…
Breeding Season 2014: Ato Arrives At Summerhill Stud The arrival of a new stallion at Summerhill always stirs the juices. We like to think that to get through the eye of the stallion barn’s needle, takes a racehorse of extraordinary quality and exacting standards. Form, physique and family are the fundamentals, and they need to…
Gr1 Places For A.P. Answer And Kildonan At Scottsville Young KZN sires A.P. Answer and Kildonan are getting off the mark. Yet another successful graduate off the 2013 Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale, Clifton-bred Beckedorf by A.P. Answer placed in the Gr1 Tsogo Sun Medallion at Scottsville yesterday. A R70 000 graduate owned by Eric Buhr…
Son Of Galileo To Stand At Yellow Star Stud For 2014 Very exciting news for KZN emerged again this week as Yellow Star Stud announced that they have acquired the first son of the international champion sire Galileo to stand at stud in South Africa – the handsome grey three-quarter brother to the famous Frankel,…
Rathmor Stud Secure Fantastic Stallion Prospect: Noble Tune(USA) Rathmor Stud have purchased an exciting stallion prospect for the 2014 breeding season. Noble Tune(USA), impeccably-bred with a top-class race record to boot, will be the first son of Unbridled’s Song to stand in South Africa. He is expected to arrive in June ahead of the breeding…
Guest Column: The Year Of The Triple Crown 06 June, 2015 – Lisa Barrett This year sees yet another attempt by a horse to capture America’s elusive Triple Crown. If he wins the Belmont Stakes, American Pharoah will become the first horse since Affirmed [pictured below] in 1978 to win America’s fabled crown. What makes…