Dual Gr1 classic winner Purple Pitcher (New Predator) has joined the stallion ranks at Hadlow Stud in KwaZulu-Natal. He will remain in the province for the foreseeable future, not only because KZN racing is in the midst of a revival, but also for the convenience of his owner, Stinky Pooe. Pooe, who has a holiday…
Camargue Stud unveiled their latest foals from Got The Greenlight, the five time Grade One winning stallion son of multiple Champion Sire Gimmethegreenlight. You can view Got The Greenlights pedigree and further information on the KZN Breeders page – https://kznbreeders.co.za/stallion/got-the-greenlight/ Picture of Got The Greenlight: credit, Candiese Lenferna. #KZNStallions#KZNQuality#GotTheGreenlght#FutureEquineChampions
Champion Sandringham Summit will return to his birthplace Varsfontein Stud for stallion duties at the conclusion of his racing career. The champion in action (Pic – Candiese Lenferna) Leading consultant John Freeman has been mandated to syndicate the son of resident champion Gimmethegreenlight for stallion duties, and he confirmed that “shares literally flew off the…
Kahal as a broodmare sire has won a Gr1 and a Gr2 in the space of a week in two different provinces, as the broodmare sire of Ambiance-bred Royal Victory and Kwinta’s Light bred by Syrilla Stud. The deceased son of Machiavellian out of a Green Desert mare, who stood at Summerhill Stud for much…
Rabada enjoyed a double on the turf on Wednesday, with his doppelgänger son Addabar winning by over five lengths in hand while Umhlali snuck up on the outside rail under Rachel Venniker to grab victory on the line. Addabar made a winning return to his form, winning easily under Calvin Habib unextended by over five…
Twice Grade 1-winner Rabada was very well received by a packed Summerveld clubhouse in an unusual stallion day on Saturday for which he was transported down form his home at Wartburg’s Bloomhill Stud down to the KZN’s only major training centre. The former Mike Azzie-trained Brave Tin Soldier stallion won the Gr 1 Premier’s Champion…
Peter Blyth who stands Eden Roc on behalf of the KZN Breeders Club at Clifton Stud, was delighted to announce that the Gr1 winning son of Var has his first mares confirmed in foal. The half brother to star Sandringham Summit, recently bestowed with the Equus Champion 2YO Award, is an exciting acquisition for KZN…
Former Gr 1 Premier’s Champion Stakes and Gr 1 Daily News 2000 winner Rabada was left out of the annual Sires Catalogue and therefore he will be transported down to Summerveld on 16 September for a “Stallion Day”. Sandra Tretheway of Bloomhill Stud in Wartburg said, “We’re going to bring him down to the people…
Blue Sky Thoroughbreds’ sire Hat Puntano got off to a start last year with Givers Grace (bred by Wynnholme Stud) winning second time out for Carl Hewitson, and from very limited representation on the track, he has produced his second winner for Glen Kotzen at Hollywoodbets Durbanville. Owned by Mr Jaime and Mariza Vilela, who…
Bloomhill Stud resident sire Rabada, a Gr1 winner at ages 2 and 3, has seen his progeny frequenting the winners box almost 50% of the time last season and he looks to be continuing the momentum. MJ Odendaal’s Addabar, which is Rabada backwards, looks a smart sort and has now won back to back over…
Gold Circle’s podcast team sat down with Peter Blyth of Clifton Stud, who stands the exciting Gr1 winning son of Var, Eden Roc, on behalf of the KZN Breeders Club.
Blue Sky Thoroughbreds Trippi sire Chimichuri Run has got off the mark with his first foal on the ground, an impressive filly pictured at less than week old, of grey BSA Ready To Run Sales Cup winner, Spiritofthegroove. Both Chimichuri Run and Spiritofthegroove (Visionaire) were trained by Sean Tarry, with the grey mare winning twice…
Sandringham Summit’s sensational victory in the R700 000 World Pool Moment Of The Day Gr1 Champion Stakes on World Pool Gold Cup day again boosted the exciting prospects of his Var half-brother Eden Roc, who is the KZN Breeders Club’s newest stallion recruit. The athletic specimen stands at Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud near…
Eden Roc’s smart Gimmethegreenlight half brother further reinforced Eden Roc’s terrific pedigree, winning the World Pool Moment Of The Day Champion Stakes (Grade 1) for trainer David Nieuwenhuizen and owner Mr Rakesh Singh. Sandringham Summit made it two wins back to back, ridden by Calvin Habib the handsome 2yo colt saw him beat the speedy Main…
The KZN Breeders Club’s newest stallion addition, Eden Roc, saw his half brother Sandringham Summit add to Eden Roc’s already impressive pedigree to win the same race his Var brother did in 2019, the Gr2 Durban Golden Horseshoe over 1400m. Sandringham Summit defeated feature winner Gimmeanotherchance in the process, as well as Guy Gibson who…
The KZN Breeders Club have purchased Gr1 winning son of Var, Eden Roc, to stand at stud in KZN. A quality son of Var, a sire who needs no introduction, is out of Captain Al mare Townsend. The handsome bay colt boasts a pedigree that equals his good looks and race record, and he has…
The smartly bred son of Noble Tune followed through on his good form to impress at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on the weekend. The win was part of a double for owner and KZN Breeder, Rose Waterman-Wentzel of Twilight Moon Equine on the day, and also enjoyed a second place. All three horses for Waterman Wentzel of…
Godswood bred by Bush Hill Stud enjoyed his seventh career win on March 30th for the training combination of Messrs Vosloo and Botes, owned by Allan Peters and the Hyperpaint Syndicate. Godswood, out of Jallad mare Bluebell Wood won by two lengths from recent winner Sheldon over 1000m at the Vaal. MK’s Pride put up…
New Predator (New Approach) is smartly out of the starting blocks with an incredible 80% winners to runners, with four winners from five runners on the track at the moment. Incredibly, from 11 runs to date there are four wins and the balance all places – not one of his progeny has yet to be…
Rollwiththepunches joins War Of Athena, Bartholdi, Battle Force, Bold Act and Stella Act on the list of Black Type horses for Summerhill Equestrian sire Act Of War, winning the Gr3 World Sports Betting Tommy Hotspur by a quarter of a length over 1000m in very soft going. The Summerhill Stud bred is a half brother…
Blue Sky Thoroughbred resident sire New Predator is off the starting blocks, producing his first winner at Hollywoodbets Greyville on the turf with Clifton-bred Predator’s Feast from just her third race. She had placed in both previous starts over 800m and 1000m. Just a R30 000 graduate off the KZN Yearling Sale which took place…
Blue Sky Thoroughbreds imported Gr1 Argentine champ, Hat Puntano, has kicked off his stud career with early success as Givers Grace came through to win at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Monday for breeder Ingrid Klug of Wynnholme Stud. Givers Grace beat the favourite African Folklore by a half length in a time of 62,06 secs. It…
Clifton Stud resident Running Brave, owned by her owner and trainer Fanie Bronkhorst in partnership with Bryan and Taryn Spong, has been confirmed in foal to Gr1 producing Act Of War. The multiple Group winning daughter of Brave Tin Soldier who experienced narrow defeats to finish second in the Gr1 Empress Club Stakes (twice) and…
Five time Gr1 winner and Equus Champion 2YO and 3YO of his generation, Got The Greenlight has had his first mares confirmed in foal. Standing at Camargue Stud in Caversham, the son of Champion sire Gimmethegreenlight and the first at stud in South Africa has a full book for his first season, including visiting mares…
The KZN Breeders Awards for 2022 will be taking place once more at the Nottingham `Road Hotel on Saturday, 3 December. The nominees include a standout category for Bloomhill Stud broodmare Wysiwyg, who is the dam of both Gr1 male sprint nominees, Bohica and Bartholdi. Capetown Noir enjoyed a sterling year with both Under Your…
Bruce Le Roux is delighted to report that Chimichuri Run’s first two mares that he covered have been confirmed in foal. Bruce is also thrilled to report that the stallion has been supported and as of 21 September, has covered 17 mares to date. The Gr1 winning son of Trippi is an exciting addition to…
As a result of an opportunity arising, we recently made the difficult decision to close down the boarding aspect of Bush Hill Stud. Both New Predator and Willow Magic have relocated to Blue Sky Thoroughbreds and we will continue to assist with their admin and marketing. Last Winter will move across to Clifton Stud imminently. …
The handsome son of Vercingetorix, Summa Cum Laude, will be standing his second season at Hadlow Stud. The first son of Vercingetorix to retire to stud in South Africa, he already has prominent supporters waiting patiently for the breeding season to start. Since Vercingetorix’s fast and meteoric rise in the stallion ranks makes access to…
With his son Royal Agility paying tribute by winning again in Hong Kong on Friday, popular Gr1 stallion Mambo In Seattle was euthanised last Wednesday. Originally based at Moutonshoek in the Cape, the son of Kingmambo relocated to Clifton Stud in KZN in 2018. Mambo In Seattle (Kingmambo – Weekend In Seattle) “With a heavy…
Gr1 Tsogo Sun Sprint winner Chimichuri Run conditioned by multiple champion trainer Sean Tarry, will be returning to his KZN pedigree roots to stand at Bruce Le Roux and Tinus Gericke’s Blue Sky Thoroughbreds operation in Mooi River. The Drakenstein-bred son of Trippi is the second to go to stud for his sire, out of…
Rathmor Stud’s son of War Front is preparing for his second season at stud in South Africa. He is the third son of his Storm Cat dam Serena’s Cat to stand at stud – his older brothers being Gr1 winner Honor Code (AP Indy) and Noble Tune (Unbridled’s Song). Sold for $2,6-million as a weanling,…
The opening of Champions Season in KZN kicked off on Saturday, and saw the World Sports Betting Dash over 400m and the Gr2 World Sports Betting Fillies Guineas make KZN winners on the day. The Piemonte-bred Faustino, by Crusade out of fast Var mare Wishful Eye, jump from the 400m in a race so blistering…
A Grade One winner at age two and three, Rabada (Brave Tin Soldier) has produced his first winner at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Sunday. The Summerhill Stud-bred filly named Mysterious Girl won second time out for trainer Yogas Govender. Rabada, himself a Summerhill bred with a pure Summerhill pedigree, is represented by two smart Lots at…
Willow Magic has enjoyed three winners and three places in three days. The Bush Hill resident son of world champions stud phenomenon Dubawi is enjoying a purple patch country wide. With MK’s Pride getting a much deserved Gr1 win on Saturday, Peter Muscutt stepped out a handsome bay out of a Var mare won third…
A fairytale story that has come full circle, Mr Koos Nkale’s MK’s Pride plugged on doggedly under Muzi Yeni to take the Gr1 Wilgerbosdrift HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes for the stable of Paul Peter. He won by three quarters of a length over the mile trip, beating Argentine bred Peurto Manzano and July /…
Eight year old ultra consistent Kahal mare Rouge Allure, has won her first feature of her career, taking the Jacaranda Listed at Turffontein over 1800m in very soft going. The tough Summerhill-bred mare, out of Mekyaas by Pivotal, is now a 13-time winner trained by Stephen Moffat and owned by Mr Albert Rapp in partnership…
In a coup for breeding in KZN, five-time Gr1 winner Got The Greenlight has been purchased and will be standing at Brett Van Laun’s Camargue Stud in Caversham. Brett Van Laun commented, “Got The Greenlight will change the KZN Breeders landscape. He is the real deal!” The son of champion sire Gimmethegreenlight will be the…
The late Gr1 winner Crusade has had 26 winners this season, and another double at Hollywoodbets Greyville. Producing consistent earners, Crusade (Mr Greeley) started out his career at Scott Bros before relocating to Clifton Stud. Running Freely won well under Warren Kennedy over 1200m, bred by Brett Van Laun of Camargue Stud, and races the…
Bush Hill Stud resident sire Willow Magic enjoyed a double at Turffontein on Thursday. The Graded Stakes producing sire by the sensational Dubawi, kicked off Race 1 with Bally Magic, a Bush Hill-bred 3yo colt out of an imported Irish mare by Entrepreneur. The bay colt is owned by Larry Nestadt and trained by Candice…
Bush Hill’s beautifully bred sire Flying The Flag is in top form, and saw a recent courageous win at Hollywoodbets Scottsville with Hey Bill, a tall handsome gelding bred by Bruce Le Roux and trained by Michael Roberts. It is the second win for the gelding under a superb ride from star female apprentice Rachel…
Kuuma, a Summerhill-bred son of Lance, gave his sire another win and gave Hollywood Syndicate the third of their first treble at the racetrack on Monday. Kuuma is trained by Sean Tarry. In turn, Kuuma also provided the victory of the first three past the post for Hollywood, another achievement in their racing career. Kuuma…
Its always an unusual feat when a mare produces a double in a week, and Clifton resident mare Irresistable Chris, born and bred in Brazil, has done just that for Clifton. Formerly owned by Khaya Stables, who bred Admire Me, the mare has clicked well with Piemonte Stud’s Capetown Noir who is currently enjoying a…
For veteran trainer Mike Azzie the Capetown Noir gelding’s victory in the Pongracz Gr1 Cape Flying Championship buried a frustrating legacy of treble runner-up finishes in the speed spectacle, as well as the hotly debated National Currency third place behind Eli’s Game in the 2003 renewal. Azzie, who trains in partnership with his son Adam,…
Wishful Girl Linn made it six wins for her owner Mr Ebrahim at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday. The daughter of Linngari bred by Summerhill Stud from the family of It’s My Turn has won over distances of 1200m – 1600m. She is out of a Western Winter / Jungle Cove 5-time winning mare who also…
The late Crusade produced three winners at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday, producing for Blue Sky Thoroughbreds, Bush Hill Stud and The Fort Stud. Trainer Gary Rich enjoyed a double with 3yo filly Corner Crusade, out of Kileigh by Go Deputy, from the family of Abashiri and Yard Arm. Gary ‘inherited’ the filly from Lowan Denysschen…
Former Summerhill sire Traffic Guard has two five year olds keeping his name in lights, with five year old mare Aquae Sulis having found smart recent form, and the ever consistent 5yo gelding Chatterton’s Keeper both achieving six wins each. By super sire More Than Ready, Traffic Guard raced until the age of six successfully…
War Of Athena looked back to her best on Saturday, winning a quality Pinnacle at Turffontein which included Triple Crown winner Malmoos. After a 5th in the Gr1 WSB Summer Cup in a tough race, this was the 11th win for the 4yo daughter of Act Of War who took her earnings to over R1,9-million….
Bush Hill Stud’s impeccably bred son of Galileo, Flying The Flag, is enjoying a productive December with three wins and three seconds in three provinces. The beautifully-bred Essos out of a Danehill Dancer mare, bred by Wilgerbosdrift and Mauritzfontein, won for the second time for owner Mrs Suzette Viljoen in PE with trainer Zietsman Oosthuizen….
Noble Tune, who recently relocated to Camargue Stud, has passed away unexpectedly. The sire of Gr3 Gold Cup winner Paths Of Victory was humanely euthanised on the operating table after vets did their best to assist the son of Unbridled’s Song. Noble Tune with a purple pedigree, a Gr2 and Gr3 winner in America as…
An outstanding result at Kenilworth on Wednesday for Ridgemont Highlands and Brett Crawford was more good news for Hadlow Stud’s stallion Summa Cum Laude owned by Anne and Bruce Nicolas, a half-brother to Australian resident Gr1 winning broodmare In The Fast Lane. The Jet Master mare produced two exceptional winners at Kenilworth. The Ridgemont team…
Gr1 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf 2nd placed Noble Tune has returned to KZN where he is standing at Brett Van Laun’s Camargue Stud. The son of Unbridled’s Song and the sire of Gold Cup winner Paths Of Victory, is currently on an impressive statistic of 36% winners to runners according to the latest nhra.co.za stats….
Ted Hughes’ stallion by High Chaparral, Golden Sword, passed on after an unfortunate accident. “A very sad day yesterday. We lost Golden Sword to a freak accident at the farm. The record holder over 2000m in Dubai and two lengths behind Sea the Stars in the 2009 Epsom Derby, will be sorely missed by us….
Warwick and Karin Render of Bush Hill Stud wait with bated breath for the full sister to MK’s Pride to arrive. Out of the Admire Main mare Ikimasu, the outstanding MK’s Pride has exceeded expectations! His sire Willow Magic has blown many of us away, and people are only just starting to realize what he…
Declarationofpeace has got off to a cracking start at stud which includes an outstanding quality of broodmares. Notably amongst them is Jet Master mare Mystery Dame – the dam of Gr1 winner Lady In Black and Gr2 Snaith-trained winner, Nexus. Covering a full book of 86 in his first season, amongst the mares is the…
A fairytale that brightened the gloom of 2020, a year that all of us would rather forget, looks set to continue. Koos Nkale’s tough-as-teak Willow Magic colt MK’S Pride took his earnings over the R1 million mark as he clinched his seventh victory with a typically gutsy showing to win Sunday’s R300 000 Gr2 Joburg…
Bush Hill sprinting sire New Predator (AUS) has his first yearlings which will be heading for sales next year, and based on the top quality of the individuals, many farms have returned mares to the son of New Approach who ticks all the boxes with his physical looks and pedigree, making him an easy stallion…
The Gr1 sprinting son of Dubawi, Willow Magic, had a double at Turffontein on Thursday. Both horses were bred by Summerhill. Pick A Lily (Pick Of The Field by Kahal) kicked off the double, breaking her maiden over 1200m after earning a cheque in 11 of her previous 12 starts for trainer David Nieuwenhuisen and…
Sean Tarry and Lyle Hewitson owned the Saturday afternoon at Turffontein as the duo produced four good winners, including a smashing seasonal debut by Gr1 Allan Robertson winner Under Your Spell. South Africa’s highest rated 3yo filly, and considered by some to have been a preferable choice as Equus Champion 2yo Filly over her stablemate…
Bush Hill Stud, who stand the handsome Last Winter have welcomed a super colt out of Frosty Friday. The dam, bred by the Late Greg Royden Turner of Roski Stud, imported her own dam who was a half-sister to the late and great KZN sire Kahal. It is also the family of #kznbred export Showmetheway,…
Mike McHardy of Rathmor Stud reports that Declarationofpeace, a War Front half-brother to Gold Cup producing Noble Tune, has landed in South Africa and is currently in quarantine. Declarationofpeace will join Rathmor soon in Nottingham Road where he has received enthusiastic support from the local breeders, with a full book of 80 mares waiting for…
Summerhill Equestrian will be bringing three well bred lots, offered as agent, to the upcoming August Two Year Old Sale later this month. The three two-year-olds on offer were sired by two of South Africa’s most exciting young sires in the form of Act Of War (whose progeny include Triple Tiara winning champion War Of…
Cathy and Jonathan Martin’s Hadlow Stud will be standing the beautifully-bred Summa Cum Laude for the 2021 season. The handsome colt by Vercingetorix (Silvano) out of the star broodmare First Arrival – the dam of two Equus Award winners – suffered a nasal injury which has prevented him from achieving a racing career, however based…
KZN ended the 2020 / 2021 season with Summerhill Stud finishing 3rd on the National Breeders Log (including restricted stakes) and first for KZN, with 16 Black Type wins, R12,810,438 in stakes earned and a winners to runners percentage of 34.7%. Act Of War is our leading sire with two Gr1 winners and a Triple…
Bush Hill Stud’s Flying The Flag, a son of the recently passed world super sire Galileo and a brother to star Gr1 Coolmore-owned sisters, Rhododendron and Magical, produced four winners in four days on three different courses. Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein Roha, out of a Silvano mare who has produced two multiple winners, won for the…
Act Of War’s statistics for his 3yo crop are very impressive. His daughter, War Of Athena, was certainly not disgraced in her performance on Saturday after a tough Triple Tiara and Gr1 winning campaign, finishing a fast 3rd just 0.10 off the eventual winner Zarina in the Gr1 Jonsson Workwear Garden Province Stakes. Act Of…
Trainer Paul Matchett has withdrawn Triple Tiara and Gr1 Woolavington 2000 champion War Of Athena from next month’s Gr1 Vodacom Durban July. Instead she will take on her own sex in the Gr1 Jonnson Workwear Garden Province Stakes on the same afternoon where she has drawn gate one. She is likely to be up against…
KZN enjoyed several winners over the past week, including two for Bush Hill sire Willow Magic and three for Hadlow Stud. Willow Magic, boasting 41% winners to runners for his 3yo crop with an AEPR of over R60 000, saw juvenile Miss Magician win at the 3rd time of asking and having earned a cheque…
A very proud day for KZN as two of the four Gr1 races were won by #kznbreds – Under Your Spell and Battle Force respectively, both bred by Mick Goss’ Summerhill Stud. Mick Goss continues to breed on small scale, with his mares based at Spring Valley Stud. Under Your Spell, a half-sister to Gr3…
Willow Magic – the speediest Gr1 winning son of the mighty Dubawi and already the sire of a Gr2 winner and a Gr1 placed filly from his first crop, has relocated to Warwick and Karin Render’s Bush Hill Stud in Mooi River. The handsome powerfully-built chestnut stallion standing at 16.1hh, boasts impressive statistics – with…
A son of Jet Master and a half-brother to Gr1 winner Liege, Lance produced his first winner Voltron at Turffontein on Sunday for trainer Sean Tarry, and owner Chris van Niekerk. The 2yo filly Voltron won impressively by four lengths over the 1200m trip under Lyle Hewitson. Bred by Summerhill Stud, Lance has had limited…
Star three-year-old filly, #kznbred and Bloodstock South Africa graduate, War Of Athena once again showed her class when she romped home to a facile victory in Saturday’s G1 Woolavington 2000 (2000m) at Hollywoodbets Greyville. In the process, the star three-year-old, who was emulating last season’s Triple Tiara Summer Pudding by landing Woolavington 2000, made it…
Bush Hill Stud’s resident and bred in the purple sire Flying The Flag, enjoyed a debut winner this afternoon at Fairview for trainer Gavin Smith. The three year old gelding named Al Falak sold for R150 000 to Form Bloodstock at the 2019 National Yearling Sale, and descends from one of Bush Hill Stud’s special…
Gavin Smith Racing Team completed another terrific day at the office with a hat-trick at Fairview on Friday. Gavin’s purple patch included an eyecatching victory in the R85 000 WSB Listed East Cape Derby by his budding regional champion 3yo male, Jaeger Moon. On Tuesday Smith marked his century of winners this term, and together with…
Ishnana defeated a field that included Gr1 winner Tempting Fate and useful speedsters Good Rhythm, Winter Smoke [the first three horses across the line all #kznbred], Traces, Speedpoint and Hard To Play amongst them. The Al Miqdaam galloper is raced by Thabo Mhlongo and longstanding KZN Breeder Robert Smith, Ishnana was named after a combination…
The in-form Capetown Noir saw his handsome son, arguably one of the best looking racehorses currently on the track Bohica, finish a flying 2nd to Cape raider Rio Querari on Saturdays Champions Day – which launched the new 4Racing Operator and officially ended the Gauteng season. Rio Querari was impressive and gave Justin Snaith his…
Triple Tiara princess War Of Athena and twice Gr1 2nd placed Running Brave, both bred by Summerhill Stud, have been nominated for the Vodacom Durban July. It is the first nomination for Summerhill Equestrian sire Act Of War, whose own sire Dynasty won the Vodacom Durban July in 2003. The eight-time Gr2 winning daughter of…
It was a tremendous day for KZN Breeding as War Of Athena hit the ball out of the park, winning over the 2450m Gr2 Wilgerbosdrift SA Oaks by two lengths with immense ease. In the process, she also gave her Dynasty sire his first Triple Tiara win and 5th Black Type win for the season…
It wasn’t long ago that #kznbred Takingthepeace took two legs of the Triple Tiara in 2018, only to finish two lengths off the winner over the staying leg of 2450m, but Act Of War’s star Gr1 winning daughter – War Of Athena – carries enough staying power in her pedigree which should see her through…
Capetown Noir filly Under Your Spell maintained her unbeaten record to take the Gr3 Protea Stakes under a star ride from Lyle Hewitson, for the stable of Sean Tarry and owners Sean Tarry Racing (Pty) Ltd and Mrs BMA Lahoud and Messrs M A Currie, C N Francis, A Lahoud, Jarryd Lahoud, Allan F Peters,…
Capetown Noir added more Black Type to his stud record when Jaeger Moon won the his sixth consecutive race in a row to get some well deserved Bold Black Type behind his name, taking the East Cape Guineas Listed. The Gavin Smith trained Jaeger Moon is a half-brother to multiple stayer type Before Noon, who…
Piemonte resident Capetown Noir came very close to securing a Gr2 when Bohica was literally pipped by a whisker on the post in the Senor Santa on the weekend, under jockey S’Manga Khumalo. What has to be one of the most handsome horses racing today, the flashy Bohica is trained by the father-son Azzie team,…
The Wilgerbosdrift SA Triple Tiara crown looks up for the taking after Paul Matchett’s smashing R30 000 sales graduate and #kznbred War Of Athena cruised to a facile victory in Saturday’s R700 000 Wilgerbosdrift Gr1 SA Fillies Classic. With a three-pronged attack at their disposal and nothing near War Of Athena’s ability in the eight-horse…
Paul Peter’s MK’s Pride became the first horse this century to win the R250 000 Ilha Bela Gr2 Hawaii Stakes as a 3yo when he stormed to victory at Turffontein on Saturday to register his maiden stakes success. First run fifty years ago when called the Keith Hepburn Champion Stakes in honour of the Turffontein chairman…
Sean Tarry and Calvin Habib got the Vaal feature quartet – relocated from Turffontein – under way on Saturday when Capetown Noir’s daughter Under Your Spell lived up to her name with a fluent win in the R100 000 Listed Ruffian Stakes. The daughter of Capetown Noir was a facile winner on debut at Turffontein…
Summerhill Equestrian sire Act Of War enjoyed a double at Turffontein on Saturday. The other sire to feature of Summerhill Equestrian was Willow Magic. Bartholdi, a half-brother to the smart and handsome Bohica (Capetown Noir) sold for R180 000 at the 2019 BSA Ready To Run Sale. Trained by Australian-bound Gary Alexander for syndicate Mrs…
Summerhill Stud-bred filly War Of Athena once again met up with her rival Anything Goes, and this time took home the victory in the Gr3 Three Troikas – whilst the courageous Running Brave added yet another Group victory to her record – beating the boys to take home the Gr3 London News Stakes. Another to…
Act Of War enjoyed success yesterday at the Vaal as his 2yo son Rollwiththepunches won on debut over 800m for trainer Roy Magner. The smart colt out of Lady Red sold at the end of July for R160 000 at the National Yearling Sale, and is owned by Messrs M S Cruickshank and S M…
