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Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards Tonight The Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards takes place tonight in Durban with a number of KZN-bred and associated horses amongst the nominations. One of the Champion Two Year Old Female nominees is King Of King’s daughter King’s Temptress. The filly made an unforgettable debut in April at Turffontein, winning…

Snow In The KZN Midlands Heavy snow-falls have arrived in the KZN Midlands, turning the dry landscape into a winter wonderland. Yellow Star Stud and Rathmor Stud reported thick snow and sent through a few photos. The foaling season has begun and the mares and new foals will be enjoying their comfortable warm stables until…

Backworth Stud: Look Out For This Filly At Next Year’s Sales Earlier this week we shared with you the news of the arrival of Tsunami’s beautful ‘pure’ black filly foal by King’s Chapel. Here is Tsunami’s spectacular grey yearling, a filly by Silvano – probably one of our top yearlings for next year’s Emperors Palace…

2012 Equus Award Nominations The annual Equus Awards take place 8 August at Emperor’s Palace and it is not surprising to see the likes of KZN-bred Dancewiththedevil and Summerhill raised-and-grazed Igugu(AUS) who may be competing for the Horse-Of-The-Year title, with their incredible performances over the last racing season. In the Older Filly/Mare category (four +),…

From The Horses Mouth We penned a piece yesterday on those “magnificent men and their flying machines“, and we were talking about our judges panel for next week’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Gallops (at Summerhill on Friday 19th October 11 am). Summerhill’s inauguration of the Ready To Run was initiated by the belief that…

Frankel Adds Sussex Stakes To 12 Wins Champion racehorse Frankel has left rivals trailing in his wake at the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood to notch his 12th win in a row. Five weeks after setting Royal Ascot alight with a scintillating victory in the Queen Anne Stakes, the unbeaten four-year-old once again proved too hot…

Barton Hall Stud: Congratulations Ken and Lynne Twort would like to applaud trainer Duncan Howells training feat of getting the Barton Hall-bred Kahal gelding Bwana Macube, who appears to be an extremely difficult horse to train, to win three times and place once from his last four races. Bwana Macube is out of Shee by…

Summerhill Once Again Do KZN Proud Summerhill Stud have achieved the incredible again, being crowned Champion Breeders of South Africa for the eighth consecutive year in a row – since 2005. According to the NHRA, who have the stats up to 30 July (but there is no doubt who the winner is) Summerhill have amassed…

Backworth Stud: Black And White…Hold On Tight! Hold on tight… that’s right! Our white mare, Tsunami, had a beautiful pure black King’s Chapel filly this weekend. DYNAMITE! Tsunami by Shaamit(IRE) was a winner at three over 1200m and is the dam of Tower Of Strength by Requiem (AUS): a winner at four over 1000m with…