Backworth Stud: The Colour Of Courage Backworth-bred Colour Of Courage (Judpot – Exclusive Honour) scored a tenacious first win, first time out in the first at Greyville Friday evening for the experienced training duo of Mike and Rae Miller under jockey Sean Veale. Varsfontein owner Susan Rowett Kalmanson (Chairperson of the TBA), and Carl and…
KZN’s St Petersburg(AUS) Produces Gr 1 Winner In Australia St Petersburg(AUS) has sired a Grade 1 winner in Australia with Solzhenitsyn(NZ), a bay gelding out of Tri Victory(NZ) by Victory Dance(IRE). Solzhenitsyn won the Gr 1 Toorak Handicap in Australia at Caulfield over 1600m on 13 October, on turf in good going for a stake…
KZN Breeders Race Day Invitation The annual KZN Breeders Race Day is held the week before the running of the Vodacom Durban July, and for the first time will feature only racehorses registered with the KZN Breeders Premium Scheme as “KZN-breds”– the only financial incentive scheme to own and breed racehorses in South Africa. Previously…
King Of Kings Leading South African Sire Of Two Year Olds Former 2000 Guineas winner, King of Kings, is enjoying a purple patch with his juveniles this season. The son of Sadler’s Wells is currently atop of the South African Two Year Old Sires list, with his juvenile runners having earned over R450 000 this…
Just As Well – Raven’s Pass And E Dubai Continue Family Success As more of Just As Well’s first impressive foals are born this season, the stallion’s relatives through his dam-line are doing the business overseas, producing Group winners internationally. Just As Well, a Gr 1 winner with an impeccable pedigree is an exciting sire…
2013 Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale App Available The TBA have launched an app for ipad-users for the upcoming 2013 Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale. Follow the link www.equineline.co.za to use it. The catalogue is also available in print format as well as online at www.tba.co.za. A sale that has produced three Group winning horses including Happy…
Daughter Of Mr Greeley To Run In Gr 1 1000 Guineas Irish-bred daughter of Mr Greeley – the sire of KZN’s new Gr 1 winning stallion prospect Crusade – named What a Name, is due to run in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday 5 May. She is out of a Dayjur mare named…
A.P. Answer – The ‘Soundings’ Success Peter Blyth of Clifton Stud is excited to report of the successes of sire Green Tune – who shares a dam-line with Clifton’s resident young sire, A.P. Answer. Green Tune died prematurely at stud in 2011, but his influence as a sire, sire-of-sires and broodmare sire are being felt…
Seal Gets Gr 3 Victory; Listed Win For Broodmare Sire King Of Kings Seal grabbed his ninth victory in the Gr 3 Jubilee Handicap over 1800m at Turffontein from Heavy Metal, Maine Dane and Glorious Jet – amongst a strong field of horses by a quarter of a length, shouldering 61kgs under jockey Francois Herholdt….
Kahal And Mogok Dominate Weekend In Dubai And Turffontein KZN had a phenomenal weekend both internationally and locally for Kahal and Mogok – notably with The Apache producing a powerful run in the Gr 1 Dubai Duty Free, and Love Struck taking home the Gr 1 SA Classic. An interesting connection between these two top…