Paul Matchett’s Gr2 Ipi Tombe Challenge winner and #kznbred War Of Athena is among the 14 entries for the World Sports Betting R500 000 Cape Fillies Guineas over 1600m at Kenilworth on Saturday 12 December. Exciting War Of Athena may be racing at Kenilworth next Saturday. She ran out an emphatic 1,75-length winner of the…
The World Sports Betting Summer Cup Day rendered exciting results for #kznbreds, and in particular the feature race as the aptly named Running Brave began her run and was leading, chased the mighty Summer Pudding to the finish, to concede to second place by two lengths but by no means ashamed in defeat. The Brave…
Summerhill Equestrian saw a 1-2 in the weekends Peermont Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup presented by BSA, with Willow Magic’s son MK’s Pride snatching it in a close finish from the Act Of War’s sharp filly, the Gr1 placed War Of Athena. It is also the smashing story for lucky owner Mr M K…
Nottingham Road farm, Rathmor Stud, will be offering seven lots at this year’s Emperors Palace National 2YO Sale, with their draft offering two-year-olds by a host of different stallions. Former Cape Guineas winner Act Of War, whose early runners including rising star War Of Athena, is represented here by a full-sister (Lot 35 pictured above)…
Bush Hill’s smart sire Flying The Flag, a full brother to sensational multiple Gr1 winning fillies at the highest international levels – Rhododendron and Magical – had an impressive winner at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday afternoon. The imposing Flying The Flag gelding bred by Bruce Le Roux, a very high scorer for the National Yearling…
Extraordinary Trainer, Owner and Breeder St John Gray has breathed new life into sire Bezrin, a well travelled stallion between KZN and the Cape for some years until finally settling into Cathy and Jonathan Martin’s Hadlow Stud. The bright bay son of Danzig has had a slew of winners recently, with his winners to runners…
Things are hotting up for Summerhill Equestrian’s Gr1 winning son of Dynasty, who produced a flying winner at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday. The filly named Snatched, owned by the Mauritian syndicate – the Purple Kingdom Syndicate with owners as far as Australian – won for trainer Gareth Van Zyl under a brilliant ride from Anton…
Lee Scribante of Piemonte Stud who have Last Winter, has confirmed that his first mares covered have been confirmed in foal. The impressive son of Western Winter stands at Bush Hill Stud on behalf of Piemonte, for the convenience of farms in Mooi River, Nottingham Road and Rosetta for ease of access for mares. Last…
Bush Hill Stud’s smart young resident sire New Predator (AUS) has his first foals arriving this season, and there is an aura of excitement as the grandson of the world champion Galileo is passing on his substance and quality to his foals. This has also inspired Laurence Wernars to send his Gr1 winning chestnut mare,…
Lee Scribante’s Piemonte Stud have welcomed an eyecatching colt out of Flashing Star, by first season sire Hat Puntano. Born on 18 August, the colt is out of a mare by Muhtafal – his yearling half-sister sold at the National Yearling Sale for R100 000 to Corne Spies. Flashing Star won 3 times and placed…
The Mike and Adam Azzie yard continued their dominance of the Listed Spring Spree Stakes today, registering their third win in this race in the last four runnings, and this time the victor, Bohica, could prove to be something special. He was the first of two impressive winners on the day, the other being the…
Yellow Star’s special Bezrin gelding, who is now nine years old, proved that he still has it when winning his 11th race in his 112th start yesterday at Hollywoodbets Greyville. Gold Circle honoured the gelding with a special blanket when he had has 100th race. Owned by Ashley De Klerk, he was given a great…
St. John Gray and Sherman Brown both rattled off hattricks at Turffontein Inside yesterday and one leg of the double they had together was Dance Class, who has now won five in a row and is threatening to become the next black type earner in a Gray-owned family whose star member was Dance Class’s close…
MIKE and Adam Azzie’s smart weekend winner Bohica’s merit rating has been adjusted from MR99 to MR105, incurring the maximum penalty for a Pinnacle Plate. Azzie has nominated Bohica for the Gr1 Mercury Sprint and said: “His merit rating may be too low. The handicapper offered us a rating of 107, since S’Manga Khumalo rode him…
Act Of War, Willow Magic and Flying The Flag are now well off the mark and getting their fair share of winners over the past week in particular. Act Of War, already an exciting prospect with three winners and two of his fillies already getting Black Type – a recent winner for Paul Matchett, War…
Flying The Flag has had his first winner this afternoon at Fairview for breeder Lee Scribante, owned in partnership with Lee’s brother and bred by the Scribante’s Piemonte Stud. Bought back at the 2019 KZN Yearling Sale for R15 000, the chestnut filly is a half-sister to Black Type and multiple winner Aloysius and placed…
A Group 1 that should have been run two months earlier, a mare who was supposed to be in the breeding shed, an absent trainer, and a jockey making the most of another COVID-19-inspired opportunity. The 2020 Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) was unconventional in many respects, although not in its outcome. Magical was sent off…
The Paul Matchett-trained Summerhill Stud-bred Running Brave clung on to win the KZN Breeders Mile under a fine ride by Muzi Yeni at Hollywoodbets Greyville yesterday and in retrospect she had a lot in her favour despite being sent off at odds of 35/1. The Brave Tin Soldier filly’s class is emphasized by the fact…
Willow Magic produced his second career winner on Wednesday at Hollywoodbets Greyville. Willow Express, a grey colt out of Western Winter mare Delmonica, bred by Stonehill Stud, won third time out for trainer Sean Tarry. He debuted at Kenilworth in the beginning of the year, and had his second start against the now Hong Kong…
Aidan O’Brien believes Magical has improved into her five-year-old season after the mare won her fifth Group 1 race by over four lengths at the Curragh on Sunday. Magical was untroubled when leading throughout at her seasonal reappearance in the Pretty Polly Stakes (2012m) for fillies and mares. The daughter of Galileo strode clear from…
By Frances J. Karon On Sunday, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, and Mrs. John Magnier’s Love became the second consecutive 1000 Guineas winner sired by Coolmore’s big gun Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) — sire of at least one Classic winner from each crop of racing age through 3yos of 2020 — out of a daughter of Pivotal (Polar…
Just As Well by AP Indy has been retired from stud duties, to the farm of Juli Santini – Juli, whose family own Roski Stud, were the bulk shareholders of Just As Well during his stallion career. Affectionately known as JAWS, an abbreviation of his name and in no way a reflection of his lovely…
#kznbred Rabada, a twice Gr1 winning son of Brave Tin Soldier bred by Summerhill Stud, has relocated to Bruce and Delia Le Roux’s Spring Valley Stud in Mooi River. The very handsome stallion has his first foals on the ground, and will be yearlings in August. Initially in training Michael Azzie and ending with Brett…
Yellow Star Stud have reported the passing of Spectrum at 28 years of age. Initially imported and standing at Highlands Stud Farm, he was relocated to KZN in 2013. A stallion always filled with character and vigour and still covering mares with great enthusiasm until last season, his influence as a smashing broodmare sire will…
A multiple Gr1 winning son of Dynasty and his dam an Equus Broodmare Of The Year, Act Of War produced his second winner at Hollywoodbets Scottsville yesterday. Standing at Summerhill Stud, the Summerhill-bred Stella Act – a R30 000 KZN Yearling Sales graduate of 2019 consigned as Agent by Rathmor Stud, won second time out…
Willow Magic’s first winner came yesterday at Turffontein for owners Messrs M A Currie, C N Francis, B G Gardner, Jarryd Lahoud, Allan F Peters, Larry Pogir, Craig Zoghby, Mrs BMA Lahoud & Sean Tarry Racing (Pty) Ltd, trained by Sean Tarry. Dubawi Princess was born, raised and consigned to the the 2019 Emperors Palace…
Bush Hill Stud enjoyed a great double at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Wednesday, and in particular Race 4 with their retired imported stallion King’s Chapel, taking the 1st and 3rd positions. It was also a double in the process for Bush Hill Stud breeder Allan Peters and trainer Gareth Van Zyl, as well as Warren Kennedy…
Summerhill Stud’s Act Of War, whose first crop are two-year-olds this season, was one of the very best sons of former SA Horse Of The Year and champion producing sire Dynasty. He produced his first winner from his first runner at Fairview on Friday when his Piemonte Stud-bred son Daichi made a winning debut over…
Clifton owned mare Valdovino has had plenty to boast about over the past week. Peter and Jenny Blyth of Clifton Stud have advised that the daughter of Al Mufti has produced two winners, at Kenilworth and in Hong Kong respectively in a week. Voice Of Reason won for Gavin Van Zyl and Clive Murphy in…
BINT EL MALAK from the Paul Lafferty stable has been the epitome of this in the competition thus far. The filly sits 15 points clear of her nearest rival, with 2 wins and 2 second place finishes from her four runs. Paul Lafferty’s Summerveld yard are going all out to hang on to their lead…
New Approach, the sire of Bush Hill Stud’s New Predator, came to the fore again last night in Dubai, producing Gr2 winner Magic Lily. New Predator stood his first season at stud in 2019, the first son of New Approach at stud in South Africa. He covered 82 mares in his first season, amongst them…
St John Gray of Graystone Stud, based in KZN, has made a miraculous achievement of 1000 wins this afternoon at the Vaal with his now 11-time winner and #kznbred Dawn Assault. Appropriately, Gavin Lerena, who has ridden several of St John’s top horses to Gr1 success including the likes of 5-time Gr1 winner Dancewiththedevil, was…
A daughter of Crusade bred and owned by the Missing U Syndicate of National Park fame (represented by Rob Knuppe), the diminutive black filly flew home to register her 2nd career win from two race starts – 3 if you include her Barrier Trial. Gavin Van Zyl’s face post race said it all – she…
Warwick and Karin Render of Bush Hill Stud pulled off a 1-2 in the first juvenile meeting of the season, which included the first runner for Summerhill sire Willow Magic. The Mogok colt they bred, Harlington Express, won convincingly whilst their well bred filly by Willow Magic, Magicallee finished 2nd by a whisker – making…
Summerhill was the biggest vendor of the BSA Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale, and averaged R93 875 for 40 Lots sold. Bringing two siblings to Gr1 winners to the sale, its no surprise that the Willow Magic sister to Gr1 winner Hero’s Honour and Gr1 2nd placed Railtrip topped the #kznbreds on sale –…
Aidan O’Brien described Magical as “the ultimate racehorse” after a typically resolute success in the Gr1 Champion Stakes gave the trainer his first success in the race on Saturday. “Every day, she wakes up with a total clean sheet,” O’Brien said. “She accepts everything on the chin and says what do you want me to…
Record-priced lots were like London buses at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Oct. 14. Angus Gold struck a winning bid of 1.05 million guineas ($1,392,683) for a well-related daughter of Dark Angel (Lot 767) who will now carry the famous colours of Hamdan Al Maktoum. An opening offer of 100,000 guineas gave little indication of the record-setting territory…
Capetown Noir is off to a flying start at stud and he had a double on Sunday at Hollywoodbets Scottsville.
Magical (168 points) , a full sister to Bush Hill Stud’s Flying The Flag, has regained top spot in the Cartier Horse Of The Year and Cartier Older Horse categories after securing her second Gr1 of the campaign in the QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on September 14, day one of Irish Champions Weekend.
Magical (4f Galileo – Halfway To Heaven, by Pivotal) a full sister to multiple Gr1 winner Rhododendron and Bush Hill Stud’s sire Flying The Flag, lead home an incredible 1-2-3 for Ballydoyle in Saturday’s Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.
“Making himself at home, Hat Puntano beginning to look like the sensational multiple Group One winner he was at the races.”
-Mick Goss, Summerhill Stud.
Foaling season is in full swing around KZN, with foals arriving by the likes of Flying The Flag, Lance, Rabada, Redoute’s Promise and from the various farms by William Longsword, Pomodoro, Rafeef, Gimmethegreenlight. New Predator is covering his first season this year.
Bush Hill Stud enjoyed a good day at Hollywoodbets Greyville yesterday, as Irish Flame had a double and followed by two seconds from the farm in Mooi River. Fire Faerie, bred by Bush Hill Stud, impressed to fly along and win by 7.5 lengths from Bush Hill’s Bally Blue. The Irish Flame filly, out of…
Bush Hill topped the #kznbreds on Day 1 of the Emperors Palace National 2YO Sale, with an outstanding colt consigned as Lot 122 named Flitterbug. He sold to Jo Muya, and will be on board a flight soon to Kenya.
A Gr1 winner of the Empress Club Stakes, Middlefield Stud’s Byword filly comes up against last season’s reigning horse of the year, Oh Susanna (AUS) in the category of Champion Older Female, distance immaterial.
The national 2018 / 2019 racing season curtain came down yesterday, and appropriately the final race in the country to be run was won by a #kznbred, a Curved Ball half-sister to a Gr2 winner Tales Of Bravery, named Sweet Empress, bred by Bruce Le Roux of Spring Valley Stud. Amongst KZN’s success for the…
New Predator was in fine condition and full of zest when paraded at the Bush Hill Stud stallion day last Friday and so were his colleagues Flying The Flag and Redoute’s Promise.
A stallion who has always struggled to gain support, Just As Well produced a double yesterday at Hollywoodbets Scottsville and had a second with King Julian. The bay stallion with an immaculate Gr1 winning record, pedigree and siblings stands at Spring Valley Stud.
“Those who know Lance will tell you he’s a horse of immaculate physical proportions, beautifully balanced, athletic, clean legged and a fluid, panther-like mover. His foals are like peas-in-a-pod, solidly built, grand movers on perfect limbs with big engines, and like their father, deep, rich bays.”
The recently deceased Crusade produced a very smart double at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday, with Clifton-bred She’s A Crusade finally cracking a win, an Spring Valley’s Lady Abigail destroying the opposition in a flying finish.
A consistent sire with a 45% winners to runners percentage, Crusade has six 2yo’s on offer at the upcoming National 2YO Sale.
As Scott Bros shut their doors at the end of this month, a year after their Dispersal Sale, Mogok has been retired to High Eagle Stud in Camperdown. The star son of Storm Cat and a half-brother to Machiavellian, from the damline of the breeder changer Northern Dancer, Mogok enjoyed enormous success at stud –…
New Predator, who will be on show to breeders on 26 July at Bush Hill Stud, has plenty of recent Black Type news from recent European racing results through his superb chestnut sire, New Approach.
“Flying The Flag, whose own sister Magical recently ran second in the G1 Coral-Eclipse to superstar Enable, is also sire of Hoist High (Lot 234), a filly out of an own sister to the stakes placed Oklahoma Sky. This beautifully bred filly is from the same female line as outstanding sire and broodmare sire Pivotal –damsire of Flying The Flag himself!”
Ten Sovereigns Gr1 July Cup win brings news for KZN’s Hadlow and Piemonte Studs.
Invitation to the Bush Hill Stallion Day to introduce New Predator.
The four-year-old Await The Dawn gelding Morning Catch caught most punters and pundits by surprise when he fought a courageous battle in the closing stages to win the R1-million Non-Black Type KZN Breeders Million Mile at Hollywoodbets Greyville in Durban on Saturday. Out of the Jet Master mare Catch The Wind, the bay gelding under…
Camphoratus was given the green light for a run in the Vodacom Durban July with the scratching of Magnificent Seven due to lameness in a foreleg, and gave an impressive account for herself this morning at the Vodacom Durban July Gallops on the same track that she won the Gr3 Flamboyant in December. Interestingly, Camphoratus…
Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud will be offering a quality, eleven strong draft at this year’s KZN Yearling Sale, with four lots offered as agent. This draft is made up of yearlings by a range of different sires including Capetown Noir, Crusade, Flying The Flag, Ideal World and Mogok. Triple G1 winner Capetown Noir…
They come from racing centres around the country for the unique annual gathering staged by the KwaZulu-Natal Breeders Club in conjunction with Gold Circle for nine exciting races topped by the R1-million KZN Breeders Million Mile, a very popular race confined to horses that are three-year-olds and older that are registered as KwaZulu-Natal bred in…
The well established Mooi River farm, Hadlow Stud, will be offering 15 quality yearlings (three as agent) at next month’s KZN Yearling Sale. The Hadlow draft is made up of lots by the likes of Act Of War, Bezrin, Capetown Noir, Crusade, Elusive Fort, Flying The Flag, Mogok, Noble Tune, Pomodoro, Querari, The Apache and…
Bruce and Delia Le Roux’s Spring Valley Stud is steadily collecting Black Type this season, with Silent Crusade placing a gallant third closely to Oh Susanna in the Tibouchina, and Luna Wish, sold at the 2018 National 2YO Sale, taking the Lady’s Slipper Stakes Listed for fellow breeder and owner Lee Scribante on Friday afternoon…
After it was reported yesterday morning that Crusade was battling a severe bout of colic and being transported to Baker & McVeigh in Summerveld, it was announced last night that he had died after a decision was made to humanely euthanise Crusade whilst under anaesthetic, due to considerable and irreparable damage found to his colon during…
Bush Hill Stud welcome the first son of New Approach to stud in South Africa, with the multiple Graded Stakes winning New Predator joining the ranks. Trained by Johan Janse Van Vuuren during his racing career in South Africa and owned by Laurence Wernars, New Predator is a very handsome and imposing individual who will…
KZN BREEDERS SERIES POINTS AS AT 27 May 2019 2YOS only No. Horse Age Sex MR Trainer Breeder Pre-Nom Points 1 LUNA WISH 2 F 84 Alan Greeff Mr Bruce Le Roux Yes 19 2 ENJOY THE VIEW 2 C 85 Michael Roberts Mr G C Kalil Yes 18 3 ANNATJIE 2 F 78 Ashley…
Koos and Lorraine De Klerk’s Yellow Star Stud will be offering five classy yearlings at the 2019 KZN Yearling Sale. Yellow Star’s draft consists of yearlings by all of Vercingetorix, Bezrin, Willow Magic, The Assayer and Jackson. The latter, a triple G1 winning son of Dynasty, is represented by a colt (Lot 54), whose dam…
Magical, a full sister to Bush Hill Stud’s Flying The Flag, set herself up for a possible trip to Royal Ascot with a dominant display in the Gr1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh.
Hat Puntano joins Summerhill Stud.
Four-year-old top filly Magical, a full sister to Bush Hill Stud’s Flying The Flag will be running in the Gr1 Coronation Cup.
Magical stamped her class on the Coolmore Highland Reel Irish EBF Gr2 Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh.
P R E S S R E L E A S E 2ndMay 2019 AN INNOVATIVE KZN STALLION PACKAGE THAT MAKES SENSE and helps the cash flow Allan Bloodlines – having been appointed to promote and manage a stallion standing at Rathmor Stud – introduce their innovative “Pay When You Sell”terms, removing a…
The magic continued for Summerhill Stud on the 3rd and last day of the National Yearling Sale, with Champion trainer snapping up the Willow Magic’s, including a superb colt from the Eastern Cape’s Birch Bros. Willow Magic sold 9 yearlings overall for an average of R255 000 each, whilst Act Of War sold for R160…
Whispers around the sales yard speak highly of the impressive type of yearling Dubawi Gr1 winner, Willow Magic, is producing and it was evident in the prices in the sales ring when his first yearlings entered the sales ring.
Rathmor Stud’s Frankel, the only colt by the famous English son of Galileo on the National Yearling Sale, was knocked down to Bass Racing for R1,2-million. The colt named Juan Carlos and consigned as Lot 182 is out of a five star pedigree, the dam being a R2,6-million purchase at the CTS Mare Sale….
A Capetown Noir colt trained by Justin Snaith has won very impressively this afternoon at Durbanville, with Kamadeva, a juvenile half-brother to Gr1 winner Love Struck, leading from almost the start to win going away by over 3,5 lengths 0ver 1250m.
“Remarkably, each and every yearling in the Summerhill draft was sired by a G1 winner.”
Bruce and Delia le Roux’s Spring Valley Stud will be offering 11 quality yearlings at this year’s Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale in Germiston.
Flying The Flag’s younger full sister, already a Gr1 winner, added the Gr3 Alleged Stakes this afternoon at Naas to her impressive winners honour roll. She left the colts behind her, with Gr1 Irish St Leger winner Flag Of Honour finishing second, and Gr1 Irish Derby winner Latrobe in third, making easy work of the soft turf to win by over four and a half lengths.
Rob and Michele Pickering’s bred and part owned #kznbred Byword filly, Camphoratus, didn’t buckle from a fight and flew past the much touted Oh Susanna to win from another #kznbred filly by Brave Tin Soldier, Summerhill’s Running Brave who finished a close second. Both fillies cost a combined R80 000 at BSA sales, and both…
Bush Hill Stud enjoyed a phenomenal win by 50/1 Chipofftheoldblock, a son of Redoute’s Promise who give his Redoute’s Choice sire his third individual winner. He won over 1400m from Stock Bridge and African Rock.
Based in the heart of racehorse country in KZN, Piemonte Stud will be offering a very attractive draft at the 2019 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale. Piemonte’s NYS draft consistes of yearlings by such exciting young stallions as Captain Of All, Capetown Noir, Global View, Flying The Flag, Vercingetorix and Wylie Hall –making this not…
A sire that has produced the likes of star fillies Gr2 winner Rosier and Gr3 winner Beach Goddess, he has also produced the speedy Vision To Kill and Gr1 Mauritius Cup winner, Scotsnog.
Warwick and Karin Render’s Bush Hill Stud, the breeders of such G1 winners as Wolf Whistle, Stellite and Zirconeum, will be offering a top-class draft at the 2019 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale this April.
Keith Russon and Ian Todd’s Backworth Stud had a super double at Greyville yesterday, with the smart Var filly Extravargant (a full sister to winner Cuvara) taking it for Mrs Mary Liley, who is enjoying a purple patch of late, and Noble Tune gelding Romanesca winning for trainer Paul Lafferty.
Yellow Star Stud have reported that Warm White Night has lost his struggle with a painful hoof condition in horses, namely Laminitis, and passed away peacefully this morning.
The eight KZN farms represented include half-siblings to Gr1 winner Lady In Black, and Black Types Malak El Moolook, Angel’s Power, King Neptune, Stella Mia, Celestine, Amazing Strike, Exit Here, Eventual Angel, Extradite, Just As I Said, Lala, One Cool Dude, Royal Pleasure and Queen Laurie.
Bize, bred by Moutonshoek won her second start yesterday at Turffontein in the Oaks Trial Listed and is definitely on the list of a horse to following the future. The three year old filly, out of a Goldmark mare is trained by Alec Laird and owned by Mr J Gerber. Bize won by close to two…
Majestic Mambo, by Mambo In Seattle, will have his first start in Dubai this Saturday on 9 March in the Jebel Hatta sponsored by Emirates Airline, time 19h30/13h30. He races in Race 7 over 1800m, drawn 1 and saddle cloth 1.
Splat The Cat’s dam Penthouse Mouse is a half-sister to Gr2 and Gr3 winner The Mouseketeer, by Cataloochee (Al Mufti) as her broodmare sire. Splat The Cat, a beautifully topped and flashy filly sold for R100 000 at the 2017 National Yearling Sale.
Eightfold Path is amongst the leading sires nationally for his winners to runners percentage, an impressive 43,5% and included two winners over the weekend, and three winners in five days.
Wissahickon, a Tapit half-brother to Spring Valley sire Just As Well, had an impressive victory in the £100,000 Gr3 Betway Winter Derby on Polytrack at Lingfield Park on Saturday.
Piemonte-bred Brandina by Capetown Noir has made it two wins from only three starts – her only other place was third by a head in the Listed Tattersalls Summer Juvenile Stakes at Kenilworth.
Scott Bros evergreen Mogok, a sire with consistently good stats in each and every season had a double at Scottsville yesterday, including an impressive debut win with Wave.
Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade has been bringing home a slew of winners lately, and his stats are impressive – with 39% winners to runners overall and currently 75% for his 2yo’s – with 4 runners, 3 winners and 6 places!
Summerhill have a plum sire in Willow Magic, the first Gr1 winning son of Dubawi to stand at stud in South Africa and getting off to a start at a farm that held the National Breeders Title for 9 consecutive years, 10 in total.
A Gr1 winning son of sire producing Dynasty, Summerhill resident sire Act Of War has his first yearlings on offer this year at the Cape Yearling Sale, taking place 17 March.
Flying The Flag, the full brother to Gr1 winners Rhododendron and Magical has his first yearlings on offer at the Cape Yearling Sale and Nationals.
He’s a lovely horse and will probably end up racing in America come the fall and next year. He is a Tapit, so he is really going to suit the surfaces out there. He has run a lovely race today and enjoys this surface.”
#kznbred Grade 1 winner and Equus Champion Sprinter Talktothestars half-brother by Eightfold Path broke his maiden at the Vaal yesterday.
Spring Valley-bred Crusade filly flew home yesterday at Greyville racecourse over 1000m by almost three lengths, giving her delighted owner his first winner. Trained by Michael Roberts and sold at the National Yearling Sale for R140 000, the filly also took home the BSA Maiden Juvenile Plate Bonus of R50 000. It was only her…
Hadlow resident sire The Apache has had two winners in two days, impressive from his first crop with limited numbers.
The Assayer has produced his first winner and looks to have more with Thomas Shelby and Flirty Girty knocking on the door.
Paul Lafferty’s handsome chestnut Buckleberry, bred by Alan and Vera Sutherland of Somerset Stud, impressed to win at Greyville after being unlucky in his three prior starts – finishing in 2nd place in all three previous attempts.
The Ato gelding Chijmes confirmed again that he is no slouch when leading all the way to win the R150 000 Listed Sea Cottage Stakes at Turffontein on Sunday to give claiming apprentice Denis Schwarz his first feature success. Summerhill also produced Gr3 2nd placed Running Brave in the Gr3 Three Troikas.
