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Alec Hogg: Horse Breeding … Interrupted The day I never expected has finally arrived. Today we started the paying forward of our breeding dream. I pleaded with the TBA and managed to squeak late inclusions into the July 12th KZN Broodmare and Weanling Sale. There’s a sense of finality when you send in a payment…

Frankel Connections Not Swayed By £1m Offer To Take On Black Caviar The Guardian reports that a £1m offer has been made to connections of Frankel (Galileo – Kind by Danehill) and Black Caviar (Bel Esprit – Helsinge by Desert Sun) in the hope that it will bring the two horses together in the Sussex…

Badger Lake Wins Durbanville Cup Listed Badger Lake, by Wood-Moore Manor Stud’s resident sire Badger’s Drift, won the Durbanville Cup Listed Handicap over 3200m at Kenilworth, beating a strong field of horses that included Gr 1 Ladbrokes Gold Cup winner In Writing(ARG). Badger Lake, out of the mare Swan Star by Mistral Dancer(CAN), won the…

Media Release: Greyville Night Racemeetings Postponed Inclement weather over the past month has forced Gold Circle to abandon the Greyville night racemeetings scheduled for October 30 and November 6. As a consequence racing action will only return to the City track on Sunday, November 18, when the second leg of the 2012 Avis Coach Charter…

KZN Breeders Million Mile – Going Back In Time The inaugural KZN Breeders Million Mile is set to run this coming Sunday, with the field including the likes of last year’s winner The Mouseketeer as well as Checcetti, we have a look at some of the horses who won this race – which was previously…

KZN-Breds Make Their Presence Felt At Turffontein Again Two KZN-Breds walked away with victory at Turffontein today, with a daughter of Mogok winning the Listed Oaks Trial over 2000 metres and Extra Zero winning the Grade 3 Sycamore Sprint over 1160 metres. The first is Markofdistinction, bred by Scott Bros out of the mare Markanawa(NZ)…

Backworth-bred Chocolicious Sold Down Under In a private deal brokered by Gary Moore of Gavelhouse, South African Grade 1 winner Chocolicious has been sold to Australians Darren and Elizabeth Dance, who will race her with a group of their clients from Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock. Bred at the picturesque Backworth Stud in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, the…

Main Man Striking Timing is everything, no doubt about it. Who would have thought that a stallion of Admire Main’s pedigree and aptitude would be a sire of quality juveniles. It just goes to show, class counts. While Admire Main ran off with his juvenile debut over 1400m by some seven lengths, it was late…

Vodacom Durban July Gallops This morning saw the running of the annual Vodacom Durban July Gallops on a beautiful fresh and bright morning, which saw the event being well attended by the public, with binoculars, race-cards, coffee and sticky buns in hand. The big race day will take place 7 July. Amongst the crowd were…