#kznbred Dawn Assault has snatched the Gr3 London News Stakes from favoured Al Danza and Pietro Mascagni (a R2,3-million yearling). Second to Tilbury Fort in the Gr1 Summer Cup, Dawn Assault is yet another feather in the cap for owner / breeder / trainer St John Gray.
KZN got off on the right foot in 2019 with six winners from nine races carded at Greyville on 1 January.
The Tapit half-brother to Spring Valley sire Just As Well won a Listed race in England yesterday. The chestnut colt named Wissahickon beat home Big Country (High Chapparal) by over two lengths clear.
Noble Tune was very well supported in his first few seasons at stud with full books each year, and the stats show that he has only had 34 of his progeny on the tracks to date and 11 of them are winners, giving Noble Tune a lifetime winners to runners percentage of 32%.
“Similarly, horses with a GBV of 1 have the highest genetic probability of producing elite racehorses and passing on favourable genetic variants to their offspring, when compared with other horses assigned a lower score.”
Triple Gr1 winning sire Capetown Noir is off the mark, a very pleasing start for the Summerhill sire by Western Winter. Brandina, out of Var mare Bedouin from the family of Fair Brutus and Grand Format, won impressively on debut this afternoon in Fairview in one of the first juvenile races of the season. Bred…
Bush Hill Stud report that they have had 11 winners for the season so far and achieved over a million in earnings for their owners, with two wins this month and seven 2nd places (from 16 places in total), which should convert to wins very soon. The honest Kahal gelding Aramouse, a full brother to Gr2 winner…
Love And Peace (FR) finished just a neck off in the Listed Prix Petite Etoile over 1900m at Deauville today.
I Like It and sire Solskjaer share interesting stories. Vaal trainer Steve Moffatt’s three-year-old filly I Like It almost caused the upset of the year when she ran Ghaalla to a short-head in Saturday’s Gr3 Fillies Mile at Turffontein, starting at 66-1. I like It and her sire Solskjaer (IRE) share quite a remarkable story….
Whilst their places will only be confirmed after National Yearling Sales inspections have taken place in January, Rathmor Stud have a very strong draft beginning their sales preparations for the 2019 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale. They include the progeny of Dynasty, Frankel and Noble Tune and from the families of Mastercraftsman and Mastery.
Noble Tune has had seven wins this season, impressively with I’m Free on Sunday, Noble Joshua recently and Paths Of Victory winning on two occasions.
Look at the liftetime statistics of some of KZN’s resident sires, which make for interesting reading.
With 13 winners in South Africa so far for the season, Greenstreet Bloodstock’s Crusade, The Byzantine, won his third start in Mauritius. Consistently placing in South Africa with four places from six starts, the Scott Bros-bred The Byzantine is a half-brother to 4-time winner Moon Of Ragoon. This is the damline of the brilliant Argentine gelding…
Noble Tune’s Curlin half-sister sold for $600 000 at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. The half-sister to Gr1 winner Honor Code, Gr1 Breeders Cup placed Noble Tune, the handsome Declarationofpeace and Stakes horse Lady Serena, dam Serena’s Cat has been an outstanding broodmare and saw her Curlin filly achieve the third-highest price for a…
*We are very sorry to hear of the passing of Chris Gerber of Moutonshoek, who brought in and owned Mambo In Seattle. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends during this difficult time, he is a devastating loss to the racing and breeding industry in South Africa. May he Rest In Peace. “This horse…
Sydney Opera House, by young Galileo sire Australia out of the dam of Gr1 Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling and Golden Sword, finished second by a neck to winner Wonderment at Saint-Cloud over 2000m, in the Gr1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud today
With the well-performed Just As Well’s biggest crop now 2yo’s, Spring Valley Stud’s Bruce Le Roux is hopeful that the market will start sitting up and taking a little more notice of his well-bred son of AP Indy. Just As Well has a lifetime winners to runners percentage of 50%, with only 61 progeny to race from seven crops.
The Spring Valley Stud is home to the blue blooded A P Indy son Just As Well, who is from a family which continues to fire on all cylinders and Just As Well’s impressive pedigree page got a further boost following the running of the Listed Prix du Ranelagh at Chantilly Racecourse on Sunday.
Wendy Whitehead’s big and handsome son of Curved Ball, Hard To Play, flew to a phenomenal victory at Greyville on Sunday in the Pinnacle Stakes, his fifth career win to date and it doesnt look like hes stopping there.
The long awaited R500 000 WSB Grand Series Leg 1 finally got its moment in a rare dash of sunlight at Turffontein on Saturday and produced a classic grandstand finish. Having his first ride since a return from injury, super sub Marco van Rensburg took over from Diego De Gouveia and rode an inspired race to…
The Rising Legend continues to fly the flag for his Spring Valley based sire Eightfold Path, winning a brilliant race at Turffontein this afternoon over 1600m, making it his fourth career win. Geoff Woodruff is excited about his prospects and he is being aimed at the Gr1 Summer Cup for owner LTK Racing & Breeding (Nom:…
“Peach Tree completed a Listed race double for Aidan O’Brien at Navan, as she justified favouritism in the Staffordstown Stud Stakes. Peach Tree is bred on the same cross that produced Flying The Flag, by Galileo out of a Pivotal mare.”
The superbly bred Equus Champion Capetown Noir is strongly represented in the Summerhill Sales draft at the 2018 Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale, which is due to take place at the TBA complex on November 4th.
Bruce Le Roux of Spring Valley Stud always breeds a consistently smart horse, and it seems he has another with impressive debut winner Silent Crusade, out of Silver Fantasy by Silvano.
“However, Flying The Flag’s appeal lies not only in the fact that he is a son of the world’s premier sire, but also that he hails from a tremendously powerful female line.”
As predicted by Rathmor Stud who have been emphasising that the Noble Tune’s will be at their best as 3yo’s and over sprinter-miler distances, he is off to a start with four winners in the new season and a winners to runners percentage of 25% and almost R300 000 earned to date. His stats make…
Mambo in Seattle progeny have earned 24 stakes cheques in their last 30 appearances. This includes 5 winners and 5 2nds! Mambo In Seattle stands at Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud.
Horses like The Apache, with a GRV score of 1, have the greatest genetic potential to become an elite racehorse and are 5.4 times more likely to achieve this than horses assigned a lower GRV score of 4.
Similarly, horses with a GBV of 1 have the highest genetic probability of producing elite racehorses and passing on favourable genetic variants to their offspring, when compared with other horses assigned a lower score.”
With his results to date of 36% winners to runners, coupled with his own outstanding performance on the track, his genetic tests are proving to be very accurate.
“Racing and breeding are filled with opportunities and sadly we all miss many that are available to us. The emphatic third win in row for the very promising Aldo yesterday highlights one of these.” – Warwick Render, Bush Hill Stud
The son of Mogok has a phenomenal race record and earned R17-million in stakes, in a career that saw him race on three continents and win at the highest levels, including the Gr2 Rashidiyah (Dubai), first across the line in the Gr1 Arlington Million (USA) and a winner of the Gr1 Daily News 2000 and Gr1 Champions Cup in South Africa and placed in many more.
Piemonte-bred son of Crusade, Alfeo, has won the award for the Eastern Cape’s Champion 2YO Colt.
Its the 1 September and breeders will begin frantic few months ahead covering their mares today for the 2019 foaling season.
With the opening of breeding season on Saturday, KZN farms are welcoming new mares to the broodmare band this season, including a full sister to African Night Sky and PE Champion Beataboutthebush.
“He won first time out and has paid his way, so when Anton showed me a yearling – Hungry Eyes by Toreador out of Step it Up – I did not hesitate as he oozes class. He is now a two year old and is already more imposing than Misty Dawn or Cumulus, and will join Nathan Kotzen’s yard at Summerveld next month,” said Haswell.
“While I have to admit to some personal sentimentality, it’s every stud man’s ambition to stand a horse of his own breeding. The end of 2018 will mark forty years of our existence at Summerhill; in that time, we’ve bred a number of top class performers as you know, yet I have to say that in Rabada, we’ve at last reached the point of standing a horse that embodies just about everything we as breeders have been trying to produce for the past three hundred years. Apart from being an outstanding racehorse, he is the embodiment of physical perfection, and moves as well as any horse I’ve had the privilege to behold.” – Mick Goss, Summerhill Stud
KZN farm Summerhill Stud were awarded the KZN Racing Awards accolade of Leading Breeder in the province for the season on Friday night at the Greyville Convention Centre. Summerhill finished ahead of Mauritzfontein & Wilgerbosdrift, R400 000 in stakes head, earning a total of R4,786,975 for the season and 29.3% winners to runners – 48…
The former Mike de Kock trained Toreador gelding Misty Birnam registered his first win in the UK when he scored with ease in a Class 5 Handicap over 1400m at Redcar on Saturday. The gelding was raced here by his breeder Anton Procter in partnership with Mike de Kock.
Rathmor sire Linngari has had 10 wins in one month, as well as in South Africa with Elangeni recently at Turffontein over 1400m.
#kznbred Two year olds Carlita, Alfeo and Born A Bully feature in the Eastern Cape Award nominees. The awards take place on Saturday, 1 September.
Kjell Foundation’s spectacular son of Noble Tune was the leading colt of the 35 #kznbreds consigned to the 447 strong National 2YO Sale catalogue, whilst Spring Valley’s athletic Oratorio lead the fillies. Mike Benson of Spurwing Horse Feeds and Kjell Foundation has had a phenomenal strike rate over the years, breeding Graded Stakes Winners and…
57 #kznbred Black Type horses were produced for the 2017 / 2018 season. They sold for an average of R106 929 each at sales, and earned their owners an incredible R554 787 each on the race tracks, including TWO Gr1 winners. Small numbers, Big Results! #buykznbred
KZN featured on Gold Cup Day with #kznbred Spiced Gold producing Gr3 Umkhomazi Stakes winner, Chimichuri Run, whilst Summerhill-bred Railtrip finished second in the Gr1 Thekweni Stakes, with Noble Tune’s Play Another Tune fourth in the Gr1 Premiers Champion Stakes. Another interesting results for Rathmor Stud was Will Pays – a half-brother to Rathmor broodmare…
One of the patterns that gets people excited is inbreeding to great mares. In this respect, I’ve been watching Mambo in Seattle (grandson of Weekend Surprise) with interest, particularly when his first crop delivered the Grade I winning Same Jurisdiction out of a Captain Al mare.
As a small breeding establishment, we are very proud of the recent statistics on the www.nhra.co.za website, which sees us producing over 55% winners for the season. From 27 runners, we have had 20 wins and 57 places, and our horses have earned over R1,5-million for their connections over the past season.
Bush Hill Stud, perennially among KZN’s leading breeders, will, once again, be offering a high class draft at the National Two Year Old Sale this year.
A few current stallion statistics from www.nhra.co.za that make for interesting reading. Name Runners AEPR Wins Wnrs / Rnrs% Places B.T. Winners B.T. Wins Total Stake Standing At Stud Mambo In Seattle (USA) 135 52200 70 32.6 332 3 3 7047025 Clifton Stud Crusade (USA) 88 50073 48 39.8 205 2 3 4406450 Clifton Stud…
Amongst the #kznbred draft are several well related two year olds, including siblings to Gr2 winner The Mouseketeer (Lot 361 from Bush Hill Stud), a half-sister by Capetown Noir to Gr3 winner O Tamara (Lot 87) a full sibling to East Cape champion Kalamain (Lot 331) from Piemonte Stud, and an Eightfold Path sibling to Mark My Card and Markofdistinction, as Lot 380.
Leading sire Mambo in Seattle (USA), a nose second in the Group 1 Travers Stakes and a 7/8 brother to Lemon Drop Kid, has arrived at Clifton Stud in Rosetta. The son of Kingmambo burst onto the scene with Gr1 winning filly Same Jurisdiction and since has had a steady stream of good horses including Mambo…
Two shares in Crusade have become available. The stallion currently has 40% winners to runners and has produced 4 Stakes Winners this season. Please contact 083 789 1631 for further information.
Crusade, who has produced four Stakes Winners this season is relocating to Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud for the 2018 season.
Bush Hill’s imposing and impeccably bred son of Aussie super sire Redoute’s Choice has produced his first winner – the Piemonte-bred Aldo won second time out after placing second on debut.
Photos of yearlings by Just As Well headed to the KZN Yearling Sale.
The KZN Yearling Sale will take place on 5 & 6 July at Sibaya Casino once more, and amongst our quality draft is the last produce from our exceptional broodmare, Gypsy Queen.
Somerset Stud, breeders of such standouts as July winner Teal and champion sprinter Taban, will be offering a pair of high quality fillies at this year’s KZN Yearling Sale.
The Scott Bros 2018 KZN Yearling Sales draft including the progeny of Mogok, Crusade, Miesque’s Approval, Linngari, Eightfold Path, Noble Tune and Redoute’s Promise.
A list of the #kznbreds registered with the KZN Breeders Premium Scheme can be found below. 142 Yearlings from the province of KZN will be represented at Sibaya the week before the running of the Vodacom Durban July, with the auction days scheduled for 5 and 6 July.
The Fort’s draft includes yearlings by successful sires Querari and Toreador, and promising young stallions Crusade, Master Of My Fate, Noble Tune and champion first crop sire What A Winter.
Sunny Bill Du-Tooy will look to emulate his sire Irish Flame on Saturday, by taking the Gr1 Daily News 2000. A dead-ringer for sire in looks, he has won his last three starts on the trot by a combined almost 10 lengths over 1800m – 2000m. Irish Flame stands at Warwick and Karin Renders Bush Hill Stud.
Mooi River farm, and long-time KZN Yearling Sale stalwarts, Yellow Star Sale will be represented by six quality yearlings at the 2018 KZN Yearling Sale, set to take place on the 5th and 6th of July this year.
Crusade is continuing his good form and has produced three winners in four days at Greyville, the Vaal and Turffontein – in particular, Piemonte Stud is having a lot of success with recent Stakes Winner Alfeo, and breeding two of the winners over the past four days – including a half-sister to Gr3 placed Celestina.
KZN is having a great season with two Gr1 winners amongst our Stakes Winners this season, and three of our #kznbreds walked away with Awards – including two out of three Triple Tiara winner, Takingthepeace.
“She’s a Group 1 winner at two three and four, over different trips and different ground and is very straightforward” It was somehow one of the few to get away from world record-holder Aidan O’Brien last year but the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes was added to this year’s Group 1 roll of honour when Rhododendron,…
Larry Wainstein, CEO of The Racing Association and Clyde Basel, Racing Executive of Phumelela, will be hosts in the Aquanaut Room at Turffontein Racecourse on Wednesday 23 May for the RA Highveld Feature Season Awards. Five KZN-breds feature prominently – see the #kznbreds highlighted in BOLD ITALICS below. The nominees: Champion two year old filly: Celtic…
The striking son of AP Indy at Spring Valley Stud, Just As Well, had a massive week with five winners and six places, including a debut win with a 2yo at the Vaal. The lightly supported Just As Well has only produced 53 foals to date since going to stud in 2011 – which amounts to approximately…
Lee and Dino Scribante of Piemonte Stud are having an outstanding season, producing 42.6% winners to runners to date, with 90 places and 2 Black Type Winners this season – all from 54 runners with over R2,1-million in earnings. The Piemonte horses can be easily recognised at the tracks, all sporting Italian names.
St John Gray’s Dawn Assault leads the KZN Breeders Series Log for 3YO’s and up.
The son of Call To Combat is also a Vodacom Durban July entry and leads by 34 points, whilst Yellow Star’s Panza, named after a tank used in World War II, lies in second position, adding pressure with 32 points. Mario Ferriera’s honest Trippi filly, bred by Rathmor Stud has gone fromm leading to third position on the log with 31 points.
KZN had a brilliant day yesterday at Turffontein, kicking it off with a surprise Gr2 win in the SA Fillies Nursery, whilst Takingthepeace did not disgrace herself to finish 4th in her Triple Tiara bid, and Summerhill gained another outstanding Gr1 with son of Await The Dawn, Hero’s Honour.
“How a couple of guys from down the block invested in a filly that hates to lose and is on the brink of winning them a cool couple of million. They are becoming one of the sport stories of the year.”
— Andrew Bon
The first entries for the Vodacom Durban July are in and several KZN-breds are amongst them – including half-siblings, dual Gr1 winner Rabada (from the stable of Brett Crawford) and his grey AP Arrow half-brother, Glider Pilot, as well as Triple Tiara contender, Takingthepeace.
Too Phat To Fly can run on her day and she stormed home to register her first stakes triumph to take her earnings close on R300 000 in the R150 000 Listed Sweet Chestnut Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday. She is by Bezrin who has relocated back to KZN once more and stands at Hadlow Stud. This…
Two KZN-breds impressed outside of South Africa’s borders – the first being Traffic Guard’s son Free Wheeler who won the Ngong Kenya Derby, whilst Curved Ball’s Zimbabwean champ Knuckleball, won yesterdays Zimbabwe Derby Listed.
The third and final day of the National Yearling Sale proved a successful one for Scott Bros, who knocked down a beautiful son of first season son of Galileo, Kingsbarns, to David Ferraris for R400 000. Lot 261 is the first foal out of Trippi mare, Sebonac. The impressive colt will be destined for Hong Kong, and descends from the family of French Gr1 winner, Zambezi Sun.
KZN once again had success yesterday with a half-sister to Gr1 winner Lady In Black from Rathmor, whilst Bezanova’s half-brother sold from Clifton to Chris Gerber, whilst Hadlow sold their outstanding Querari to Mary Slack. Session 1 saw Rathmor Stud sell The Vow, an Oratorio half-sister to charismatic KZN owner Alesh Naidoo for R425 000….
Clifton Stud did KZN proud when their magnificent daughter of first season sire, Soft Falling Rain, was knocked down to Form Bloodstock for R700 000. Rathmor Stud also had a great day, their best with Lot 68 In Auro who sold to Eight Mile Lodge for R500 000, whilst Roski’s eyecatching grey son of Captain Of All sold for R325 000.
Summerhill Stud, who topped South Africa’s Breeders List for ten seasons running, have been enjoying another superb season in 2017-2018. The KZN powerhouse are responsible for breeding this season’s Triple Tiara hope Takingthepeace, as well as this season’s feature race winners Champagne Haze (Tommy Hotspur Handicap) and The Thinker (The Merchants). Once again, Mick Goss…
Prominent KZN farm Spring Valley Stud will be represented by high-class draft of eight at next week’s Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale. The farm, famed for breeding the 2005 July winner Dunford as well as G1 winning siblings Count The Money and Buy And Sell, will be offering four lots outright and another quartet as…
KZN farms Summerview Stud and The Fort will both be represented by a single lot at next week’s Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale. Summerview Stud will be offering a standout daughter (Lot 425) of triple G1 winning Equus Champion Elusive Fort. The latter is an excellent filly sire, with his daughters including G1 winners Siren’s…
G1 WINNERS SIBLINGS HIGHLIGHT SCOTT BROS NATIONAL DRAFT The Scott Bros’ Highdown Stud will be represented by a 13 strong draft at next week’s Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale. Perennially among the country’s leading breeders, the Scott Bros have produced a long string of champions over the years. Among the current high class performers representing…
Rathmor Stud, home of promising young stallion Noble Tune, will be represented by a top class draft at the 2018 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale next week. Rathmor’s draft includes lots by such top class sires as Captain Al, Flower Alley, Ideal World, Oratorio, Visionaire and Silvano, as well as the very promising Vercingetorix. The…
Clifton Stud, breeders of one this season’s top fillies in Covered In Snow, will be represented by nine yearlings at the 2018 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale next month. Crusade, sire of Covered In Snow, has two colts in the draft –Star Effect (Lot 285) is a half-brother to 7 winners headed by Listed Banyana…
“First of the Kjell pair on offer is Praise Singer (Lot 500), a colt by Noble Tune. This bay, a half-brother to 2 winners, is out of a 3 time winning ¾ sister to G1 Premier’s Champion Stakes winner Fez and half-sister to the top class broodmare Salaam. The latter produced the high class, Kjell bred siblings Eastern Greeting, Kwinta and Kalaam.”
The Apache produced his first juvenile winner at Greyville on Sunday for trainer Gavin Van Zyl, who trained The Apache to Gr1 success when the son of Mogok was in South Africa.
Just Cruised In took his first stakes success when winning the R250 000 Gr3 Caradoc Gold Cup over the marathon 2850m at Turffontein on the weekend. Just Cruised In was born and raised at Spring Valley Stud for his breeder, Shadwell Stud.
Spring Valley Stud have eight yearlings on offer at the upcoming Nationals, including progeny by Querari, Oratorio, Philanthropist, Judpot, Crusade, Just As Well, Linngari and Visionaire.
Summerhill’s outstanding draft ahead of the National Yearling Sale, including the first crop of Capetown Noir, Linngari and Visionaire.
After Butchie Boy (Crusade) took the first leg of the Zimbabwean Triple Crown a few weeks ago, Clifton-bred Knuckleball followed up with a win in the Gr3 Zimbabwe 2000 on Saturday. Trained by Penny Fisher and with Ryan Munger in the irons, the three-year-old gelding has now won four and been placed seven times from…
Rathmor Stud’s promising young stallion Noble Tune was represented by a second winner from his first crop when the Gavin Van Zyl trained Play Another Tune won a juvenile plate over 1400m at Greyville on Good Friday.
A fantastic story by Daithi Harvey, and update about Flying The Flag’s second dam, Cassandra Go. Flying The Flag stands at Bush Hill Stud and his first crop will be yearlings in August 2018.
Golden Sword has been purchased by breeder and owner Ted Hughes and relocated to Yellow Star Stud. The stallion has settled in very well to his new home.
Bush Hill Stud have introduced the first foals of Flying The Flag. The superbly-bred handsome chestnut son of Galileo has impressed, with his offspring throwing his presence, substance and quality.
Warwick and Karin Render’s Bush Hill Stud, whose past National Sales graduates include millionaire The Mouseketeer and G1 Woolavington 2000 winner Zirconeum, will be offering another top class draft at April’s Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale. Bush Hill’s nine strong draft (two offered as agent) include lots by such prominent and promising sires as Crusade, Toreador,…
KZN Breeding had a good days racing at Turffontein on Saturday – not only did Covered In Snow take the Bauhinia Listed, but two horses on the day by Summerhill sires secured two of the Non-Black Type features.
Scott Bros sire Crusade had a big weekend, producing two Stakes Winners with the second Listed win for Covered In Snow at Turffontein, and Butchie Boy in Zimbabwe taking the Gr3 Zimbabwean Guineas. Covered In Snow, who recorded her fourth consecutive win on the trot, gave her sire his second Stakes Winner when taking the…
Garlingari is a true group horse and his track record speaks for himself, reports paris-turf.com. The multiple French Group Winner added the Cagnes-sur-Mer Grand Prix du Departement Listed to his impressive record. His sire Linngari has several yearlings for sale at the upcoming CTS and BSA April Yearling Sales.
More Energy produced a strong finishing burst to overhaul favourite Supply and Demand in Saturday’s Listed Parramatta Cup (1900m) at Rosehill. The six-time winning son of More Than Ready is a half-brother to Bush Hill sire, Redoute’s Promise – both out of the superb South African-bred international Gr1 winning racemare, Perfect Promise by Caesour.
The successful partnership of Tinus Gericke and Bruce Le Roux (Chairman of the KZN Breeders Club) have purchased a share in South Africa’s champion sire Dynasty. Next month’s Parade Magazine will feature the story of both Bruce Le Roux and Tinus Gericke, who have purchased amongst the winning fillies A Woman’s Way, Marsala, Hashtagyolo, Love Theme and originally, the great Green Pepper!
Cascada is owned by French couple Xavier and Nathalie Bozo. They have been breeders for over 40 years in France, where they own a stud farm. Xavier is also a bloodstock agent. The small Doug Campbell-trained Visionaire filly Cascada quickened in eye-catching style to win over 1600m at Scottsville on Sunday, but it was just an ordinary Maiden Plate…
Very pleasantly surprised, Mike went on to say “It is a little unexpected as Awesomely Tuned is out of a stout mare, which shows that Noble Tune is adding plenty of speed.”
Photo Call, a twice-Gr1 winning three parts sister to Flying The Flag has produced her first foal by War Front, a filly.
Her dam Theann is a half-sister to Flying The Flag’s triple Gr1 winning dam, Halfway To Heaven, sharing the speedy third dam of Cassandra Go who raced under Michael Roberts. Both Photo Call and Flying The Flag share super sire Galileo.
Miesque’s Approval’s half-brother World Approval followed in his footsteps to win Eclipse Champion Male Turf Horse of the year.
White Dragon, ridden by Leslie Sercombe, clocked 1:38 1/10 to emerge victorious in the 2018 Britam Kenya Guineas Challenge at Ngong Race Course in Nairobi yesterday. White Dragon is by Await The Dawn, bred in partnership by Mr Steve Sturlese and P De Marigny.
In a further effort to further boost the blue-blooded broodmare band for young stallion Noble Tune, Rathmor Stud for the second time headed the buyers list at the CTS Breeding Stock Sale by purchasing Lot 269 Queen Of Spain (IRE) for the sales topping R2,6-million, with a Frankel foal at foot and in foal to first season sire, William Longsword.
In yet another double for Scott Bros sire Crusade, juvenile Lady Abigail won the Maiden Juvenile Plate whilst Greenstreet Bloodstock’s imposing three year old Calladdi impressed to win his first race from four starts.
The Scott Bros’ well performed young stallion Crusade was represented by his first stakes winner when his progressive daughter Covered In Snow captured the Listed Swallow Stakes at Turffontein on Saturday. Bred by the Clifton Stud, and owned by Peter White, the Dianne Stenger trained three-year-old made it three wins from just four outings when…
First yearlings in 2018 for Capetown Noir, the triple Gr1 winning son of Western Winter at Summerhill Stud.
Warwick Render of Bush Hill Stud comments on how fortunate they have been to have a horse of Flying The Flag’s calibre on the farm: “Every day I look at this horse I find it hard to believe just how lucky we are to have him here, had it not been for timing in our favour I doubt very much we would have seen him in this country at all with the recent international performances of his family. The quality of his first crop of foals just emphasises how special he is they are much in the mould of their sire, strong quatered high quality with good size and substance – we are absolutely thrilled.”
Almosthaditall, who made South African breeding news headlines when she sold for a sales topping R2,4-million to Rathmor Stud, is at home in Nottingham Road in foal to Noble Tune, with an outstanding Dynasty colt at foot.
After crossing the line first in an impressive Barrier Trial run, The Bayou’s first race start at Scottsville saw him get left behind at the gates, and he ran courageously to fly up for third place. Its no surprise therefore that he started as favourite at Greyville over 1400m and flew home comfortably by over two lengths.
The first juvenile winner for Eightfold Path came this afternoon at Fairview over 800m in the Maiden Juvenile Plate. Born A Bully, bred by Peter and Jenny Blyth of Clifton Stud is a half-brother to Gr3 winner The Plunderer.
Summerhill have produced more winners this season (nine ahead of the second placed farm according to current nhra stats -3 December) than any other stud in the top 10 breeders log. There is a thought that you can predict what is to come in the future based on the past – if Summerhill’s ten year leading breeder accolades are anything to go by, their draft is to be respected.
Winners for both Crusade and Eightfold Path yesterday at Greyville..
“It is with heavy hearts that we report that Toreador had to be euthanased for humane reasons this morning after a brief but severe ailment. We thank the Vets and staff of Almiray Vet practice and Baker & McVeigh for their help and efforts in fighting for him.”
Scenes from Hadlow Stud at the end of breeding season 2017, including foals by Bezrin, Noble Tune, Redoute’s Promise and Crusade.
From small numbers in our province, KZN had a great Summer Cup race day with a Gr2 Merchants win, followed up by several places in the feature races of the day including a very close second in the Gr2 Dingaans. Summerhill Stud are doing KZN proud once again on the seasonal stats, as the current leading breeders of South Africa.
“He’s a very unassuming little horse,” commented Woodruff. “Nobody considered him for the Derby and the winner went on and ran second in the Durban July. There’s the form line!
This is the first crop of Flying The Flag, a full brother to double Gr1 winner Rhododendron and Gr2 winner Magical.
KZN stallions are leading the way for the first season sires in South Africa so far this season in AEPR and Winners to Runners percentages, and the stats make for interesting reading (from www.nhra.co.za as of 15 November).
Crusade’s three year olds are flying and he produced his first double yesterday at Greyville for trainers Paul Lafferty and Dean Kannemeyer, whilst KZN breeder Mr Shakti Bunwarie enjoyed a double on the day.
“Anyone at the “Big T” on Saturday would’ve had no illusions about the truth of the adage: Big Bear made sure of that with a pulsating performance in the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup, putting to bed two of the nation’s highest rated three year old colts and a Group One winning filly, to deliver its eighth victory in eleven renewals of one of the country’s richest prizes to the KZN nursery, Summerhill.”
THE 2017 Melbourne Cup will be remembered as the day 24-year-old trainer Joseph O’Brien overshadowed his legendary father Aidan O’Brien to create a famous chapter in the race that stops the nation with a full brother to Golden Sword, who was also the youngest horse in the race.
Miesque’s Approval, Flying The Flag, Crusade and Noble Tune were all represented with siblings at the weekend’s Breeders Cup and impressed with their efforts, with two of them winners.
Brave Tin Soldier’s smart daughter and Gr1 winner Brave Mary, second in the Emperors Ready to Run Cup, is headed to quarantine at Kenilworth in advance of a long trip through Mauritius to France in late February. KZN-bred Anna Pavlova made the trip to France at the end of October for Team Valor.
The Melbourne Cup, to be run at Flemington racecourse tomorrow morning (Tuesday), has to date eluded record-breaking trainer Aidan O’Brien. However, KZN Breeders will be hoping his son Joseph wins it this year with Rekindling, who is a full-brother to the Summerhill-based stallion Golden Sword.
Summerhill-bred Big Bear galloped to a scintillating win in Saturday’s R2,5 million CTS Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup at Turffontein, in a 1-2-3 past the winners post for KZN-breds.
In a thrilling finish Declarationofpeace, a War Front half-brother to Rathmor sire Noble Tune, under a rousing ride by jockey Ryan Moore forged to the front in the final strides to shade Sound And Silence and win the $200,000 Qatar Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes, the final stage-setter before nine consecutive Breeders’ Cup championship contests at Del Mar.
Aiden O’Brien’s twice Gr1 winning fillies – Rhododendron and Seventh Heaven – will each be lining up at the Breeders Cup taking place today and tomorrow at Del Mar, part of the biggest team he has ever sent to the Breeders Cup.
Eight Cities, a three year old son of Eightfold Path bred by Scott Bros gave his sire his fourth winner for the season this afternoon at the Vaal Classic track over 1500m.
After Crusade’s flying grey filly’s annhilation of the field at Kenilworth on Tuesday, the son of Mr Greeley followed up with Crusado at Greyville on the turf over 1200m for breeders Bush Hill Stud.
St Helier Stud’s beautiful grey filly Velvet Dawn, who sold for R300 000 at the BSA National Yearling Sale in 2016, won for trainer Paddy Kruyer at Kenilworth yesterday in a phenomenal fashion over 1200m and owner Mrs Rathbone.
The sale, conducted by Jan Naude and Caroline Simpson’s Livestock Auctions, achieved an aggregate of R4 145 000, with an average of R69 083 and a top price of R380 000 paid by Bobby Rajhuhanan for a beautiful Visionaire colt. – Turf Talk
Hadlow Stud have welcomed a special foal late last week, an eyecatching filly by Flying The Flag. What makes her special is her inbreeding to world super-sire Galileo.
Run Rhino Run, bred by the former Aldora Stud in Nottingham Road, shocked the Sunday afternoon punters at Greyville with a 21.25 length win over a marathon 3000m. It was a goosebump moment as the Greyville crowd watched the Silvano corner and cheered Serino home under his hard pulling mount.
After producing two winners last week, Crusade had an eight length debut winner at Flamingo Park this afternoon.
Mustajeeb has his three parts brother Tamayuz at stud in England and the young sire is off to enormous success already – including producing Woodbine Gr1 winner Blond Me. Tamayuz shares his second dam with Mustajeeb, both sons of 5-time Gr1 winner Nayef. Ascot record breaker Mustajeeb will be standing at Bush Hill Stud in 2018 after his export was delayed in the 2017 breeding season.
Crusade has produced two winners in a week, the first with Roski’s Onamission for Mike De Kock at Turffontein, the other with Romantic Crusade at Durbanville yesterday for July winning trainer Candice Bass-Robinson. Glen Kotzen’s debut winning Crusade, Wings Of Honor, followed up with a third place yesterday at the same course.
Another impressive day for KZN-breds at Turffontein yesterday, as five of the 10 races carded went to horses born and raised in Kwa-Zulu Natal, including two for De Kock Crusade filly Onamission and Await The Dawn’s talented daughter, Tammany Hall.
Flying The Flag’s youngest full sister Magical, will be looking to emulate her older full sisters race record after being entered to run in the Gr1 Fillies Mile tomorrow.
Foals from Scott Bros this season by The Apache, Flying The Flag, Crusade and Mogok.
KZN had a cracking day at the Vaal yesterday, with 6 of our stallions winning races with their progeny on the 8 race card – 7 if you include Kahal as a broodmare sire.
Scott Bros are off to a smashing start at Vaal today, producing three winners from the first four races on the card all by their resident sires which include Miesque’s Approval and Mogok, however Crusade’s first time filly impressed in the fourth race on the card.
Darley’s outstanding stallion, Dubawi, second only to Galileo as Europe’s premier sire, has enjoyed yet another magnificent season in 2017, says Sarah Whitelaw for Sporting Post. Dubawi is the sire of Summerhill’s handsome chestnut stallion, the only Gr1 winning horse at stud in the Southern Hemisphere – the Sean Tarry-trained Willow Magic. Willow Magic’s first…
Garlingari, a son of KZN based Linngari, produced another victory in the Qatar Prix Dollar Gr2 over 2000m for Madame Corine Barande Barbe at Chantilly, a race that contributed towards the fame of the great Cirrus Des Aigles.
One of the brightest stars in the Ballydoyle firmament at the start of the year, Flying The Flag’s full sister Rhododendron claimed a hard-fought victory over stablemate Hydrangea, her second Gr1 victory to date for the Irish Champion Juvenile filly.
Two stallions are available for rehoming, Overlord and Atso respectively as they have been retired from Thoroughbred breeding. Both horses produce good looking individuals with exceptional temperaments. Overlord is the sire of many winners including Gr1 winner and Equus Champion Sprinter Talktothestars, whilst Atso has produced winners and many successful horses outside of racing. Please…
Crusade’s twice Gr1 winning Galileo half sister is amongst the entries for the Gr1 Arc De Triomphe, along with the likes of Enable and Cloth Of Stars. Seventh Heaven will be looking to capture her third Gr1 victory – Crusade’s damline has strengthed over the years and their younger Galileo sibling recently placed fourth in…
Its always good news when a stallion has a sibling entered for a Gr1, but to have two full sisters on one of the worlds most exclusive race days is certainly an astounding achievement in itself. Flying The Flag’s Group winning full sisters – Rhododendron and the youngest Magical – will be competing in France on the day of the Arc De Triomphe.
Eightfold Path’s second winner Esploratore came quickly after the first, along with an impressive debut run from Jet Path in the last race. Bred for owner Michael Leaf and trained by Alec Laird, the three year old filly is a half-sister to Michael’s Ready To Run Cup winner, Chilli Con Carne. Peter Gibson, who manages…
The bay son of Linngari and a previous Gr2 winner and Gr1 placed, Garlingari walked away with the Gr3 La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte on the weekend over 2000m in France. Linngari, a son of Indian Ridge, has produced a lifetime winners to runners percentage of an impressive 60% with progeny the world over.
Coming off her impressive Gr2 Debutante win, Flying The Flag’s juvenile full sister by Galileo followed up with a Gr1 second place in the Moyglare Stakes at the Curragh by a short head to Happily. Magical defeated Happily by one and quarter lengths in the Gr2 Debutante.
It is with great disappointment that we have to inform breeders that Mustajeeb will not make it to South Africa for the 2017 covering season.
We have had a long battle with the authorities over EVA vaccine regulations in our import protocols that currently have an impact on the direct import of stallions to South Africa from Europe and USA.
The daughter of Crusade dominated most of the running, with Runaway Rebel looking to be a threat but Wings Of Honor fought doggedly to the finish with plenty of determination.
Brigtnumberten gave his sire Eightfold Path his first winner comfortably this afternoon at Turffontein over 1000m under Gavin Lerena for trainer Roy Magner. Eightfold Path, a French Gr3 and Listed winner by Giant’s Causeway is impeccably-bred out of the 5-time Gr1 winner Divine Proportions, stands at Scott Bros’ Highdown Stud.
Sold for R100 000 at the National 2YO Sale and closely related to Pocket Power and River Jetez, Angel’s Power has earned almost R500 000 in stakes to date with four wins and 24 places.
Former Mike de Kock assistant Nathan Kotzen finally broke the ice in his new role as trainer for his own account when the Toreador colt Cumulus won the third race at Scottsville on Sunday. A relieved looking ‘Natie’ said that the 3yo colt had shown some good work at home, but was surprised to see…
The breeding sheds in the Southern Hemisphere will open tomorrow on the first day of Spring, and will see the KZN Midlands roads filled with horseboxes transporting mares to and fro for covering.
KZN have two new stallions for the upcoming season; the first is Mustajeeb at Bush Hill Stud, and the second is a well bred son of Jet Master at Roy Moodley’s stud farm, named Jayyed.
Toreador’s twice Gr1 winning son Bull Valley secured the honours at last night’s Gold Circle KZN Racing Awards, the Ambiance Stud-bred Bull Valley winning Champion Horse Of The Season.
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Born and raised at Bush Hill Stud for breeders Mr S Fuhri, the handsome Curved Ball colt Bad Attitude won his second start yesterday at Scottsville for trainer Dennis Drier – one of four winners for the conditioner on the day. He beat a field which included the favourite, a Captain Al colt named Drageda….
“A daughter of top-class SA sprinter Noble Heir (Kahal) maintained her unbeaten record from three starts when she beat Blue Diamond Stakes winner Catchy by a head in a thrilling finish to the Gr3 Quezette Stakes run over 1100m at Caulfield on Saturday.”
Flying The Flag’s younger full sister, Magical, followed in her older Gr1 winning full sisters footsteps by winning the Gr2 Debutante in Ireland. Rhododendron won the race in 2016 and was crowned Irish Champion 2YO Filly after an exceptional Gr1 winning season. Aidan O’Brien won the Group 2 Debutante Stakes for the 12th time. Despite…
“It remains a fact though, that too many horses are not making their production costs in the sales ring, and
while the future may hold brighter prospects, the reality is that stallion fees are a material cost of
every horseman’s budget, and we want to play a role in mitigating deficits in the meantime.”
Toreador’s outstanding sprinting son and dual Gr1 winner this season, Bull Valley bred by Ambiance Stud (and trained by Champion Sean Tarry), won the the Cape Breeders Award last night for Champion Sprinter.
Magical, a 2YO sister to Gr1 Fillies’ Mile winner and English 1,000 Guineas & English Oaks placegetter Rhododendron and Bush Hill Stud’s resident international Group winning sire Flying The Flag, got off the mark when scoring by a head in Ireland on Tuesday.
The first foal by Gr1 winning son of Dubawi, Willow Magic, has arrived at Summerhill Stud. Certainly stamped by his impressive chestnut sire, Willow Magic is the only Gr1 winning son of Dubawi at stud in the Southern Hemisphere.
Bruce and Delia Le Roux’s Spring Valley Stud, responsible for producing such high class performers as July winner Dunford and fellow G1 winners Buy And Sell, Count The Money and Indiscreet Fantasy, will be offering 14 lots at this month’s National Two Year Old Sale. Bruce Le Roux ended the 2016/2017 racing season on an impressive 49% winners to runners ratio.
Lady In Black trained by Dennis Drier remains unbeaten after three starts – winning the Gr1 Thekweni over 1600m on the Greyville turf in the same colours carried to multiple Gr1 success for KZN-born Futura.
Lady In Black is out of Mystery Dame by Jet Master – an astute purchase by Rathmor Stud to bolster the book of Noble Tune, Rathmor sold her Dynasty full brother earlier this year for R1,7million at the National Yearling Sale.
The stable of Paul Peter stunned with a winning double from his raiders, including the Arc-En-Ciel bred Fort Ember – a grand-daughter of Kahal who took home the Gr2 Gold Bracelet from favourite Nightingale by two lengths. Other KZN horses to impress was Scott Bros’ Matador Man who ran a phenomenal third in the Gr1 Champions Cup, after not jumping out the stalls on terms and trailing by four or five lengths. His Crusade half-brother Subtropical also caused a stir when the handsome colt won the second race of the day – giving Crusade his seventh winner of the season (six in South Africa).
The National 2YO Sale has produced amongst others KZN-breds Gr1 winner and Equus Champion Sprinter Talktothestars, as well as the recent Million Mile (and Stakes winner), Gr1 aimed Matador Man and international globe-trotting multiple Group Winner The Apache, who was famously purchased for R80 000 and earned in excess of R17 million.
King’s Chapel had a double yesterday at Flamingo Park, including a win with juvenile colt Bishop Of Bombay in the Non Black Type Flamingo Nursery over 1400m.
Bush Hill Stud’s son of Danehill, Toreador, secured his third career Gr1 win at stud, and the second for the handsome Bull Valley of the season in yesterday’s Gr1 Mercury Sprint.
Devil’s Peak, a chestnut juvenile full brother to five time-Gr1 winning Dancewiththedevil, won his second start for breeder / owner/ trainer St John Gray at the Vaal this afternoon. He was born and raised at Cathy and Jonathan Martin’s Hadlow Stud for breeder St John Gray of Graystone Stud.
Purchased off the Klawervlei Farm Sale, the juvenile out of Kahal mare La Mascarata bred by Dr Ian Heyns, sauntered to an easy victory under Craig Zackey over the 1200m comfortably by over a length.
Summerhill Stud hosted a group of international press from leading Thoroughbred publications world wide, including the likes of the Racing Post, Bloodhorse and TDN amongst others last week. The internationally renowned group of journalists from across all corners of the globe, lead by South Africa’s leading international photo journalist Liesl King, were in town for…
Rathmor Stud held their annual stallion day in honour of their special stallion Noble Tune on Sunday at their beautiful farm in Nottingham Road – with 200 guests from across the country, including leading breeders and trainers from the Cape and Johannesburg. An eyecatching setting with an impressive transluscent tent and Noble Tune beanies on…
Another KZN-bred filly, Gr1 Allan Robertson winner Brave Mary has been purchased by Team Valor. The speedy Brave Tin Soldier filly who showed the Allan Robertson field a clean pair of heels is in training with Paul Matchett.
Rathmor Stud’s Noble Tune did KZN proud again and topped the leading sires of the KZN Yearling Sale, selling twenty Lots from various vendors for an aggregate of R1 335 000. The only son of Unbridled’s Song at stud in South Africa has impressed since his arrival and will be on show tomorrow (Sunday) at…
Rathmor Stud once again did KZN proud as they dominated the KZN Yearling Sale on Day 1, topping the sale with an outstanding Duke Of Marmalade filly who sold for R460 000 to Team G Racing. KZN topped the first three places on the top prices of the day – after Rathmor’s Lot 25 Cést…
It was a big day for the Kwazulu-Natal breeders at Greyville on Sunday and particularly for the Scott Bros that bred the winner of the KZN Breeders Million Mile, Matador Man, and the winner of the “Level the Playing Fields” series final, Mark My Card.
Bush Hill Stud’s Redoute’s Promise saw his multiple winning half-brother More Energy (by Fastnet Rock), further boosting the pedigree when he placed second in the Gr3 Qld Tatt’s RC Tattersall’s Cup over 2200m by a neck under South African Jeff Lloyd, from only five starts. View the KZN Yearling Sales draft on offer from Bush Hill, including the first progeny of Redoute’s Promise.
Cathy Martin of Hadlow Stud comments on their draft the KZN Yearling Sale: “This KZN Yearling Sale draft from Hadlow contains some outstanding types. We have a beautiful draft of horses covering all racing types and distances. A number of them are well suited to the KZN Yearling Sale Million race attached to this sale. Our…
The list of KZN-breds registered with the KZN Breeders Premium Scheme, who all qualify for KZN Breeders Race Day and stakes of R2,8million to be won in total.
Dual Gr1 winning son of Western Winter, Warm White Night has joined Yellow Star Stud for the upcoming 2017 breeding season. The handsome stallion who won the Gr1 Gold Medallion as a juvenile and the Gr1 Cape Flying Championship at age 4, relocated from Klawervlei Stud and Koos De Klerk reports that the stallion is settling in well.
After Brad McHardy won the KZN Breeders Golf Day in 2015, his older brother Devon took the Ben Jonsson Floating Trophy and a voucher of R5000 towards the purchase of a KZN-bred yearling at the upcoming Sibaya KZN Yearling Sale. Devon is the son of Mike and Tanya McHardy of Rathmor Stud. The field included…
13 KZN-bred horses will line up for the KZN Breeders Million Mile on Sunday, which will see over R2,8 million in stakes awarded to the connections of KZN-breds on the 9-race card Proudly KZN day.
“Not since perhaps Northern Guest’s glory years at Summerhill have we seen such an interest in a KZN based stallion,” he said. “We’re getting over 20 mares from breeders around the country including Lammerskraal and we’re sending ten of our own away to other stallions.”
The Rathmor purchase and top price of the CTS Mare sale, broodmare named Allmosthaditall (USA) sold as Lot 15, a winner in Ireland with a previous foal by Rock Of Gibraltar in 2015. She is out of a Storm Cat / Mr Prospector mare, from the damline of Gr1 winner Mastery and sire Miswaki and will be a perfect fit for their resident sire, Noble Tune.
Piemonte Stud’s talented juvenile Kahal filly Celestina, leads the KZN Breeders Series Juvenile Log for a stake of R200 000. The Gr3 2nd placed filly is a winner and placed three times from six starts for owner and champion trainer, Sean Tarry. Piemonte Stud bring 17 yearlings to the upcoming KZN Yearling Sale at Sibaya, including…
Bush Hill Stud’s The Poet leads the KZN Breeders Series Log for the seven races on offer for a stake of R200 000 each on KZN Breeders Race Day, taking place 25 June. The handsome son of Brave Tin Soldier, who recently produced Gr1 Allan Robertson winner Brave Mary, is a 3-time winner owned by…
Flying The Flag’s full sister finishes second in the Gr1 Investec Oaks. “That was a real Oaks,” exclaimed Gosden. “The drama before and the flash of lightning as they were loading – it was all a bit Hollywood. I thought they were two magnificent fillies; they fought hard down the straight.”
Summerhill stallion Brave Tin Soldier produced the goods again just a week after his Scottsville Gr1 success with his daughter Brave Mary, when the supremely consistent mare Easy Street streaked to her fourth win on the trot, slamming her field to win the R150 000 Listed Milkwood Stakes at Fairview on Friday.
Three KZN associated horses will be running in the Gr1 Daily News 2000, which was won by Summerhill-bred Rabada last year. The three include Rabada’s grey half-brother Glider Pilot, Varsfontein son of Mogok, Pagoda, and Summerhill-bred Gr3 winning Visionaire colt Africa Rising.
Aidan O’Brien’s bid for a third consecutive Investec Oaks will be led by Rhododendron as she featured among ten declarations for Friday’s Classic at Epsom. Cartier Juvenile Filly of the year and Gr1 winner Rhododendron is a full sister to Flying The Flag at Bush Hill Stud. His first foals are due this year.
Three of our KZN resident sires flew the flag high for our small province with three winners from the four Gr1 races on the day – two of them from from sires Brave Tin Soldier and Toreador, and the other from broodmare sire Spectrum with Sand And Sea, and Just As Well’s handsome son Zodiac Jack placed in the Gr3 Cape Of Good Hope Nursery Stakes, just a length off the winner for breeder Roski Stud.
Bush Hill Stud’s promising young sire and former Horse Of The Year Irish Flame got off the mark as a sire when his son Gizmo thrashed his rivals to break his maiden by three and a quarter lengths on Monday.
It gives Bush Hill Stud great pleasure to announce that we will be standing a new sprinting sire for the 2017 season in MUSTAJEEB, the fastest colt to come out of the famous sire producing Allegretta family of champion sires Galileo, Sea The Stars and King’s Best. In fact every group winning colt to go to stud from the family has become a Gr 1 sire, including MUSTAJEEB’s close relative Tamayuz.
The KZN-bred fillies racing on Saturday’s big Gr1 sprint day at Scottsville include several entries into the Gr1 Allan Robertson, whilst Paul and Beth Gadsby-trained Vision To Kill will contest the Gr1 South African Fillies Sprint.
Invitation to the Noble Tune Stallion Day. A bus service will be on offer, along with lunch and live music.
Piemonte’s Stud’s Celestina pictured as a yearling. Unsold at the National Yearling Sale, the daughter of Kahal out of Sully’s Landing is already Gr3 2nd placed from two starts from the stable of Sean Tarry. KZN BREEDERS SERIES POINTS AS AT 22 MAY 2017 -2YO LOG No. Horse Age Sex Trainer Breeder Points 1 CELESTINA…
The well related Firth Of Tay proved the star attraction at Thursday’s Cape Mare Sale, held for a first time at the Mistico Equestrian Centre. The full sister to Kildonan was consigned by Wilgerbosdrift, the mare was knocked down to John Kramer for R300 000.
The Summerhill Mare & Weanling Sale took place on Sunday in icy conditions, which saw 184 horses catalogued, amongst them the dams of Rabada, Royal Pleasure, Love Struck, Intergalactic, Witchcraft and multiple Black Type producer, Surfer’s Eye.
Starting off in KZN and later purchased by Mauritzfontein, the Gr1 winning young sire Byword, whose half-brother Finche made a stunning winning debut at Deauville on Sunday, was represented by his first winner when first crop son Talk Wrench won over 1000m on Monday at Flamingo Park.
The War Front Coolmore-owned half-brother to Noble Tune and Honor Code is making waves in Ireland after a six length victory for trainer Aiden O’Brien at Navan in Ireland. Save The Date for Noble Tune’s Stallion Day 2 July at Rathmor Stud.
Witchcraft, Africa Rising, Pagoda, The Elmo Effect and Bold Viking are amongst the KZN-bred or by KZN Sire entries for the Vodacom Durban July.
Considering the minority of the numbers of horses produced in KZN compared to the neighbouring provinces, two of them – one a KZN-bred, the other by a KZN sire, came very close to securing Gr1 victories but finished close second each. There were plenty of results over the weekend which saw KZN-breds place closely in…
Seventh Heaven, a dual Gr1 Oaks winner added to her record by winning the Gr2 Dunaden Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. The filly is a Galileo half-sister to KZN sire Crusade.
Rathmor Stud did KZN very proud with exceptional results over the three days of the National Yearling Sale with their registered KZN-breds – overall the National Yearling Sale surprised many with extraordinary results for a supressed economic climate.
St Helier Stud has a successful day with two Lots sold – the first an outstanding What A Winter colt for R375 000 and Piemonte an imposing Noble Tune colt for R350 000.
Mike and Tanya McHardy’s Rathmor Stud dominated the first day of the National Yearling Sale for the KZN Breeders, achieving outstanding results from four horses sold for an average of over R740 000 each, whilst history was also made when a yearling bred by Nothemba Mlonzi was sold at the Nationals for R100 000 from her Mwetwood Stud.
110 KZN-breds will be represented at the National Yearling Sale this year, including the half-siblings to two Gr1 winners – Wild One and Talktothestars. Stakes Winners by KZN Sires or KZN-Bred horses include
Africa Rising, Champagne Haze, The Elmo Effect, Bold Viking, Daring Diva, Anna Pavlova, Patchit Up Baby, Dawn Calling, Matador Man, Alareef, London Call, Romany Prince, Scandal, Intergalactic, Bezanova, Rikitikitana, Beach Goddess, Chilli Con Carne, Angels Power, O Tamara, Talktothestars, Rabada, No Worries and Celestina.
With Varsfontein-bred Pagoda (an entry into the Vodacom Durban July) leading the way for Mogok colts this year, Mogok filly Fortissimus won the East Cape Oaks (Listed) over 2000m on Friday at Fairview for the Justin Snaith racing stable. Owned by Mr EA Braun, the three year old filly won by one and half lengths under…
Bruce le Roux of Spring Valley Stud is currently sitting on an outstanding percentage of 48% winners to runners – with 34 winners from 51 runners for the current season.
London Call gave the crowds at Scottsville a jaw dropping performance in the Pinnacle Stakes at Scottsville on Sunday which had a quality field of competitors that could have equalled a Group One race.
Await The Dawn, a prematurely deceased son of Giant’s Causeway that stood at Summerhill Stud, grabbed his first winner early in the season at Kenilworth with an impressive debut win for trainer Joey Ramsden, and owners Mayfair Speculators (Pty) Ltd (Nom: Mr D L Brugman), Miss S Grentell and breeders Mrs Vanashree and Mr Anant Singh.
Tony Rivalland’s courageous Curved Ball filly, Je Suis Silver, broke the Class record at Greyville on Friday night in a time of 57,94 seconds.
Most of the country’s top middle distance gallopers are among the first entries for the Gr1 R4,25 million Vodacom Durban July to be run over 2200m at Greyville on Saturday, 1 July 2017. Eight of the entries are either KZN-bred or by KZN resident stallions.
Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade has had his third winner at the Vaal this afternoon, with Roski-bred Onamission, a juvenile filly out of Gr2 winner Tempted, finding victory over 1200m by almost two lengths.
Scott Bros’ exciting young stallion Crusade was represented by his second first crop winner when his son Brave Endeavour got off the mark on Wednesday afternoon. His 2017 Nationals crop includes siblings to Gr3 placed Celestina, Wild One, Matador Man and impressive debut winner, Cat ‘N Mouse.
International news related to KZN is that Arrogate, who share sire Unbridled’s Song with Noble Tune, amazed the racing world with an astounding last to first Gr1 Dubai World Cup victory whilst Crusade’s half sister, Seventh Heaven, gave a courageous account of herself to finish second in the Gr1 Dubai Sheema Classic behind Jack Hobbs.
KZN-breds and horses by KZN sires won four of the nine race card at Turffontein yesterday, including three of the days features – the Oaks Trial Listed, the Derby Trial and the Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes, whilst Rabada’s grey half-brother won over 2000m on debut in the last race.
KZN produces less than 20% of the racing stock annually in South Africa and yesterday’s performances at Turffontein are not to be ignored.
Both Seventh Heaven and Arrogate are of particular interest to KZN Breeding, with Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade’s half-sister by Galileo, Seventh Heaven, contesting the Gr1 Longines Dubai Sheema Classic whilst Arrogate shares a sire with Rathmor Stud’s Noble Tune, and is favourite to win the Gr1 Dubai World Cup.
Amy Bronkhorst’s Comanche Brave, a Summerhill Stud-bred son of Kahal out of Alami mare Aces Wild, took home the Champions Cup (Listed) at Borrowdale yesterday under Callan Murray.
Bred by Taryn Liebenburg and Annet Becker of Summerhill Stud, The Elmo Effect is a son of Admire Main out of the one-time winning Northern Guest mare, Dream Starling. This is the third Bold Black Type horse for the dam, after she produced Gr2 Gauteng Guineas winner, Heaps Of Fun and Gr3 placed Cookie Monster. Her other daughter Red Spirit in turn has produced two winners – including Gr3 placed Newton Power for Bush Hill Stud.
Yellow Star’s Kildonan is in form with 33% winners to runners currently, excluding his winner last night for the stable of Alyson Wright. He also had a superb winner for the yard of Paul and Beth Gadsby on Wednesday at Scottsville with Clifton-bred Kildonan Lad whilst Vision To Kill is an exciting prospect for Champions Season….
After King Of Kings death in 2015 due to heart failure at The Fort Stud, the son of Sadlers Wells may be gone but not forgotten after his as yet unbeaten juvenile daughter, Daring Diva, sprinted to almost a three length victory in the Ruffian Stakes Listed over 1000m and downed Kissable in the process.
With currently only 40 racehorses on the track in total and in his oldest crop being four year olds (only 16 registered horses in his first year), Just As Well has maintained incredible winners to runners percentages since his juveniles hit the tracks two years ago – for most of last year at over 40%.
A flashy bay colt was the news of the day at Scottsville last year, as the white faced juvenile Ishnana blazed to a debut victory not only for himself, but for his first time owner Mr Thabo Mhlongo.
Irwin continued, “The filly was bought to race a few more times in South Africa, with the Gauteng Fillies Guineas first and probably the Gr1 Empress Club on April 15 next. The Gr1 SA Fillies Classic is possible, but I think she is a miler and will have to show us she wants to run further. We plan to send her to Europe by way of Mauritius. We will decide in the fall if we want to give her to Mike de Kock to go to Dubai, or leave her in France to be trained by Andre Fabre.”
The first son of the great Redoute’s Choice to retire to stud in South Africa, Bush Hill Stud’s Redoute’s Promise has his first crop of yearlings on offer at sales this year. News in yesterday is that his promising Hard Spun half-brother, Hard Promise (AUS), placed a close second in the Gr3 Ladbrokes Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield over 1200m on Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Stakes day.
In just his third start after placing twice in each previously, Tapit colt Morse Code, a half-brother to Noble Tune and Honor Code shed his maiden tag at Gulfstream Park by a neck in the same familiar green and yellow colours that his AP Indy half-brother carried to multiple Gr1 success.
A few foals from Clifton Stud in Rosetta, photographed 18 January. Peter and Jenny Blyth have a superb crop of foals on the ground by the countries leading sires and exciting young freshman sires such as Flower Alley, Soft Falling Rain, Jackson, Master Of My Fate, Noble Tune, Toreador, Oratorio, What A Winter and Crusade…
Our province of KZN produces less than 1100 of 5000 foals nationally – based on those stats, our KZN horses won five races yesterday at Turffontein including a Gr3 and filling second and third too. Matador Man (Scott Bros) and Chilli Con Carne (Just As Well) placed in the Gr3 Tony Ruffel Stakes, whilst Rathmor’s Romany Prince finished third in the Wolf Power 1600 Listed. Six of the eight races carded at Greyville just the night before were won by KZN Breeders – and it was a double for Bush Hill Stud sire King’s Chapel who had Cup King and Mr McSteamy to both win in a gutsy fashion, whilst Roski produced a five length maiden winner at Kenilworth yesterday.
A horse with an unusal facial marking of a blaze that started halfway down his nose, his 16hh size was misleading – a compact stallion with mighty hindquarters which he passed onto his progeny, you could easily mistake him for being on the small side until he stood next to you – he was striking and imposing individual who threw good looking and correct foals with plenty of bone and substance, and eye catching toplines.
Chinese businessman Mr Guo of the Brigt Shipping Company is in South Africa with his family, and currently on a tour with Peter Gibson of Racing South Africa to the farms in KZN to visit his mares, foals, yearlings and stallion Eightfold Path.
Two of KZN’s exciting young stallion prospects were further boosted over the weekend with news that Flying The Flag’s full sister Rhododendron had taken the award for Ireland’s Champion 2YO Filly, whilst Arrogate, who shares a sire with Noble Tune in Unbridled’s Song, produced an earth shattering win in the Pegasus $12 million dollar race by over four lengths.
Spring Valley-bred London Call, a brilliant son of Kahal out of one of Bruce Le Roux’s top former mares Fancy Fantasy, defeated a quality field of sprinters in the Marula Sprint yesterday at Scottsville, including the likes of Gr1 placed Barbosa and recent Gr3 winner Rikitikitana.
Noble Tune’s dual Gr1 winning half-brother Honor Code, from the last crop of the great AP Indy, has had his first foal born at Cobra Farm which Lane’s End announced early this morning. Honor Code’s service fee for 2016 and 2017 has been set at $40 000. Noble Tune’s first yearlings go under the hammer this year.
Miss Millionaire galloped home to an easy victory for her sire Crusade, winning her debut impressively by over a length from trainer Belinda Impey and owners Messrs P Gounden, J Jacobs & E H Seedat. The filly, bred by Bruce Le Roux of Spring Valley Stud, sold for just R70 000 at the 2016 KZN Yearling…
Spring Valley sire Just As Well has only 40 runners in total on the tracks in South Africa, from juveniles to four year olds and December saw him achieve five winners and 10 places, taking his winners to runners percentage to an impressive 30%.
Rikitikitana, a son of Toreador owned in partnership by Dr K G Bakos & Mr G M Bakos & Mr Clyde Basel and trained by Sean Tarry, swooped past Celtic Captain to win the Gr3 Christmas Handicap at Greyville under Lyle Hewitson.
Bush Hill Stud’s Curved Ball produced his sixth winner this afternoon at the Vaal for breeders Cathy and Jonathan Martin of Hadlow Stud – who also bred the first ever winner by Curved Ball, a juvenile filly in the previous season named Fast And Rocking.
Scandal provided her dam Lewinsky’s Lover with the rare feat of producing two speedsters that have set blistering fast records on two tracks in South Africa – the aptly named half siblings include the imposing son of Miesque’s Approval, Humidor who shattered Kildonan’s Gr1 record at Scottsville.
The family owned Roski Stud, a product of the passion of the late and great Greg Royden-Turner, had an epic weekend country wide as the boutique stud produced three wins and two places since Friday evening – from Greyville, Turffontein and Scottsville proving Greg’s theory of quality over quantity, when it comes to breeding Thoroughbreds.
The Scott Bros’ had great weekend with Matador Man winning the Secretariat Stakes Listed at Turffontein on Saturday, whilst their gelding by The Sheik – Road To Dubai – won the Borrowdale Cup Sprint Listed over 1200m. It was a KZN-bred dominated race, with the first four crossing the line all produced locally.
KZN was well represented at the recent CTS Ready To Run Sale, with the top priced colt by Visionaire coming from Summerhill Stud and the top priced KZN-bred Var filly originally bred by Backworth Stud.
KZN’s recently crowned 2016 Stallion Of The Year Kahal, saw his dual Gr1 placed daughter, an impeccably Summerhill-bred grand-daughter of the great Galileo, secure her first much deserved first Graded Stakes win in the Gr2 Ipi Tombe Challenge.
A R150 000 National Two Year Old Sale graduate, Clifton-bred Bezanova has won six races with 10 places from 34 starts and took his career bank to R1 966 775.
Kildonan’s daughter Beach Goddess won the R150 000 Listed Laisserfaire Stakes yesterday at Kenilworth for trainer Brett Crawford.
“That’s a very very hard pedigree to get into,” said Baccari, who said the partnership could race the colt or resell him. “I happened to see the colt on the farm ahead of time so I had the ability to see what I was going to get into. He’s just a very special horse. Very hard to find that kind of pedigree with that kind of sire power.”
Crusade’s dual Gr1 winning Galileo half-sister, Seventh Heaven, placed fourth in the Gr1 Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Turf, whilst Flying The Flag’s full sister by Galileo, Rhododendron has been nominated for a Cartier Award in the Champion 2YO Filly category. Under Ryan Moore, Seventh Heaven finished one and a quarter lengths in fourth place…
KZN-breds had significant success at Turffontein yesterday, with sons of Admire Main, Just As Well and Toreador all winning on the big day.
“This was incredible today,” said Smith, who picked up his 25th Breeders’ Cup win. “You just don’t see things like this from a young 3-year-old. He literally was prancing after the race was over. … He’s so talented. He’s got amazing stamina. He doesn’t quit. He could have gone around again. He’s incredible.”
Our KZN sires have strong connections with the Breeders Cup this year, amongst them stallions Crusade (Seventh Heaven), Noble Tune (Made You Look) and Flying The Flag (Photo Call).
The Galileo juvenile half-brother to Scott Bros’ French Gr3 winner Eightfold Path, named Diodorus, ran a vastly improved race yesterday over the Leopardstown 1800m trip with blinkers on for the first time, to run on strongly and finish second behind Godolphin’s Dubai Sand.
A beautifully-bred Crusade colt sold for R700 000 at the recent CTS Ready To Run Sale in Durbanville, consigned by Beaumont Stud and purchased by Mayfair Speculators.
After the news filtered through of Flying The Flag’s full sister Rhododendron’s Gr1 win in the Dubai Fillies Mile, Photo Call (also by Galileo out of Theann – a daughter of Flying The Flag’s second dam Cassandra Go) won the Gr1 First Lady in the United States from Tepin by almost three lengths
The full sister to Bush Hill Stud’s new stallion prospect Flying The Flag, Rhododendron has beaten Hydrangea impressively between three to four lengths in the Gr1 Dubai Fillies Mile at Newmarket this afternoon in firm going, at a course where speed is a necessity to win.
Unbridled’s Song, the sire of Noble Tune, produced another Gr1 winner over the weekend with Forever Unbridled in the Gr1 Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park. The filly won on the dirt in muddy going by two and a quarter lengths from Tiger Ride (by Candy Ride) and Penwith (Bernardini) over nine furlongs. The time for…
World Champion sire Galileo achieved the remarkable in the Arc this year, siring the first three past the post of the great historical French race. Galileo is the sire of The Assayer (Yellow Star Stud) and Flying The Flag (Bush Hill Stud) standing in KZN.
The sire of Summerhill’s new stallion prospect, Gr1 winner Willow Magic, has made news at Goffs Orby Sale when a Dubawi bay colt sold for €1.4 Million off the Wildenstein Stables Ltd Dispersal as Lot 472.
Warwick and Karin Render’s Bush Hill Stud have had four winners in seven days at Greyville, the Vaal and Scottsville racecourses by resident sires King’s Chapel, Kahal (sadly deceased) and Curved Ball.
Emmaus, a juvenile colt by Invincible Spirit impressed on debut, out of a three-part sister to Bush Hill Stud’s exciting young sire Flying The Flag.
Lane’s End, who are standing Noble Tune’s dual Gr1 winning half brother Honor Code at stud for his first season, have purchased Lot 538 from Denali Stud at the September Keeneland Yearling Sale. The colt is by Speightstown out of a three part-sister to Noble Tune named Night And Day – she recently produced Gr2 With Anticipation winner, Made You Look (by More Than Ready), her first foal to race from two produced.
Exciting news emerged yesterday as Galileo and Fastnet Rock each produced Gr1 winners yesterday in the UK, including a Gr1 place for Flying The Flag’s full sister, Rhododendrum. Galileo is the sire Bush Hill Stud’s Flying The Flag whilst Fastnet Rock is the sire of Curved Ball.
Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud and their sire AP Answer took home several awards for Leading Breeder, Leading Breeder on A.E.I with 8 or more runners and Champion Sire for their resident son of AP Indy, AP Answer – as well as Spey Bridge Champion Three Year Old Filly, Duffi’s Call at the recent Zimbabwe Racing and Breeding Awards.
Miesque’s Approval’s four year old son Angel’s Power, finished second in the Gr3 Spring Spree Stakes on Saturday at Turffontein, just over a length off from Kangeroo Jack. Angel’s Power, previously trained by Brian Wiid and had a name change after his first start (formerly Corpus Christi), is now in training with Mike Azzie and owned by Dr RJP Maponya and Mr EG Bouwer.
Summerhill Stud and breeders around KZN are welcoming the first foal crop by triple Gr1 winner, Capetown Noir.
The Apache covered his first two mares on Thursday morning at Scott Bros, officially the start of the breeding season and his third at stud, first in KZN.
A full sister retained by Scott Bros to their new stallion acquisition and home-bred The Apache, Bold Pocahontas has foaled a Crusade filly last night at Highdown Stud.
Spring Valley Stud’s sire Just As Well, who has been consistent and at one point had an impressive runners to winners percentage of 53%, has produced a champion juvenile colt in Kenya – a horse bred by Jill Fox of The Fort Stud in partnership with Out Of Africa Stud. The good looking bay colt…
The two year old full sister to Flying The Flag showed plenty of speed to win the Gr2 Debutante courageously over 1400m. Flying The Flag has attracted a top class book of mares – including Look Sharp – the dam of Gr2 winning The Mouseketeer, Plutonium (the dam of Orion Quest and King Neptune), a Gr2 and Gr3 winning full sister to sire Biarritz.
The daughter of Galileo and a half-sister to Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade, landed the Irish Oaks on her last start and added another Group One to her haul, producing a powerful surge to overhaul Queen’s Trust at the furlong pole and stretch clear for a commanding two-and-three-quarter lengths victory.
The annual Bush Hill Stallion Day took place on the Friday prior to the Gold Cup race day, and once again it was a magnificent day with over 200 guests present and it was fantastic to have so many visitors from the Cape especially – including Susan Rowett, Mike De Kock, Jehan Malherbe and Jessica Slack.
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day in pictures, with Flying The Flag, Curved Ball, Irish Flame, King’s Chapel, Redoute’s Promise and Toreador all presented for show.
R100 000 Breeders Incentive for Flying The Flag: The breeder of the first graded stakes winning progeny of Flying The Flag will receive a bonus payment of R100 000. The international Group winning son of Galileo stands for just R20 000 this season.
Mick Goss and the team at Summerhill Stud have achieved an outstanding accolade of National Leading Breeder for the 10th time – nine of those consecutively, after the final curtain came down on the eLan Gold Cup race day, yesterday at Greyville.
Scott Bros’ multiple Gr1 winner both locally and internationally, has returned to his place of birth to continue his career at stud.
The outstanding racing son of Mogok was the pride of South Africa when he crossed the line first in the Gr1 Arlington Million in the USA for trainer Mike De Kock, only to have the race result changed after interference.
The Apache is a culmination of the Scott Bros’ dynasty of stallions and mares carefully mated, and he has certainly reflected his breeders and his champion lineage with his outstanding achievements.
Mike De Kock, the trainer of Irish Gr2 winner Flying The Flag, will be attending the Bush Hill Stallion Day to present his thoughts to the guests present on the beautifully-bred son of Galileo, a horse that Mike holds in high regard.
Noble Tune has let down into a mouth watering individual, quite reminiscent of his broodmare sire Storm Cat and ‘wowed’ the audience as he danced about the parade ring, enjoying the attention and giving an impressive display of his athleticism and balance.
The Gr1 Darley Irish Oaks went to Seamie Heffernan-ridden stablemate Seventh Heaven, a half-sister to Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade who stands at Scott Bros’ Highdown Stud.
Currently the highest rated racehorse in South Africa, Talktothestars carries an impressive MR 121 – Futura lies second with 117 and Trip Tease 112. Unwanted at the National 2YO Sale, Talktothestars starts from a 15 draw carrying 60kgs under jockey Gavin Lerena, for owner trainer Coenie De Beer.
Three of KZN’s young sires have their juvenile siblings making starts in Group races in the upcoming months – among them Crusade, Eightfold Path and Flying The Flag. Interestingly, all three siblings are by super-sire Galileo, all in training with Aiden O’ Brien and all owned in partnership by Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith.
World Approval has been knocking on the door at the top level and broke through July 3 for his first Grade 1 win in the $300,000 United Nations Stakes at Monmouth Park. World Approval is a half-brother to Gr1 Breeders Cup winner Miesque’s Approval standing at Scott Bros.
KZN’s Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner, Crusade lead the first season sires list by aggregate at the Sibaya KZN Yearling Sale, whilst Toreador topped the second day of the both KZN’s top priced colt and filly with prices of R280 000 and R230 000.
The Vodacom Durban July field has been announced, and sees KZN Breeders Million Mile entrant Rabada lining up for Africa’s most exclusive race for a stake of R4,25 million. The only other horse to attempt this double previously was Gr1 winner, Love Struck.
The final field for the exclusively KZN-bred field galloping for the stake of R1million has been announced, and includes recent Gr1 Daily News 2000 winner, Rabada. The KZN Breeders Million Mile is now in its fourth year, previously known as the KZN Breeders 1600 Listed.
Born and bred at our current National Champion Breeders Summerhill Stud, a beautifully-bred daughter of Kahal out of a Kingmambo mare stormed to victory in the Gr3 Track And Ball Oaks over 2400m at Scottsville today, and secured her future in the breeding paddocks.
“He’s the only Group One-winning son of the world’s number one stallion of 2015 in continental Africa. And the fellows up at the Summerhill stallion barn know that with his cosmopolitan, outcross pedigree, combining the pre-potency of Dubawi with a tough-as-teak Australian “mum”, it makes a lot of sense to place Willow Magic in the front row of their shop window for the forthcoming season.”
A son of Overlord carrying the top weight of 60kgs in the Gr1 Tsogo Sun Sprint made victory look easy in the exclusive sprinting race at Scottsville over 1200m, with the aptly named Talktothestars getting his first Gr1 victory for his owner and trainer, Coenie De Beer.
One of Rathmor Stud’s resident broodmares is African Love, is a half-sister to the dam of Bounding named Believe ‘n Succeed. Bounding sold at Magic Millions for $1,9million to Stonestreet Farm as a broodmare acquisition.
Summerhill-bred Rabada silenced stamina doubts on Saturday after seeing out the 2000m distance, to capture his second career Gr1 win in the Daily News 2000 for recent Triple Crown trainer Mike Azzie and owners Mr and Mrs Markus and Ingrid Jooste.
Six wins on the trot, eight victories and two runners-up in his first ten starts would commend any young thoroughbred of his origins for a stud career. But, that’s only half the Act Of War story. A towering, athletic beast of princely proportions, not even the casual racegoer could’ve mistaken his presence and the elegance of his action for anything but the belongings of a comet in the making.
Year in and year out, Toreador not only performs in the sales ring but regularly produces good horses each season, and two have made themselves known from the past weekend.
Summerhill’s striking son of High Chapparal, Golden Sword, has got off to a smart start with his daughter, Summerhill-bred Belle Rose winning her third career start for trainer Mike De Kock, who trained her sire in Dubai.
Scott Bros’ large imposing Gr1 Breeders Cup winner, Miesque’s Approval, is currently a stand out on the National 2YO Sire’s list, achieving an impressive statistic of 57.1% winners to runners (as per nhra.co.za 15 May).
Scott Bros’ young sire Crusade, saw his Galileo half-sister Seventh Heaven out battle Architecture to win the Betfred Mobile Oaks Trial Fillies’ Stakes. The Aidan O’Brien-trained winner was sent off the 7-4 favourite for the Listed heat but she made hard work of winning in the hands of Ryan Moore.
The first crops from Scott Bros’ respective stallions’ Crusade and Eightfold Path were well received at the recent National Yearling Sale, whilst Irish Flame and Await The Dawn sold one individual each for over R100 000.
Summerhill-bred Arch Rival provided his sire AP Arrow with his first Graded Stakes win, taking the Gr2 Gold Bowl over 3200m.
The top priced colt from KZN on the third and final day of the National Yearling Sale came from Clifton Stud when a beautiful Crusade colt sold for R350 000, whilst the top-priced filly of the final day came from Piemonte Stud for R200 000 as Lot 410.
Day 2 of the National Yearling Sale yielded very pleasing results, in particular for Bush Hill Stud who sold the top-priced KZN colt to date with a magnificent son of Kahal out of Plutonium by Muhtafal, for R650 000 whilst Rathmor’s Eightfold Path filly sold for R325 000.
KZN’s top selling colt of the day came from Bush Hill Stud – an immaculately-bred Oratorio colt out of Felix The Cat by Black Minnaloushe, knocked down to Garth Puller for R400 000, whilst St Helier Stud’s breathtaking grey Crusade filly sold for R300 000.
In the past week Bush Hill Stud have had two significant winners – each at Kenilworth and at the Vaal, and they have two siblings consigned at the National Yearling Sales taking place this week. Both yearlings are by National Top 4 sire Kahal, and this is the last crop of yearlings available from the deceased son of Green Desert.
“He is not only our and the province’s flagship stallion, but he’s a lovable character to whom every last soul on the farm has an attachment.”
You can purchase your own piece of the “Iron Horse” when his brilliantly fast French-trained son, Eightfold Path, makes his Sales debut at Bloodstock South Africa’s National Yearling Sale on 27 – 29 April.
Bush Hill Stud have secured a serious stallion prospect with Flying The Flag for their stallion roster of 2016, a son of the legendary Galileo and a very exciting prospect for the province of KZN and South Africa indeed.
Gr1 Allan Robertson winner Chocolicious, a Backworth Stud-bred daughter of Kahal has seen her first yearling by Frankel sold to Shadwell Stud for $610 000, off the Inglis Australia Easter Yearling Sale. She is the first yearling by Frankel to be sold in the Southern Hemisphere. The chestnut filly will be exported and sent…
What has to be the most value for money sire in South Africa, Toreador notched up yet another Gr3 winner to add to his accolades, with Bull Valley galloping home to an almost two length victory in the Man ‘O War Sprint at Turffontein yesterday.
Bezrin has returned to KZN and will be standing the 2016 breeding season at Yellow Star Stud, his original home after importation by Craig Ramsay to Golden Acres (now Yellow Star Stud).
Bush Hill Stud’s magnificent son of Fastnet Rock, the only son of the great Australian sire in South Africa, is off the mark with his first winner at the Vaal bred by Cathy and Jonathan Martin’s Hadlow Stud. Fast And Rocking, a two year old filly out of an Australian Archway mare, Terrestrial Rose, won second time out for trainer Mr D Little in a juvenile plate over 1200m.
After passing through the TBA National 2YO Sale as unsold in 2013, the Scott Bros’ Talktothestars has been knocking on the door for a big win and it came in the Gr2 Senor Santa Handicap at Turffontein on Saturday, his eighth career win to date. He has a Mogok half-brother coming up at the National Yearling Sale, a full brother to two winners.
Spring Valley’s resident sire Just As Well earned a double yesterday at the Vaal, with two year old colt Chilli Con Carne winning his second start after placing second previously, and Just Africa adding to the day to get his second career win.
Summerhill’s young resident sire Golden Sword, the only son of High Chapparal at stud in South Africa, has seen his full-brother, All Body And Soul, get his second in Ireland over 2400m for trainer Tracey Collins. The 2012 gelding has had just five starts, winning twice and placing once.
Rathmor-bred Romany Prince, a Kahal half-brother to American and South African multiple Gr1 winner Gypsy’s Warning, not only gave his dam more Black Type by winning the Drum Star Handicap Listed but in the process, Ormond Ferraris’ 2500th winner in a career spanning 64 years. Scott Bros’ Gr2 winning son of Miesque’s Approval, Judicial, finished closely in second position.
Bush Hill Stud’s King’s Chapel is in form as another of his sons won by a powerful five and a half lengths at Greyville over 1000m. The handsome bay three year old gelding, aptly named Mr Mcsteamy, happens to be a half-brother to recent Class record setter at Scottsville – Dreya’s Gold.
After Miesque’s Approval’s large strapping handsome son, Backworth-bred Humidor, set a course record at Scottsville over 1200m beating Kildonan’s set previously in a Gr1 race, his four year old daughter Dreya’s Gold bred by Bush Hill Stud set a class record at Scottsville over 1000m yesterday for trainer Garth Puller.
KZN’s first Season sires with their first yearlings for sale In 2016. All Group Winners, two of the Gr1 – Irish Flame and Crusade. Look out for their first progeny to go to auction this year.
Its been a good weekend for Bush Hill Stud stallions, with Toreador and King’s Chapel featuring once again on Guineas Day at Turffontein.
Another daughter of last season’s national leading freshman sire Visionaire, added to his Graded Stakes winning accolades as a sire with the aptly named Summerhill-bred Heaps Of Fun, winning the Gr2 Wilgebosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas yesterday for her owner Mr Nchakha Moloi
Bush Hill Stud’s son of King Of Kings, King’s Chapel, has had three winners in a little over a week – including Rhumba Magic who did it in a devastating fashion to win by over seven lengths. Of the three winners, two were bred by Scott Bros.
The St John Gray bred, trained and raced Call To Combat has got his stud career off to a start with a winner at Greyville.
Summerhill Stud’s exciting stallion Traffic Guard came out of the blocks flying when he broke the ice with his first raced runner at Greyville on Sunday. The Kom Naidoo-trained Sovereign Magic built on her three placed efforts with a courageous performance to win the Maiden Juvenile Plate run over 1000m on the polytrack.
Backworth-bred Humidor, the Tony Rivalland-trained Miesque’s Approval gelding, officially lowered Grade 1 winner Kildonan’s 1200m Scottsville course record on Sunday with the yard aiming Humidor at the Grade 1 Tsogo Sun Sprint.
It was a 1-2 past the winning post for Kahal as the Kjell-Foundation-bred Symbolik won the Fairview Mile for the stable of Dorrie Sham, whilst his Stakes winning paternal half-brother Distinguished finished a close second.
“Crowned Champion Freshman Sire for the South African racing season of 2014/2015, it was thanks to Team Valor’s Barry Irwin and his vision of what he wished to achieve from the breeding of his mares based in KZN that we have Visionaire standing in the province of KwaZulu Natal.” – International Racehorse Magazine.
Visionaire achieved a 1-2 in the 11th race on J&B Met day, when the Joey Ramsden-trained Mr Wise Guy galloped to a near two length victory from Vilakazi, a son of Visionaire and half-brother to Hong Kong winner, Mighty Emperor.
The winning combination of the Louis Goosen Racing Stable and Piere Strydom results in the 150th win for the combination, aboard a Visionaire half-brother to Gr1 winner Love Struck.
We invited Gold Circle’s Racing Analyst and TV presenter Warren Lenferna to visit Scott Bros’ Highdown Stud on Friday to view the stallions, and a few of the 2015 foals including a spectacular half-brother to Wild One and a yearling full-brother to Gr1 winner Orbison.
Breed-shaping sire Kingmambo has been euthanized at 26 due to the infirmities of old age, Lane’s End Farm have announced. Kingmambo is the broodmare sire of Scott Bros’ son of Giant’s Causeway, Eightfold Path.
The most successful son of the great Danehill to stand his stud career in South Africa, Toreador of Bush Hill Stud will have his first crop of KZN-bred yearlings available this year at auction. He has produced four winners in three days over four different racecourses countrywide.
Noble Tune’s half-brother Honor Code, a son from the final crop of A.P Indy, won the Eclipse Award for Champion Dirt Older Male over the weekend.
KZN has recently had a number of winners at Kenilworth from both Bush Hill and Rathmor Stud, whilst Visionaire’s last three runners have all been winners. They are all headed up by Bush Hill Stud’s impressive Trippi colt who galloped to smashing eight length victory yesterday, descending from the immediate family of Gr1 winners Zirconeum and Stellite.
Rathmor Stud’s Noble Tune has both his maternal and paternal half-brothers, Honor Code and Liam’s Map respectively and both standing their first seasons at Lanes End – both nominated for the prestigious Eclipse Awards category of Older Dirt Male.
Mighty Emperor collected his second win in Singapore for Pat Shaw, the son of Kahal winning over 1600m by a length.
A happy chord of nostalgia was struck Saturday night when Serene Melody ended her racing career with a perfect-trip victory in the $50,000 Wintergreen Stakes at Turfway Park in northern Kentucky. Serene Melody was produced by the Hall of Fame mare Serena’s Song, the third dam of Noble Tune and Honor Code.
Initially beginning his stud career at Rob and Michele Pickering’s Middlefield Stud in Mooi River, Byword transferred to Mauritzfontein and sees his first crop of yearlings go on sale in 2016 – the first being presented for sale in January at the CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale.
Yellow Star Stud have announced the sad passing of Klawervlei-owned Lion Tamer, who fatally injured himself prior to covering a mare.
KZN Sires Redoute’s Promise, Noble Tune and Linngari all had news to come out of the recent Arqana December Mixed Bloodstock sale held at Deauville, with Noble Tune’s family topping the sale overall and Redoute’s Choice, the sire of Bush Hill’s Redoute’s Promise, providing a session topper with a weanling filly and a number of mares sold in foal to Linngari, including a maiden for €50 000.
Solskjaer, a former Summerhill sire, has been exported to Ireland for stud duties at Coolagown Stud, and has settled in well after arriving three weeks ago.
Lovely Naughty, previously named Indie Pop won his third race in Hong Kong today, Peter Gibson reports.
By the ever consistent Kahal, Lovely Naughty was purchased by Mr Ted Mok from the 2012 Bloodstock SA Ready To Run Sale for R470 000.
A Shadwell-bred daughter of Kahal out of Mentalite, Chennai Babe owned and trained by Champion Trainer Sean Tarry, won the Indigo Handicap (Non Black Type) at Greyville on Friday evening by half a length.
The Kenilworth meeting today saw the first race being won by a three year old son of Mogok out of a full-sister to Jet Master, whilst King Of Kings had success as the broodmare sire of the Southeaster Listed winner Captain Alfredo, with Scott Bros’ son of Overlord – Talktothestars, finishing less than a length off in third position over the 1100m.
KZN-bred Kwinta, a lovely big daughter of Kahal bred by the Kjell Foundation followed in her full sister’s footsteps to add more Bold Black Type for her dam Salaam who has nicked beautifully to Kahal, now producing three Stakes Winners – all full-sisters, all owned by Mrs L C A Bouwer and all trained by Stan Ferriera.
Garlingari took home the Prix Du Grand Camp (Listed) in France at Lyon recently by an incredible 8.5 lengths from Monsun gelding Quidamo.
The filly named Malher De Branco (formerly Yoruba) is owned by Mr B P Finch, Mrs K Finch & Ridgemont Stud (Nom: Mr Craig Carey), and is Visionaire’s most expensive yearling to date – she sold for R1,4million at the 2014 National Yearling Sale, bred and consigned by Summerhill Stud.
Foals from Yellow Star Stud, including progeny by Duke Of Marmalade and The Assayer. These are the first foals from both stallions.
Peter Gibson of Racing South Africa has just reported that the Scott Bros-bred, Monsieur Mogok has just won in Hong Kong under Douglas Whyte for owner Robert Chung and trainer Tony Millard.
Rathmor Stud: A gallery of Noble Tune’s First Foals
Summerhill’s young bay speed machine Ato, a son of Royal Academy out of a mare that has produced 100% winners to runners – Another Legend(USA) by Lyphard’s Wish – has had his first foals arrive this season at Summerhill.
Bush Hill Stud’s Toreador has produced five winners in five days of the beginning of November.
Lane’s End have announced that Noble Tune’s half-brother and dual Gr1 winner Honor Code will be standing for $40 000 in the 2016 breeding season. This is on a par with Lemon Drop Kid and City Zip, both standing at Lane’s End.
Giant’s Causeway, the sire of Scott Bros’ sire Eightfold Path and the now deceased Await The Dawn from Summerhill Stud, produced the sales topper at Keeneland last night when Take Charge Brandi sold for $6 million. Eightfold Path and Await The Dawn will have their first crop of yearlings on offer in 2016.
Rathmor Stud’s Noble Tune and his half-brother Honor Code had their weanling half-brother by War Front, Lot423 sell for $2,6million to MV Magnier of Coolmore Stud at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale.
Eightfold Path’s impeccable pedigree is coming to the fore as the common denominator of two international Gr1 winners – his fourth dam, a broodmare named Hardiemma, has now produced through her descendants the Gr1 Melbourne Cup winner Prince Of Penzance, and two days ago Johannes Vermeer, the winner of the Gr1 Criterium International in France.
Beginning with Liam’s Map, who shares the same sire Unbridled’s Song as Noble Tune – winning the Gr1 Breeders Cup Dirt Mile, filly Wavell Avenue by Harlington (Unbridled – Serena’s Song) was victorious in the Gr1 Fillies And Mares Sprint, whilst Noble Tune’s half-brother Honor Code wasn’t disgraced to finish third behind the great American Pharoah in the Gr1 Breeders Cup Classic.
Great news for Rathmor Stud has come in this morning as the grey colt Liam’s Map wins the Breeders Cup Dirt Mile in record time, sharing a sire with Noble Tune, that of the great grey Unbridled’s Song. Noble Tune is the first son of Unbridled’s Song to stand in South Africa and his first foals are…
The Scott Bros have introduced a magnificent Crusade colt out of their home-bred mare Endangered Species, the dam of 2015 Gr1 Gold Cup winner Wild One.
A number of KZN-breds will be lining up for the big race day at Turffontein tomorrow, featuring both the CTS and BSA Ready To Run Cup races, amongst a number of Graded Stakes races taking place on the day. Last year’s Gr2 Charity Mile winner, Bezanova, will be lining up once more in this race to take…
Bruce and Delia Le Roux of Spring Valley Stud have sent through some photos of their beautiful Just As Well colts, very typical of what the young top Juvenile sire produces with foals that exude strength, bone and class.
Bush Hill Stud: Toreador Eighth On National Sires Log A Toreador colt for 4-time winning dam Another Schlep by Portrush. In form Toreador is blazing ahead with his progeny on the racetracks across the country having now won three times, and placed nine times in six days which has given…
Rathmor News: Noble Tune Foals And Updates; Broodmare Summer Angel Exciting Prospects Exit Here gets his third win for owners Alesh Naidoo and Markus Jooste, a son of Summer Angel. Image: Gold Circle Exit Here, a son of Rathmor’s resident broodmare Summer Angel, got up to win his third race in a row for the…
Mogok Vaal Hat-Trick Mogok pictured in May 2015. Image: Candiese Marnewick Mogok achieved a hat trick at the Vaal on Tuesday when the first three races of the day with Magic, Supanova and Battle Of Arcole, two of them bred by Scott Bros and a double for Leon Erasmus. Three…
Another Gr2 Winner For Bush Hill’s Toreador Toreador pictured at the recent Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day. Image: Candiese Marnewick Toreador has been enjoying a purple patch this year with regular winners crossing the finish lines across all tracks in South Africa, and one of his leading current fillies is the…
2015 Equus Awards: KZN-Breds Futura And Wild One Take Home Honours An outstanding evening took place last night at Emperors Palace Convention Centre which saw the 2015 Equus Awards being held. It was a proud evening for KZN as recent Gr1 eLan Gold Cup winner Wild One took home the Equus Champion Stayer Award for…
Redoute’s Choice Fee Announced Bush Hill Stud stand the first son of Australian sire sensation Redoute’s Choice in South Africa, a very big and handsome four year old Redoute’s Promise who covered his first season in 2014. His paternal half-sister, the grey Majmu, is making waves across South Africa after her…
Noble Tune News: Honor Code Grabs Another Gr1 Noble Tune’s half-brother Honor Code caught early leader Liam’s Map in the final strides to win the $1.25 million Whitney Stakes (Gr1) on 8 August at Saratoga Race Course. The 4-year-old ridgling from the final crop of A.P. Indy registered his second straight major…
Win For Crusade’s Half-Brother Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade pictured during a recent visit. Image: Candiese Marnewick Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winning Crusade, standing at Scott Bros, had his half-brother Sir Henry Raeburn(IRE) out of mare La Traviata win his fourth start over seven furlongs for trainer Paul Cole and owner Mr RA Green….
First Foal For Noble Tune At Rathmor Noble Tune’s first foal has been born at Rathmor Stud to Australian mare Silent Nights, a two time winner by Catbird out of a Palace Music mare. The colt, a first for his dam, is a strong stamp of his sire in his head and looks with three…
Noble Tune News: Group Winners In Two Weeks For Broodmare Sire Unbridled’s Song The grey 17hh Gr1 Sire Of Sires’and Broodmare Sire Unbridled’s Song, the sire of Rathmor Stud’s Noble Tune. From the 21 March until 4 April, Unbridled’s Song featured in Japan, Australia and America as the broodmare sire present in the winners enclosure…
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day 2015 Curved Ball Bush Hill’s Stallion Day took place in beautiful Midlands weather under sunny skies and snow capped mountains, with 130 guests tucking into tempura prawns and sushi on arrival. Warwick Render welcomed the guests before introducing the stallions, with Curved Ball, Irish Flame, King’s Chapel, Toreador and Redoute’s…
Treble For Kahal Night Racing, Five Winners In Five Days London Call, a three-time winner from four starts, yet to be out of the money at Scottsville over 1200m. His female line will be well represented at the upcoming National Yearling Sale at Spring Valley Stud. Continuing to stamp himself as a top sire, Kahal…
Curved Ball: Fastnet Rock Australian Champion Sire Again Curved Ball at the recent 2015 Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day Fastnet Rock, sire of Klawervlei’s promising young sire Curved Ball who stands at Bush Hill Stud, became Champion Sire in Australia for the second time recently. The son of Danehill, who had previously headed the premiership…
First Winner For Bankable From Balmoral From just six runners from his first and only crop, Bankable(IRE) had his first winner on Saturday at Turffontein in the familiar green and white colours of owner-trainer St John Gray. The two year old filly named Parisienne Chic won fourth time out over 1400m at Turffontein – bred…
Fourth Gr1 Winner For Mogok As Wild One Sweeps To Gold Cup Victory Mogok at Scott Bros Highdown Stud in May 2015. Providing one of the three Gr1 victories for KZN-breds on Super Saturday at Greyville, Mogok added yet another Gr1 winner to his list after Wild One took the Gr1 eLan Gold Cup in…
Royal Pleasure Makes It Five Winners In March For Visionaire Gr1 King’s Bishop winner, Visionaire, has got his stallion career off to great heights with five winners achieved in March alone, including from his small crop of first foals running in the USA. The Summerhill resident son of Grand Slam has a particularly smart filly…
Kahal National Leading Sire On Sand; 5th Overall Kahal continues the lead as National Leading Sire on Sand by Stakes earned according to sportingpost.co.za, whilst still remaining in fifth position overall Nationally, according to the NHRA’s current stats. With Uncle Tommy heading up the sand stats, Kahal achieved a winners to runners percentage of 23%,…
Unbeaten Rabada Gets First Gr1 Win For Brave Tin Soldier Brave Tin Soldier looking an absolute picture at the recent Summerhill Stud Stallion Day. Summerhill are riding the crest of a wave at the moment, beginning with Visionaire taking the honours yesterday as South Africa’s new Champion Freshman Sire, followed up by another of Summerhill’s…
Good Start For The Apache In The Cape Rosedene Stud’s well performed young stallion The Apache has made a pleasing start to his fledgling stud career. The Mogok son covered around about 40 mares in his first season at stud, with pleasing fertility. The Apache, bred by the Scott Bros, was a top class racehorse…
“V” Is For Victory: Visionaire Crowned Champion Freshman Sire Visionaire pictured at the recent Summerhill Stallion Day. Team Valor International and Summerhill Stud’s big magnificent son of Grand Slam has been crowned Champion Freshman Sire for the 2014/2015 racing season. Querari, Warm White Night and another of KZN’s young sires, Spring Valley and Roski Stud’s…
Greyville Turf Double For Sire A.P. Answer A.P. Answer, pictured last week during a visit from presenter Martin Locke. Image: Candiese Marnewick Peter and Jenny Blyth of Clifton Stud were very pleased over the weekend with the fantastic double on Friday night at Greyville for their young sire A.P. Answer. What An Answer, bred by…
Scott Bros Stallions Good Chance In Gr1 Gold Cup Wild One pictured in the parade ring prior to running second in the KZN Breeders Million Mile a month ago. The Scott Bros stallions, Mogok and Miesque’s Approval have the only KZN horses represented in the eLan Gr1 Gold Cup to be run on Saturday at…
1-2-3-4 For Polytrack Leading Sire Miesque’s Approval – One Race! Miesque’s Approval is in the news once more with an exciting win at Greyville on the Polytrack, 15 March, over 1600m won by Rocky Bay – followed by three other sons of Miesque’s Approval in a remarkable 1-2-3-4. A rarity in racing, the MR72 Handicap…
Noble Tune Stallion Day With 160 guests gathered under magnificent blue skies at Rathmor Stud, Andrew Bon introduced the most exciting stallion prospect to come to South Africa, in Lynton Ryan’s opinion – since the arrival of Fort Wood. The magnficent son of Unbridled’s Song and the only one of his sire on the African…
Gr2 Umkhomazi Winner For King Of Kings Two year old King Of Kings colt, King’s Knight, sauntered home deservedly to take the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes by over three lengths from Oriental Tiger and Vous Et Var, after being perfectly positioned midfield under Anthony Delpech. Yet to be out of the money from an incredible nine…
Introducing Al Miqdaam It is only the middle of March and Mooi River is already a very cool place to be on a very wet and rain-filled day on a trip to meet Al Miqdaam – a strongly built son of Danehill who has had only two runners on the track – and both winners…
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day – Invitation
Miesque’s Approval Leading National Sire On Artificial Going Miesque’s Approval looking a picture last week at Scott Bros, during a visit from presenter Martin Locke. Proving to be the king of the polytracks, Scott Bros resident sire Miesque’s Approval is leading nationally as the top sire on artificial going. He has several smart, well-related yearlings…
Chad Le Clos Toreador Colt To Debut On Wednesday Olympic and World Champion swimming hero Chad Le Clos is “very excited” ahead of the debut of the first racehorse he has ever owned, the Paul Lafferty-trained Unbelievable Chad, and will be on course at Scottsville on Wednesday to cheer him on. Lafferty described the two-year-old…
Kildonan’s Kenilworth Double Yellow Star’s resident sire Kildonan had a double at Kenilworth on Saturday in the first and fourth race, with Saint Donan winning over 1200m and Revved Up over 2000m. Saint Donan won the aptly named Wilgebosdrift Stud Maiden Plate comfortably by over a length under Christopher Puller. Charlie Strong, by Ravishing, finished…
Summerhill Stallion Day: Capetown Noir Introduced Summerhill Stud held their Stallion Day on Sunday, traditionally after the Vodacom Durban July where the winning colours of Lady Laidlaw’s Khaya Stables crossed the winning post of Africa’s most illustrious horse race, were again presented on Sunday when Capetown Noir was introduced. Under unusually warm sunny Midlands weather…
Black Type For Freshman Sire Just As Well Yet to be out of the money from four starts and knocking on the door for a win, Just As Well’s two year old colt, Just As I Said, ran third to Isca in the Storm Bird Listed for trainer David Niewenhuizen and owner Mr JM Cola….
Vodacom Durban July KZN News Lady Christine Laidlaw’s Khaya Stables emerged victorious in the 2015 Vodacom Durban July with Silvano colt Power King trained by Dean Kannemeyer, a previous winning combination for Dean with the yellow and black silks previously carried by Summerhill’s exciting young new stallion acquisistion, Capetown Noir, and we warmly welcome Khaya…
Noble Tune News: Honor Code Soars To Victory In Gr2 Gulfstream Lane’s End Racing and Dell Ridge Farm’s Honor Code, a half-brother to Gr2 and Gr3 winning Noble Tune, in his first start of 2015 saw him mow down the front-runners with a strong rally to capture the $300,000 Gr2 Gulfstream Park Handicap. With Javier…
Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale: Final Results And KZN Yearling Sale Graduate News For Vodacom Durban July Day The Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale finished up on Friday with 262 Lots catalogued, the average dropping by 2.9% percent from last year to R99 364 for a yearling sold. The top-priced colt KZN-bred colt on the second day…
King’s Chapel: Thurlow Running In Gr1 Blue Diamond King’s Chapel is the broodmare sire of Sebring filly Thurlow, who lines up in the Gr1 Blue Diamond Stakes on Saturday in Australia. She is out of one of King’s Chapel’s best progeny produced to date, Princess Emmy. Gr1 Blue Diamond Stakes contender Thurlow will figure in…
Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale: First Day Results The Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale saw the first 150 Lots knocked down out of 262 offered over two days. The average remains above the previous years, with the top priced horse of the sale to date being a Trippi filly for R600 000, Lot 72 beautifully named Announcing…
The ‘King’ Is Dead After the recent loss of Muhtafal, KZN lost another stalwart stallion in King Of Kings this week at The Fort Stud, due to cardiac arrest at age 20. King Of Kings stood most of his South African career at Alan and Vera Sutherland’s Somerset Stud, before being relocated to Clifton and…
Bezanova Grabs The KZN Breeders Million Mile The KZN Breeders once again held a success day exclusively for horses registered with the KZN Breeders Premium Scheme, a day that incorporates both the KZN Breeders Series of eight races for a stake of R200 000 each, and the KZN Breeders Million Mile. With over 600 entries…
24 February: Auction Of Stallions Mullins Bay, Solskjaer And Way West Following the Summer Ready To Run Sale on Tuesday, 24th February at the School of Equine Management Excellence, the following well-known KZN stallions will be sold to the highest bidder: MULLINS BAY: a son of Machiavellian, sire of millionaire Gitiano; other notable progeny include…
KZN Breeders Race Day Results
KZN-bred Print The Pounds Wins Gr3 Zimbabwe Guineas Clifton Stud-bred Print The Pounds won the Gr3 Zimbabwe Guineas yesterday over 1600m at Borrowdale, her fourth win a row for sire A.P. Answer. This is the first leg of the Zimbabwean Triple Crown. The appropriately named three year old filly has yet to be out of…
Invitation: Noble Tune Stallion Day
Noble Tune News: Unbridled’s Song Dominates Gr3 General George The two greys fought it out to the finish in the Gr3 General George Handicap on 16 February, both colts with a common denominator – Unbridled’s Song. Misconnect, a three year old son of Unbridled’s Song grabbed the Gr3 at Laurel Park over 1400m, winning by…
Mogok Dominates KZN Breeders Million Mile Field Scott Bros’ resident sire Mogok dominates the KZN Breeders Million Mile field to be run on Sunday at Greyville on the turf, with five of his progeny represented out of the 12 entries. Wild One heads up the entries and looks to be a serious contender, the Mike…
Four Winners For Fort Beluga In February Voted KZN’s Freshman Sire at our KZN Breeders Awards in 2014, Fort Beluga has produced four winners for February to date – including three winners over a period of three days. The son of Fort Wood out of Langoustine by Northern Guest, stood at Spring Valley Stud where…
KZN Breeders Million Mile Final Field Announced Trainer Gavin van Zyl will be out to win the KZN Breeders Million Mile for the second consecutive year when he saddles the five-year-old Kahal gelding No Worries for the race at Greyville in Durban on Sunday. The gutsy campaigner out of the Rambo Dancer mare Coastal Watch…
Passing Of Muhtafal Shadwell Stud and Spring Valley Stud recently announced the death of KZN stallion MUHTAFAL. The 23 year old son of Mr Prospector began his career at Summerhill Stud and continued at Spring Valley where he was subsequently retired, Muhtafal was a leading stallion in KZN for many years – highly respected by…
First Stakes Win For Brave Tin Soldier Brave Tin Soldier’s impressive colt Rabada notched up two notable milestones when cruising to an impressive victory in Saturday’s R135 000 Listed Gatecrasher Stakes at Greyville. He not only enjoyed the honour of being crowned a first stakes winner for his beautifully bred sire but was also a…
Spectrum Grandson Tops Karaka Select Sale This time as a paternal grandsire, Spectrum had a bay colt sell at the Karaka Select Yearling Sale for a sale-topping $525 000. The colt sold as Lot 610, a son of Tartan Bearer(IRE). Tartan Bearer [pictured right], an eye-catching chestnut by Spectrum out of Highland Gift by Generous…
American Pharoah Wins Triple Crown The drought is mercifully over. In the 37th year after Affirmed swept the classics in 1978, Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah toyed with the field of seven other horses to win the $1.5 million Gr1 Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. After a good break, the Pioneerof the Nile colt trained by…
NZ Gr3 Win For Broodmare Sire St Petersburg At Trentham in New Zealand, star three year old filly Platinum Witness (California Dane-Chartreuse, by St. Petersburg) scored by two lengths for trainer Lisa Latta in the NZ$70,000 Gr3 Desert Gold Stakes over 1600m for three year old fillies. She went on to win well over fellow…
Great Weekend For Rathmor Stud Rathmor Stud had great success with the half-siblings of their first season sire Noble Tune, as well as local news from the Gatecrasher Listed run at Greyville on Saturday. After Noble Tune’s Bernardini half-sister Lady Serena opened the Belmont carnival with her second win to date, their half-brother by A.P….
KZN Sires Well Represented On Val De Vie Yearling Sale The Val De Vie Yearling Sale takes place at the beautiful Val De Vie Estate in Franschoek, an hour outside of Cape Town, on Sunday 22 February. It is pleasing to see a number of KZN Sires represented at the sale, amongst them will be…
Noble Tune News: Second Win For Sister Lady Serena After winning her maiden in a serious fashion by more than seven lengths, Lady Serena followed this up with a strong second win at Belmont over 1600m from just four career starts. Owned and raced by Dell Ridge Farm, she broke well and maintained a forward…
A Dynasty: Irish Flame To Carry The Torch Exciting news broke last night from the CTS Book 1 sale with a South African sales record made by a top-priced Dynasty colt, Shining Knight, reaching a massive R5,2million and a Dynasty filly following for R3.7 million. Dynasty is hot right now with the likes of Yellow…
50-1 Fastnet Rock Filly Throws A Curve Ball At Gr1 Oaks At Epsom The mighty Curved Ball pictured at Bush Hill Stud. His first yearlings are on sale this year. Qualify caused a huge upset in the Oaks on Friday when staying on from the rear to nail favourite Legatissimo in the shadow of the…
Visionaire’s First Winner Romps Home By Almost Seven Lengths On Debut Visionaire had his first winner at Scottsville yesterday over 1000m, the two year old filly Royal Pleasure showing plenty of speed to annihilate the field on debut by close to seven lengths for her owners, the 3 A Racing Syndicate (Nom: Mr W A…
Sarah Whitelaw Visits KZN Sarah Whitelaw with Rathmor’s first season sire, Noble Tune(USA). A top breeding and racing journalist both locally and internationally, Sarah Whitelaw visited a few of our breeding establishments in KZN, from Eston to Mooi River last week in unusually warm weather for the KZN Midlands winter. A lady passionate about pedigrees…
Unbeaten Toreador Filly Wins Swallow Stakes Listed The Ormond Ferraris-trained Gr3 Magnolia Handicap winner Lazer Star retained her unbeaten record with a facile win in Saturday’s R150 000 Listed Swallow Stakes run over the Turffontein 1160m straight. The daughter of Toreador was given an armchair ride by Weichong Marwing and kept things in the family…
Nine KZN Breds In Four Gr1’s At Scottsville Nine KZN-breds will be competing in the four big Gr1’s on Saturday in Scottsville, amongst them our young sires’ Visionaire and Just As Well are well represented. Summerhill’s son of Grand Slam has got off to a cracking start at stud, with a number of juveniles not…
Two Winners In Two Days For Kildonan Kildonan’s progeny have won two races over the last two days with Beach Goddess and Scots Snog. His Gr2 winning daughter who was awarded the Cape Racing Award for Juvenile Filly last year – Rosier, is scheduled to run this afternoon in the Gr2 Sceptre Stakes at Kenilworth….
Press Release: Linngari Joins Summerhill For The 2015 Season For most racing aficionados, the weekends are “TV time” for the marquee events of the sport. Yet ever since Mike de Kock ventured upon his pioneering conquests of the riches of Dubai, Thursday evenings have become a summer “ritual” for South African fans. The early pace…
Noble Tune Update: Mare Pure Symmetry Sold For $230 000 At Keeneland Pure Symmetry on the left, her 2014 colt by Kitten’s Joy on the right A half-sister to the third dam of Rathmor’s resident sire Noble Tune, flashy chestnut mare Pure Symmetry, sold for $230 000 at the recent Keeneland January Sale. The dam…
Press Release: Capetown Noir At Summerhill For 2015 Season You have to hand it to Lady Laidlaw: she’s not one to traverse the road most travelled. Which probably explains, as much as anything, the frequency with which her yellow and black silks occupy the big race winner’s box. There’s no “pot luck” with Her Ladyship,…
Spectrum Grand-Daughter Up Sells For $2.2 Million At Keeneland The Irish-bred broodmare Up, a grand-daughter of Yellow Star Stud’s resident sire Spectrum, gave a big lift to Keeneland’s January horses of all ages sale 13 January, selling for a sale-leading $2.2 million at the auction’s second session on a day that saw average price rise…
St John Gray Takes Gr1 Castle Tankard The St John Gray bred, owned and trained KZN-bred Yer-Maan, with Quinton Riddle up, won the Gr1 $50 000 Castle Tankard run over 2000m at Borrowdale Park on Saturday, writes Sheldene Chant. The 53rd edition of Africa’s oldest sponsored horserace produced a thriller with the Gauteng based owner-trainer…
Weekend Racing News For Miesque’s Approval And Spectrum Recent Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes winner, Scott-bred Judicial, placed third in the Gr3 London News Stakes just two lengths off Australian import Killua Castle. The son of Miesque’s Approval in his previous start placed third behind Louis The King in the Gr1 Summer Cup after his brilliant…
Scott Bros International Racing News For KZN: Miesque’s Approval and Crusade Scott Bros have two of their stallions highlighted as Miesque’s Approval’s half-brother by Northern Afleet, a 2012 grey gelding named World Approval placed third at Churchill Downs in the Gr2 American Turf Stakes. Finishing less then two lengths off the winner in good going…
Crusade’s Dam Covered By Galileo Scott Bros’ very exciting speed sire prospect, Crusade [pictured below left], the black son of Mr Greeley and winner of the exclusive British Gr1 Middle Park Stakes, has seen his first foals on the ground this season at studs across KZN. Recent news in is that his dam, La Traviata…
Way West Half-Brother By Toreador Wins By 13 Lengths On Debut Toreador has had three winners in less than a week – with a double at the Vaal on Tuesday 5 May, including a two year old son – a half-brother to sire Way West, winning a dazzling debut by almost 13 lengths over 1200m…
Rathmor Stud: Close Hatches Nominated For Eclipse Older Female Award Close Hatches, closely related in pedigree to Rathmor’s new resident sire Noble Tune, has been nominated for the upcoming 44th Eclipse Awards in the category of Older Female taking place 17 January. Her fellow nominees include Group winners’ Dayatthespa and Don’t Tell Sophia. Close Hatches…
King’s Chapel: Thurlow Places Second In Queen Adelaide Stakes Listed Bush Hill’s resident sire King’s Chapel had his grand-daughter finish second in the Queen Adelaide Stakes Listed in Australia over 1050m, her first start out since her run in the Gr1 Blue Diamond Stakes at the end of February. The two year old Sebring filly…
Death Of High Chapparal, Sire Of Golden Sword Dual Derby winner High Chaparral, and the sire of Summerhill Stud’s Golden Sword, has died at the age of 15. The six-time Group 1 winning son of Sadler’s Wells was put down at Fethard Equine Hospital during exploratory colic surgery due to a perforated intestine. Winner of…
Noble Tune News: Half Sister Lady Serena Breaks Maiden By Seven Lengths Noble Tune’s three year old Bernardini half-sister, Lady Serena, broke her maiden at Belmont on Sunday in devastating fashion over 1700m, leading the race from the jump to open up off the corner easily on the dirt track, going on to win powerfully…
Clifton Stud: Five Winners On One Day Between Stud And Stallion Clifton Stud and A.P. Answer achieved five winners on Sunday between them, at Scottsville and at Borrowdale – three for A.P. Answer as a stallion and three for Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud. Scottsville began with Chartwell bred by Miss CJ Rymill, winning…
First Winner For Yellow Star’s Tropical Empire He has to be one of the most beautiful stallions standing in KZN – a big bold eye, plenty of presence and energy, and very easy on the eye when it comes to his conformation – reminiscent of the early George Stubb’s paintings of the English Thoroughbred with…
KZN-Bred Monsieur Mogok Places Second In Hong Kong Monsieur Mogok, a four year old bay gelding by Mogok out of Miss Madam by Dolpour and owned by Robert Chung, bred by Scott Bros finished runner up in a Class 3 handicap at Sha Tin over 1800m – finishing very strongly from stone last under a…
First Winner For Just As Well(USA) Just As Well pictured galloping through the lush green acres of Spring Valley Stud in January 2015. Image: Candiese Marnewick International Group winning sire Just As Well has had his two year olds arrive in a serious fashion. After getting Black Type from David Niewenhuizen’s Just As I Said…
Majmu And The KZN Redoute’s Choice Link Majmu stamped her authority on Saturday as a force to be reckoned with, after winning the Gr1 Avontuur Estate Fillies Guineas over 1600m easily by two and a half lengths at Kenilworth. Voted Equus Champion Two Year Filly last season, the grey took home her fifth win from…
Redoute’s Choice Fee Announced Bush Hill Stud stand the first son of Australian sire sensation Redoute’s Choice in South Africa, a very big and handsome four year old Redoute’s Promise who covered his first season in 2014. His paternal half-sister, the grey Majmu, is making waves across South Africa after her stunning win in the…
Toreador Unbeaten Filly Wins Gr3 Magnolia Resident sire of Bush Hill Stud, Toreador, had a head-turning win with his unbeaten daughter Lazer Star thundering home to victory in the Gr3 Magnolia at Turffontein yesterday. The filly is out of Empress Of Ozz by Sri Pekan. Bred by the Tawny Syndicate (owners of Toreador), Lazer Star…
Win For Crusade’s Half-Brother Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade pictured during a recent visit. Image: Candiese Marnewick Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winning Crusade, standing at Scott Bros, had his half-brother Sir Henry Raeburn(IRE) out of mare La Traviata win his fourth start over seven furlongs for trainer Paul Cole and owner Mr RA Green….
Noble Tune’s Half-Brother Impressive Come Back Win Honor Code and Noble Tune Honor Code, a half-brother by A.P. Indy to Gr2 and Gr3-winning Noble Tune who is currently standing his first season at Rathmor Stud, came back from an eight month lay-off due to injury to win most impressively at Aqueduct – coming from 10…
Putney Flyer Gains More Black Type For Miesque’s Approval Putney Flyer, a big handsome dark bay son of Miesque’s Approval standing at Scott Bros, won the Kenilworth Cup Listed over 3200m at Kenilworth on Saturday. Out of Fort Wood mare Tiptoethruthewoods, Putney Flyer was bred by Mr JF Van Streepen, trained by Darryl Hodgson and…
KZN Breeders Award Winners 2014 Click on each image for the enlarged version
King’s Chapel Grand-Daughter Aimed At Blue Diamond Bush Hill’s resident sire King’s Chapel has a grand-daughter showing exceptional talent in Australia, after placing in a Gr3 just a week before she won the Merson Cooper Stakes. Qatar Bloodstock celebrated a valuable Black Type win with promising Sebring filly Thurlow, who scored a thrilling nose win…
Gemini Gold Fourth Fantastic Victory; Champion Sire Kahal Broodmare News Gemini Gold is giving his breeder/owner Helder De Costa plenty of excitement as the Overlord gelding has now taken his fourth win in a row – the first being at Clairwood and the last three at Greyville over the new Polytrack – a surface the…
Judicial Gives Gr2 Win For Miesque’s Approval Judicial gave his sire Miesque’s Approval a fantastic Gr2 win yesterday at Turffontein in the Victory Moon Stakes over 1800m. The bay Scott Bros-bred gelding has taken home three wins back to back, at the Vaal and Turffontein over 1800 – 2000m and in the process has highlighted…
King’s Chapel Bold Black Type Success As Sire And Broodmare Sire Bush Hill’s resident sire King’s Chapel had two classy performances recently – one as a sire in a Listed race in New Zealand, the other as a broodmare sire in an Australian Gr3. The first saw his great son King Montrose place behind Silver…
First Winner For Strategic News(AUS) Gr1 Summer Cup winner and one of Rathmor’s resident sires, Strategic News(AUS) had his first winner at Greyville on the polytrack yesterday for breeder/owner Jurie Snyman, a victory made all the more sweeter for the share-holder of Strategic News. Beautifully-bred Strategic’s Pride won easily by over four lengths over 1600m…
Noble Tune’s Weanling Half-Sister Sells For $3-Million Noble Tune, currently standing his first season at Rathmor, saw his immediate pedigree making news headlines again – this time in the sales ring at Keeneland. His weanling half-sister by Tapit sold for $US3-million at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale [video of her sale above]. The filly…
Double On Polytrack For Sire Al Miqdaam Al Miqdaam, standing in the KZN Midlands at Roy Moodley’s farm has not only achieved a double on Friday night at Greyville with Al Ciberano and daughter Shikra, but also now has 100% record of producing runners to winners! It was also a double for breeder Robert Smith,…
Eightfold Path First Foals
Passing Of Await The Dawn Sad news has come through over the weekend regarding the tragic passing of a particularly exciting sire for KZN, Await The Dawn. He was the first son of Giant’s Causeway to be brought into South Africa for stud purposes, residing at Champion breeders’ Summerhill Stud. Await The Dawn not only…
Noble Tune News: Will Take Charge Stud Fee Announced Will Take Charge, last year’s three-year-old male champion and Horse of the Year finalist, will take up stud duty for the 2015 season at Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky for a fee of $30,000. Sharing the same sire as Rathmor’s new import for the 2014 breeding…
Double For Overlord On Polytrack The magnificent Australian-bred bay son of Danehill, Overlord, is producing the goods on Greyville’s artificial surface and achieved a double for the Scott Bros on 24 October. Aptly, the first horse to win in the trials on Greyville’s newly installed artificial surface was Scott Bros-bred Apache Rose by Overlord, a…
KZN Leading Several National Logs Shadwell-owned Sires’ Muhtafal and the now deceased Kahal. KZN sires and breeders are currently leading several National Logs as of 19 October. Recently deceased Kahal is currently heading up the National Sires Log by Stakes Earned. His runners have totalled an impressive R2 752 150 in Stakes earned – almost…
Muhtafal Retired From Stud Duties Shadwell has announced that its South African-based sire Muhtafal has been retired from stud duties at the age of 22. Bred and raced in the United States, the son of Mr Prospector won two races by wide margins over sprint distances during his career. Muhtafal progressed to stakes company on…
Double For Admire Main At Turffontein Admire Main achieved a double at Turffontein on the weekend with Main Sunday getting her second win for trainer Roy Magner over 1800m, and impressive debut winner The Elmo Effect winning his first by two and half lengths over 1450m for trainer Gary Alexander. Main Sunday is part owned…
Dual Gr1 Success For Family Of Noble Tune Noble Tune’s immaculate dam-line headed by his third dam, the great Serena’s Song continues its Gr1 momentum – with two horses on 13 September each placing in top company on either side of the world – Australia and Ireland. The first to show was grey colt Puissance…
Meteor Shower Joins Yellow Star Stud Yellow Star Stud have acquired Meteor Shower to join their stallion ranks. The son of Danehill is a seven time winner over 1600m – 3200m in both Ireland and South Africa including the Gr3 Chairmans Cup. Out of Teslemi by Ogygian (Damascus), both his full-brothers stand at stud –…
Rathmor Introduce Noble Tune Noble Tune’s arrival was a sight to behold as the young breath-taking stallion prospect walked eagerly next to his handler, a handsome horse with a beautiful head, pricked ears, a perfect length of rein followed by big-striding hind legs that land with perfect precision, he is gifted with an incredibly good…
Eightfold Path Full-Brother Headed For USA Eightfold Path, the son of Giant’s Causeway out of brilliant racemare Divine Proportions, has his first crop of foals arriving this season. Standing at Scott Bros, the lovely bay French Gr3-winning stallion has let down beautifully. Peter Gibson is very pleased to report the arrival of Eightfold Path’s foals…
Outstanding First Foal For Irish Flame Dual Gr1 winning son of Dynasty and the first of his sons to go to stud – Irish Flame has had his first foal born for the 2014 season, an outstanding filly out of Rambo Dancer mare, Bistro Belle at Bush Hill Stud. A two-time winner, Bistro Belle (out…
The Crusade Syndicate: AGM 22 August
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day Bush Hill Stud held their Stallion Day recently and once again, in beautiful warm Mooi River winter weather, which is becoming somewhat of a tradition for Bush Hill’s showcase of their line-up of quality sires for the upcoming 2014 breeding season. Once again the Stallion Day was supported strongly with…
KZN-breds Become Stallion And Broodmare Of The Year – Cape Awards The Cape Breeders held their breeding and racing awards recently, with two KZN-breds taking prominent awards for breeding – the first being multiple national champion sire Jet Master for Stallion Of The Year, the next being Carl and Amanda De Vos’ brilliant Broodmare Of…
Bush Hill Stud Introduce Sire Prospect Redoute’s Promise(AUS) We would like to take this opportunity to introduce to you the first son of multiple champion sire Redoute’s Choice to stand at stud in South Africa in the form of Redoute’s Promise. This exciting young horse is not only by a champion but he is out…
2014 Equus Awards: Grandson Of Badger’s Drift Up For Nomination Gr1 Champions Cup winner Futura, out of Badger’s Drift mare Scribblin’ Cat has been nominated for Equus Champion Three Year Old Colt/Gelding, as well as Champion Middle Distance Horse (1800-2200m). After a controversial entry into the 2014 Vodacom Durban July, Futura showed his true class…
Crusade(USA) First Foals
Invitation: Rathmor Stud Introducing Noble Tune(USA) View Noble Tune’s pedigree profile on Sporting Post .
Bush Hill Sires Toreador And Irish Flame Recent Success Both resident sires owned by the Tawny Syndicate – Toreador and Irish Flame – have had Bold Black Type Success in the last week. Toreador’s daughter Roc ‘n Rose won the Queen Palm Handicap Listed over 2400m at Scottsville on Sunday under jockey Muzi Yeni. This…
Invitation: Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day 2014
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Crusade’s Half-Brother Places In Gr 3 First season sire Crusade, a Gr 1 winning son of Mr Greeley who stood his first season at stud at Scott Bros in 2013, saw his half-brother by Henrythenavigator – Cristoforo Colombo – place in the Gr 3 Curragh Gladness Stakes over the weekend. Ballydoyle’s Cristoforo Colombo, tracked the…
First Winner For Brave Tin Soldier Rathmor-bred Split The Breeze won a brilliant race at Clairwood yesterday on debut by three quarters of a length over 1000m. The two year old colt is the first to win for the beautiful freshman sire, Brave Tin Soldier, at Summerhill Stud – a horse that lives up to…
King’s Chapel: First Yearlings Presented For Nationals King’s Chapel standing at Bush Hill Stud, has proven himself overseas with winners weekly in various countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Macau, Singapore and Hong Kong. King’s Chapel has had several Group winning and performing horses – including Gr 2 winner King’s Ransom, Gr 3 and 12-time…
Jackodore Grabs Nkosazana Listed By Four Lengths Toreador’s talented five year old daughter Jackodore snatched the Nkosazana Listed by an impressive four lengths from Summerhill-bred Negev, with Silent Force and Dalalaat placing respectively. The Sean Tarry-trained Jackodore made this her ninth win to date – with 12 places behind her. Owned by Chris Van Niekerk,…
Australian Gr3 Win For Broodmare Sire Spectrum Zanbagh’s vice-like grip on the Australian Oaks – and a bid to emulate her mother’s heroics – strengthened as the outstanding filly landed Guy Walter an unprecedented fifth Keith Nolan Classic at Kembla Grange on Sunday. A daughter of Bernardini, she is out of Wild Iris by Spectrum….
First Winner For Sire Al Miqdaam Roy Moodley’s young stallion standing at his breeding operation in the KZN Midlands, a son of Danehill named Al Miqdaam, had his first winner on Friday at Clairwood in the first race under jockey Brandon Lerena. The three year old chestnut gelding named Al Ciberano, bred by Robert Smith,…
First Stakes Winner For Yellow Star’s Kildonan Kildonan already has his stud career off to a blistering start, and added to it on Friday when his daughter Rosier snatched the R150 000 Listed East Cape Fillies Nursery over the 1200m straight at Fairview. The Wilgebosdrift-bred and owned filly is out of Australian mare Malmaison by…
Loss Of Two KZN Sires In the last week KZN has sadly lost two stallions – Kabool standing at Mike Pappas’ Highover Stud and Icelander at Koos and Lorraine De Klerk’s Yellow Star Stud. A 19 year old stallion, Kabool hailed from one of the greatest families in the modern day stud book. His dam,…
First South African Winner For Daring Bid(USA) The only son of Unbridled standing at stud in South Africa, Daring Bid(USA) got his first winner at the Vaal on Saturday with All The Bids, bred by Favour Stud, winning by almost four lengths over 1000m from Law Enforcer and Thunder Run. Trained by Corne Spies and…
Five Winners In Two Days For Miesque’s Approval Miesque’s Approval continues to make himself heard – having achieved an incredible five winners in two days at Clairwood, Turffontein and Borrowdale Park in Zimbabwe. The handsome son of Miesque’s Son standing at Scott Bros is currently sitting ninth on the National Sires Log (according to stats…
Exciting News Surrounding Sire Eightfold Path Peter Gibson has reported on some exciting news regarding Eightfold Path and in particular his Champion dam, Divine Proportions: “I think we can look back with some satisfaction that the stallion, having covered over 65 mares, has shown excellent fertility and enthusiasm for his job at stud. “My thanks…
Exciting Future For Visionaire Visionaire’s statistics: 11 runners – six winners with 11 wins between them – one of those already a Listed winner – and not a single runner yet unplaced. If that doesn’t make anyone in the horseracing industry sit up and take notice – nothing will – his first yearlings to hit…
A.P. Answer National Leading Two Year Old Sire By Stakes Sportingpost.co.za reports in their stats – as at 5 January – that A.P. Answer is the current leading Two Year Old sire by Stakes earned – the total being R114,750 – approximate R24 000 ahead. Stallions that follow suit are Trippi, Seventh Rock, Way West…
Just As Well Sibling Places In El Prado Stakes The half-brother to Just As Well named Utley – cleverly named after an American baseball player being by stallion Smart Strike – has placed in the El Prado Stakes on 28 December at Gulfstream Park over 1600m on turf from Mr Online (Silent Name) and Salto…
A.P. Answer Gets His First Winner It seems that exciting times lie ahead for A.P. Answer, after his very first and only runner to hit the track in South Africa has now won over 1000m at Turffontein yesterday. The filly named Snow Call, who didnt reach her reserve and was bought back at the 2013…
Spectrum’s Six-Time Gr 1 Winning Granddaughter Retired In December 2001 at the Tattersalls sale in Newmarket, England, the American breeder and owner George Strawbridge paid nearly $750,000 for Ventura (by Spectrum standing at Yellow Star Stud), a stakes-placed filly who had been bred and campaigned by the legendary trainer Vincent O’Brien. She came from one…
Approval Rating Wins Gold Cup Sprint Listed The Scott Bros’ son of Miesque’s Approval, Approval Rating, took home Borrowdale’s Gold Cup Sprint Listed, for a stake of R150 000 over 1200m. Another KZN-bred, Newtown Power bred by Bush Hill Stud, finished in fourth place. Trained by Gokhan Terzi and owned by Mr Armstrong, Approval Rating…
Kahal’s Coronet Peak Performing In Singapore Comeback galloper Coronet Peak notched his fourth win on the trot when successful in the $75,000 Kranji Stakes C over 1200m on the Polytrack on Friday night. Ridden by Alan Munro, Coronet Peak scored a fighting neck victory over Single Act (Shafiq Rizuan) with Machfive (Saifudin Ismail) a length-and-a-quarter…
Exciting Young KZN Sires – First Runners First Places Two of KZN’s most exciting young sires, A.P. Answer and Fort Beluga, have had places from their very first runners to hit the track, both in the same race at the Vaal on 28 November – Snow Call and Arrive At Five. Both horses were sent…
Kildonan – Four Winners From Seven Runners! Kildonan has started his started his stud career with clear parallels to his brilliant racing career – with sheer excellence. A phenomenally talented racehorse who won his first four starts consecutively by a combined eight lengths (his third start winning the Gr 1 Premiers) his progeny have made…
Spanish Harlem Gets First Winner The impeccably-bred Spanish Harlem has got his first winner, filly Sweet Harlem winning on sand at the Vaal by almost two and half lengths over 1200m. Owned by Mr Ramphelane Mathunyane and bred by Mr Robert Muir, Sweet Harlem was part of the first sales draft of Midlands Thoroughbreds that…
International News From Summerhill Sires St Petersburg’s son Solzhenitsyn’s Group One sweep of the “Toorak”, the son of Summerhill resident St Petersburg, had made himself a member of an elite club. According to the European Bloodstock News, his second successive victory in this historic event, confirmed his rating as one of the best milers in…
Just As Well Relative Gets Gr 3 Win At Ascot A close relative of Gr 1 winning sire Just As Well, Secret Number by Raven’s Pass won the Gr 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot on 5 October over 2400m, storming to victory by two and half lengths from Royal Empire (Zeofilio) and Gatewood (Galileo)….
Arrival Of Await The Dawn Summerhill’s new sire for the 2013 season has arrived – the much anticipated Await The Dawn, pictured with Peter Choice (breeder of recent Gr 2 Emerald Cup winner In A Rush) of Choice Carriers and stallion handlers’ Greig Muir and Themba Zuma. A son of world champion sire Giant’s Causeway…
Spectrum’s Fabulous French Gr 1 Double The Gr 1 Prix de le Foret, run on the classic French race day which incorporates the Arc de Triomphe, turned out to be a spectacular one for Yellow Star’s resident sire Spectrum – who not only had the honour of being the broodmare sire of winner Moonlight Cloud…
Eighfold Path First Mares Confirmed In Foal Scott Bros most recent addition to their sire ranks, Eightfold Path(USA) by Giants Causeway out of the brilliant racemare Divine Proportions, has got his first mares confirmed in foal, reports Highdown Stud. Eightfold Path showed early brilliance for leading French trainer Pascal Bary – winning on debut and…
Byword(GB) First Mares Confirmed In Foal Rob Pickering of Middlefield Stud has reported that champion racehorse Byword(GB) has his first mares confirmed in foal. Byword was an outstanding racehorse, who defeated no fewer than 22 Grade 1 winners during his career including the likes of Cirrus des Aigles, currently the top rated horse in Europe,…
Crusade(USA) First Mares Tested In Foal Gr 1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade has got his first season at stud off to a smashing start, getting his first group of mares including a Gr 2 winner confirmed in foal. Amongst the mares tested in foal is Gr 2 Debutante Stakes winner and maiden mare Tempted…
Irish Flame’s Full-Sisters Achieve Double At Durbanville Bush Hill Stud’s champion Gr 1 winning Irish Flame, who stands his first season at stud this year has a number of relatives hitting the heights at the racetrack. On Wednesday the two full sisters to the former Horse Of The Year won good races at Durbanville –…
Guest Column: A Bleak Winter: The Passing Of Western Winter 16 September, 2013 – Lisa Barrett Editors note: A picture speaks a thousand words. Just 10 minutes old, Backworth Stud had this magnificent Western Winter colt born 14 September, the same day his illustrious sire passed away – to their Australian mare Dancing Royale. Thank…
Bush Hill Double In Singapore Warwick Render of Bush Hill Stud reports that a very productive and exciting weekend for the Bush Hill sires – with them achieving what may well be a first for a South African stud farm, a “weekend double” in Singapore. On Friday King’s Chapel’s son Boundless Glory won the TC…
Unbeaten Strongman Takes Home Sophomore Listed Strongman, an as of yet unbeaten son of Stronghold who stood at Summerhill Stud prior to his untimely passing, took home the Sophomore Sprint Listed over 1200m at Kenilworth in slightly soft going by almost four lengths from De Kock (Dynasty), Exelero (Western Winter) and Kimberly Al (Captain Al)….
The King Of KZN: Kahal(GB) When you enter the territory of the most successful son of Machiavellian to stand in South Africa, you cannot help but be awed and almost made to feel quite inadequate by Kahal’s enormous presence. A large dark bay with a beautiful copper sheen on his coat, Kahal stands as tall…
Summerhill Stud: ‘Change The World’ “Visionaire’s first crop of juveniles have come alive” In his annual address to shareholders last week, Discovery’s Adrian Gore told his assembly that the company “aspires to be a force for social good, and that it has a desire to make a meaningful impact on society. We’re here to change…
Gr 3 August Stakes Win For Sire Muhtafal Winner of the Gr 3 August Stakes at the Vaal over the weekend – Here Comes Billy, a gelding who looks the splitting image of his great sire Muhtafal, has put himself forward as a horse with a serious chance of taking home the Gr 2 Emerald…
Scott Bros Introduce Young Sire Prospect Eightfold Path On behalf of Mr Hui Guo, principal of Brigt Industrial Trading Company (China), Robin Scott and Peter Gibson introduced the exciting young sire prospect Eightfold Path to an enthusiastic party of breeders on Wednesday at the beautiful Highdown Stud in Nottingham Road. This is the first entry…
Scott Bros Welcome New Son Of Giant’s Causeway For 2013
French Gr 1 Win for Star Broodmare Sire Spectrum Spectrum adds yet another Gr 1 win to his long list of accolades as a broodmare sire of note – his grey grand-daughter Moonlight Cloud stormed to a record-producing fast finish in the 1300m Gr 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, her third victory in this race…
Opening Of Breeding Season 2013 Heavily pregnant broodmares are beginning to fill the foaling barns in deep beds of warm straw around the Thoroughbred stud farms in the Midlands, with two of KZN’s leading breeding establishments already reporting new foal arrivals for the 2013 season. Today marks the beginning of the racing and breeding season…
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day 2013 Bush Hill Stud held their annual stallion day under beautiful midlands weather, a full house of breeders, owners and trainers were present including the who’s who of the South African breeding fraternity – including John Koster and Grant Knowles of Klawervlei Stud and Tom Callaghan of Bloodstock South Africa….
Summerhill Sires DVD 2013/2014 Summerhill Stud CEO, Mick Goss, presents the Summerhill Sires for the 2013 / 2014 breeding season. Featured in this formidable line-up of Thoroughbred Stallion talent are Await The Dawn (Son of Giant’s Causeway), Brave Tin Soldier (Son of Storm Cat), Visionaire (Grandson of Gone West), Golden Sword (Son of High Chaparral),…
International News For Young Sires Byword(GB) and Golden Sword(GB) Zatsfine, a half-sister to South Africa’s exciting young sire Byword, won a good race in France on Thursday. The daughter of Oasis Dream won a smart race over 1400m at Dieppe, enhancing her future stud value in the process. She won the Prix Nicholas and has…
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day 2013 Bush Hill Stud will be hosting their annual Stallion Day on 28 July in Mooi River – where they will introduce exciting young sire prospect and multiple Group winner Irish Flame and the proven Toreador, who will be covering his first KZN book of mares this season. Others that…
Kildonan Gets First Winner A sensationally fast racehorse who is now passing it onto his progeny, Kildonan’s two year old son Tribute To Kylie won his fourth start at Clairwood in impressive fashion by three-quarters of a length in very soft going over 1000m. From just five runners to date, Kildonan has already had a…
Investec Summerhill Stallion Day 2013 The annual Investec Summerhill Stallion Day, traditionally held on the Sunday following the Vodacom Durban July, rounds off the busiest and most glamorous week in the South Africa racing calendar with the KZN Breeders Race Day, Suncoast KZN Yearling Sales and Vodacom Durban July. A beautiful and unusually warm winters…
Summerhill Stud New Sire Addition: “Sunday’s Surprise – Ato” Ask anyone who’s attended an Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale at the TBA’s Germiston complex, where his ideal watering hole is, and he’ll tell you it’s the Maine Chance coffee bar, where Liz Slade cooks up a storm and serves up thousands of cups of the…
International News For Clifton Sires A.P. Answer’s half-sister Reponds Moi is off to a fiery start in her French racing career while King Of Kings’ American grand-daughter Channel Lady takes home yet another Gr 3 in the All Along Stakes at Colonial Downs in the USA. Reponds Moi(USA), a two year old half-sister to sire…
Summerhill Announce Exciting New Sire Acquistion: Await The Dawn AWAIT THE DAWN Giant’s Causeway – Valentine Band There are moments in the horse game you never forget. One of those was the running of Ireland’s Kilternan Stakes (Gr.3) two years ago. My curiosity was pricked by the sight of a relatively unknown youngster demolishing a…
Crusade(USA) Enthusiastically Received At Stallion Day Crusade’s official introduction to the guests who numbered over 100 at Scott Bros’ Highdown Stud, on Friday afternoon, to meet one of KZN’s new Gr 1 winning stallions was an overwhelming success. Attended by breeders and trainers alike under unusually warm weather for winter in Nottingham Road, Crusade was…
2013 RA Highveld Feature Season Awards The Racing Association Highveld Feature Season Awards ceremony took place on Saturday evening at Turffontein Racecourse and saw three KZN-breds – Virgo’s Babe, Meadow Magic and Seal, take home awards on the evening. A fairy-tale story – Virgo’s Babe took the award for Champion Two Year Old Filly. The…
KZN Breeders Juvenile Million For 2012 KZN Yearling Sale Graduates – Log 1 The first log for the KZN Breeders Juvenile Million race to be held on Vodacom Durban July day has been presented. The race, for a stake of R1-million, is a fantastic incentive to buy a yearling off the 2013 KZN Yearling Sale….
Crusade(USA) Arrives At Scott Bros Big, black and beautiful – Crusade has arrived at Scott Bros’ Highdown Stud, ready to stand his first season in South Africa at a stud farm steeped in history – where once stood the great multiple national Champion sires Foveros and Jungle Cove – amongst their many stallions to contribute…
Another Gr 3 Winner Down Under For St Petersburg(AUS) Solzhenitsyn(NZ) has won the Gr 3 Labour Day/Lord Mayor Cup over 1600m in Australia earlier today for the second year running. The son of St Petersburg(AUS) who stands at Summerhill Stud, is out of Tri Victory(NZ) by Victory Dance(IRE). A 12-time winner, Solzhenitsyn has also won…
Crusade(USA) Stallion Day Invitation
Byword(GB) Arrives At Middlefield Stud Gr 1 Prince Of Wales Stakes winner Byword has arrived safely at Middlefield Stud at the beginning of last week, Rob Pickering reports. An athletic and eye-catching chestnut horse with a top pedigree to match, Byword has an outstanding temperament, being an absolute gentleman as we approached him in his…
Spectrum: A Diamond In The Midlands Spectrum (IRE) has proved himself a significant broodmare sire over the last few years and it is exciting times for Yellow Star Stud, where the big bay son of Rainbow Quest stands in the KZN Midlands. A courageous grey grand-daughter of Spectrum named Moonlight Cloud came very close to…
Kahal Adds Another Gr 2 This Season Kahal continues his Group race successes this season, with daughter Festival Of Fire taking home the Gr 2 KRA Fillies Guineas at Greyville on Saturday. Festival Of Fire started as the 2-1 favourite, with jocky Bernard Fayd’herbe keeping her in midfield on the rail – she showed a…
Crusade(USA) Stallion Day Invitation The Scott Bros will be presenting their exciting new sire, Gr 1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade on 24 May at 11:30, at Highdown Stud in Nottingham Road. Crusade has been standing at Vaughn Marshall’s yard in Cape Town after landing in South Africa at the end of January, travelling from…
Bush Hill Stud: More Excitement Around Curved Ball(AUS) This week has seen more exciting news for the connections and supporters of Curved Ball, the first and only son of international sire sensation Fastnet Rock, at stud in South Africa. Fastnet Rock has enjoyed some outstanding results at the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale posting…
First South-African Winner For Sire Admire Main(JPN) Summerhill Stud’s Admire Main(JPN) has sired his first South African winner with bay filly Admiral’s Eye at Scottsville today by two lengths, over 1200m – for breeders Summerhill Stud and Honourable Judge Alan Magid. It was the second run for the grand-daughter of Sunday Silence – she placed…
International News For KZN This Week Mr Greeley, the sire of Crusade, has featured prominently internationally once again with a Gr 3 win in France, and two seconds in America as a grandsire in a Gr 1 Santa Anita Derby and Gr 3 Bay Shore Stakes. Spectrum’s grandson Sangster places in a Gr 1 once…
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…
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…
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…
Kahal’s Day At The Vaal KZN’s champion sire Kahal(GB) had a fantastic day at the Vaal on the sand track yesterday, with two of his progeny – The Mouseketeer and Rebel Queen – winning the Riverside Handicap Listed and the Nkosazana Stakes Listed. In what was a great day overall with six of the eight…
International News For KZN This Week News in from Coolmore is that Crusade’s talented half-brother by Henrythenavigator – G2 Railway Stakes runner-up Cristoforo Colombo – will be competing in the Gr 1 2000 Guineas. Following a post-racing gallop at the Curragh on Sunday evening, trainer Aidan O’Brien confirmed that three of his star Henrythenavigators were…
Passing Of Woodborough(USA) Rathmor Stud have reported the sad passing of their resident sire, Woodborough(USA), over the weekend. Mike McHardy said it was a very sad loss for Rathmor, describing Woodborough as being “very special.” Woodborough was the first stallion to stand at Rathmor Stud. An eye-catching chestnut stallion – very typical of a sprinter…
Black-Type Weekend For KZN-Breds: A.P. Arrow Off To Cracking Start Fairview on Friday saw the running of the East Cape Fillies Nursery Listed which included the second runner for young sire A.P. Arrow – Free Flight – finish in third place behind Winter Fantasy and Bursary. American Gr 1 winner A.P. Arrow is a three-quarter…
International Feat For Mogok(USA) Tba.co.za reports that “the Scott Bros’ resident sire Mogok has pulled off the impressive achievement of having sons nominated for both the 2013 Singapore Airlines International Cup and KrisFlyer International Sprint. “Meteor Mike (Mogok) is one of 72 horses nominated for the $1 000 000 Kris Flyer, with The Apache one…
Middlefield Stud: Byword(GB) Newsflash Middlefield Stud are pleased to announce that they have negotiated with Spendthrift Farms in Kentucky to use the ‘SHARE the UPSIDE’ breeding programme which offers a FREE LIFETIME BREEDING RIGHT as a bonus for the early support during the first few books at stud. Upon fulfilment of a few non-arduous conditions…
Bush Hill Stud Press Release: Boost For KZN Breeding The breeding ranks in KZN have received a major boost with a recent decision taken by the Tawny Syndicate and partners, to renew their support of breeding in Kwa-Zulu Natal. This move involves the relocation of the already proven and successful sire Toreador, and the introduction…
Another Gr 1 win for Broodmare Sire Extraordinaire Spectrum Sangster in New Zealand produced yet another Gr 1 win for Spectrum, again as a Broodmare Sire, in the Auckland Cup on Wednesday. New Zealand’s leading jockey Opie Bosson isn’t one for overly jubilant celebrations, but he couldn’t contain himself as he crossed the line onboard…
International Racing News For KZN Sires Plenty of international racing news relating to our local sires has emerged from the last week, involving recent new import Crusade(USA), Visionaire(USA), Just As Well(USA) and the deceased Second Empire(IRE). On 28 February Clearly Now, by Horse Greeley – himself out of Mr Greeley – won the Group 3…
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Another Gr 3 Winner For Miesque’s Approval Miesque’s Approval has sired yet another Grade 3 winner, with Scott Bros-bred Approval Rating taking home the first let of the Zimbabwean Triple Crown, the Grade 3 Zimbabwe Guineas, on Sunday at Borrowdale. The Scott Bros were recently back in the news again after their Gr 2 win…
International News From KZN Some exciting international news has come out – Chocolicious will possibly be sent to Frankel after her racing career in the UK, and Spectrum has yet another Group 2 winner with Sangster in New Zealand as a Broodmare Sire. Backworth-bred Grade 1 winner Chocolicious, recently purchased by Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock, is…
New Sire Crusade(USA) Out Of Quarantine KZN’s new speedy Group 1 winning stallion acquisition, Crusade(USA), has been released from the quarantine facility and has been received by Vaughn Marshall, where he will stay until he can be released (due to African Horse Sickness restrictions) and arrive at the Scott Bros for the coming season. Vaughn…
Ravishing Arrives At Midlands Thoroughbreds Manny and Mandy Testa of Midlands Thoroughbreds have announced exciting news, reporting the safe arrival of Ravishing at their Midlands Thoroughbreds farm in Mooi River, close to their business interest Midlands Saddle And Trout. Ravishing is owned by Mr & Mrs Robert Muir who successfully raced the eye-catching stallion. Only…
Local And International Gr 3 Success For King Of Kings KZN once again had significant success at Turffontein on Saturday, with a number of horses winning and placing in several Black Type races and news from Gulfstream Park in the USA – predominantly from King Of Kings and Spectrum. King’s Temptress, by King Of Kings,…
Kenyan Guineas Win For Sire Bezrin(USA) Westonian, bred by Yellow Star Stud, won the Kenyan Guineas last weekend at Ngong by 4.5 lengths from the second horse Wonnitestand, Shufti and Somerset. The bay son of Bezrin, who stands at Rathmor Stud, closely resembles his sire and was the hot favourite for the race, running just…
KZN’s Crusade(USA) Arrives In South Africa The KZN Breeders exciting new stallion addition, Group 1 winner Crusade, has arrived safely in Cape Town. The Middle Park Stakes winner will stay in quarantine for 30 days, before being moved to Vaughn Marshall’s yard where he will spend a few months before making the trip to the…
King’s Chapel(AUS) Update From Bush Hill Stud Warwick Render of Bush Hill Stud is proud to announce plenty of success as he gives a wrap-up of King’s Chapel’s breeding and racing season. “We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support of King’s Chapel in his second season at stud in…
A.P. Answer Related Zagora Wins Eclipse Female Turf Award Zagora, who carries a strong pedigree connection to resident Clifton Stud sire A.P. Answer, walked away with an Eclipse Award for Female Turf Horse. Zagora is by Green Tune(FR), a half-brother to the dam of A.P. Answer, Pas de Reponse. Bloodhorse.com reports that those who attempted…
Lion Tamer To Yellow Star Stud The recent sale of Avalon Stud has seen the Klawervlei-owned son of Western Winter, Lion Tamer, being relocated to Koos and Lorraine De Klerk’s Yellow Star Stud in Mooi River. Standing at 16hh, Lion Tamer is a good-looking, young and very athletic stallion – and the first to be…
Byword(GB) Documentary On Tellytrack This Week A documentary produced by Jimmy Lithgow on Byword(GB), an exciting new Group 1 winning stallion with a Timeform rating of 126, will be flighted on Tellytrack from tonight after the racing replays. It will be kept in the loop and repeated, as well as during the course of Wednesday…
British Gr 1 Winning Speed Horse Crusade(USA) To KZN For 2013 The KZN Breeders have secured an exciting addition to our stallion ranks, Group 1 winning Crusade(USA) from Coolmore – a 2009 colt by Mr Greeley(USA) out of La Traviata(USA) by Johannesburg(USA). Crusade has entered quarantine in the UK, in preparation for his arrival to…
Bezrin(USA) On Fire Bezrin is firing on all cylinders at the moment, with recent Listed winners Celtic Fire and Double Date taking victory in Port Elizabeth and Zimbabwe respectively, and Tetelestai winning the Pinnacle Stakes at Clairwood yesterday. Yvette Bremner’s gallant 6 year old Bezrin gelding, Celtic Fire, made it thirteen wins from his 40…
Press Release: See What You Have Missed: Damage Is Done The first handful of runners from Damage Is Done has produced two multiple winning fillies: Shattered Image (4 wins, R290 975 and 10 places, including second in the Emerald Fillies Hcp (L) and third in the Nkosazana Stakes (L)), and Tatters (3 wins, R167 625…
International Gr 1 Stats Bode Well For KZN’s Young Sires Racingpost.com has revealed interesting statistics regarding the top sires of worldwide Group/Grade 1 races, and it is exciting to have so much of this ‘young blood’ in KZN. The statistics include Group or Grade 1 winners from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain,…
Byword’s Dam Booked To Frankel In 2013 Juddmonte’s breeding plans for 2013 are still in the process of being finalised but it is expected that between 20 to 30 of their broodmare band will visit Frankel next season, reports racingpost.com. Those already pencilled in include their 2010 broodmare of the year Binche, dam of Group…
Fastnet Rock Colt Tops Karaka Sale Fastnet Rock, sire of the exciting young sire Curved Ball, is enjoying a tremendous season once again. Fresh off winning his first sires premiership, the son of Danehill is again in the headlines with a string of feature race winners, including the G1 winners Nechita and Sea Siren. A…
Fort Larned Breeders Cup Success For Local Sire Just As Well(USA) E Dubai, who falls under the second dam of Just As Well has sired another impressive Gr 1 winner with Fort Larned in the recent Breeders Cup Classic for a stake of $5 million. Fort Larned led from gate to wire and held off…
Group Winner For Bush Hill Sire King’s Chapel(AUS) Thoroughbred News reports that King Montrose (NZ) has claimed his ninth race victory, his first at stakes level, in the $100,000 Group 3 Lindauer Stewards Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton on Wednesday. Trained and part-owned by Neill Ridley, King Montrose (King’s Chapel x Dorrington) ran a tough race…
Green Moon Wins Melbourne Cup – The A.P. Answer Connection A.P. Answer’s dam-line continues International success with Green Moon who swept home to take the epic 3200m Emirates Melbourne Cup Gr 1. Green Moon is by Montjeu out of Green Tune mare Green Nune. Green Tune is out of Soundings, the second dam of A.P….
Kahal’s Cracking Weekend Kahal once again showed his domination over racing across South Africa with Festival Of Fire taking home her second consecutive Grade 3 win in the HSH Princess Charlene Of Monaco Starling Stakes at Turffontein on the weekend, beating Blue Ridge Mountain(ARG) by half a length over 1400m. Festival Of Fire was carrying…
All Eyes On Winchester For The Melbourne Cup KZN and Yellow Star Stud will be keeping a close eye on the upcoming Emirates Melbourne Cup Gr 1 to be run in Australia on Tuesday. Spectrum’s talented maternal grandson Winchester lines up in stall five to run in one of the world’s most prominent races over…
A.P. Answer Breeders Cup Success with Gr 1 Winning Zagora Zagora(FR) took the lead leaving the second turn and held off a tenacious Marketing Mix for a game victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (Gr. I) at Santa Anita Park 2 November. Zagora is by Green Tune(FR), a half-brother to the dam…
International Winners For Bezrin Bezrin is covering his first season back in KZN at Rathmor Stud with Manny Testa and Craig Ramsay reporting back on the son of Danzig’s winners in Mauritius and Zimbabwe. Manny of Midlands Thoroughbreds is excited to report that: “Double Date by Bezrin is racing for Midlands Thoroughbreds in Zimbabwe. After…
Solzhenitsyn(NZ) Places In Gr 2 For KZN’s St Petersburg(AUS) Coming off a Gr 1 victory in mid-October, Solzhenitsyn(NZ) has again placed third in a Gr 2 race in Australia. The colt out of a Victory Dance mare, placed in the Crystal Mile at Mooney Valley over 1600m just a length off the winner Silent Achiever…
Winning Start For Admire Main(JPN) Admire Main(JPN) appears to be off to a strong start with his first horses to race in Japan, it is exciting times ahead indeed for KZN and Summerhill Stud. From just 11 horses to race in Japan of Admire Main’s first and only overseas crop to race, three are already…
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…
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…
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…
Spectrum’s Winchester On Target For 2012 Melbourne Cup Spectrum’s maternal grandson, Winchester, is back in the limelight again. The four-time American-bred Gr 1 winning stallion has been bought by Rosemont Stud in Australia, destined for Australia’s biggest race, the Gr 1 Melbourne Cup. www.race.au reports that John Sadler’s imported Spring Cup hopeful, Winchester, is gearing…
King Of Kings’ Phenomenal Racing Weekend King Of Kings had an extraordinary racing weekend with strong performances from his progeny at both Turffontein and Scottsville. The son of Sadler’s Wells who led the National Two Year Old Sires list by Stakes Earned for the beginning of this year looks to be taking that title back…
Progeny Of KZN Sires Take Home East Cape Racing Awards, Including Horse-Of-The-Year The East Cape Racing Awards took place over the weekend, with three progeny of KZN’s resident sires taking home Awards, including Horse Of The Year. Mike Moon of tabonline.co.za reports that Lord Badger, Port Elizabeth’s standout horse for the 2011/12 season, has been…
British Grade 1 Winning Colt Destined For Middlefield Stud A farmer from the midlands and a businessman from Johannesburg have purchased one of the most exciting stallion prospects to come to this country, the entire will be arriving from Juddmonte Farms. A tough racehorse with a Timeform Rating of 126, Rob Pickering and Ashley McNabb…
Son Of Badger’s Drift Crowned Kenya’s Champion Three Year Old Colt HIH Wayne Kobusch Von Konigsberg of Wood-Moore Manor Stud has advised that Just Bluffing, a son of Badger’s Drift, has been crowned Kenya’s Champion Three Year Old colt for the 2012-2013 racing season. Just Bluffing produced a blistering win in April this year, to…
International Winners For Bush Hill Sire King’s Chapel(AUS) “While we were enjoying the [Bush Hill] Stallion Day and admiring King’s Chapel, he was busy having more winners,” reports Warwick Render of Bush Hill Stud. “A big thank you to all who managed to make it to the Stallion Day on Friday, it was a great…
Summerhill Sires Brochure 2012/2013 The annual Summerhill Sires 2012/2013 brochure is out with a beautiful photo of Brave Tin Soldier doing the honours on the front cover. Once again the quality is outstanding and the brochure makes for very interesting reading, containing the eight-time Champion breeders’ strong breeding and racing history – remembering the likes…
Spectrum – Irish Gr 3 Win As Broodmare Sire Spectrum has proved himself over again as a Broodmare Sire of some respect, with maternal grand-daughter Up by sire of the moment Galileo, winning at the Curragh on Sunday. The three year old filly out of Halland Park Lass took the Gr 3 Lanwades Stud Fillies’…
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day Bush Hill Stud held their annual Stallion Day on Friday afternoon on the warmest day Mooi River has seen in some weeks since the recent heavy snowfalls. The day saw an excellent turnout of prominent trainers and breeders from across the board, warmly welcomed by Warwick and Karin Render. Guests…
Stallion Feature: Kildonan Equus Champion Sprinter Kildonan joined Yellow Star Stud from the Cape earlier this year, the athletic dark bay stallion has been enthusiastically welcomed by breeders around KZN. Meeting Kildonan (named for a Scottish gold mine) to take some photos of him, he was a complete gentleman and watching him run loose in…
Hadlow Stud Welcome First Foal by Call To Combat Hadlow Stud have welcomed the first foal of Call To Combat, a colt which Cathy Martin describes as “a big strapping boy looks more like his dad than his mom! He is out of the All Fired Up mare Silent Heat. He was born at 11:45…
Kahal Leading National Sires Log By Stakes Earned Two of KZN’s stallions, and specifically Bush Hill Stud’s resident stallions Kahal and Newton, are in the top 10 National Sires Log (stats up to 13 August 2012) with Kahal securing the lead (stakes of R298 050) followed by Captain Al, Jallad, Var and KZN-bred Jet Master….
Bush Hill Stud Stallion Day 2012 Bush Hill Stud will be holding their annual stallion day on Friday 24 August at 12pm. Stallions on view will be Curved Ball(AUS), Kahal(GB), King’s Chapel(AUS) and Lion Tamer (from Avalon Stud). Curved Ball joins Bush Hill Stud for his debut breeding season. A son of Australian sire sensation…
New Stallions In KZN For 2012 Breeding Season An exciting season awaits KZN with ten new stallion acquisitions for the upcoming breeding season. Some farms have each received new stallions for the season – Hadlow have had stallions return to KZN such as Announce and Modus Vivendi, the other is Summerhill Stud with new sires’…
Graceland Farm Welcome First Visionaire Foal Alec Hogg of Graceland Farm has announced that the first foal by Summerhill’s exciting first season sire in South Africa, Visionaire, was born at Graceland last night in the cold, snowy conditions the Midlands has experienced over the last few days. “Dancing Gift delivered what we think is Visionaire’s…
Carpocrates’ Sibling Sold At Fasig-Tipton Select Sale Carpocrates had a three-quarter brother (Lot 96) sell at the Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling Sale yesterday for $650 000 to Whitehorse Stables. The chestnut colt is by Giant’s Causeway (by Storm Cat as is Carpocrates) out of champion racemare Spain, herself by Thunder Gulch. The yearling colt is a…
Yellow Star Stud Stallion Day 2012 Yellow Star Stud held their stallion day on Friday afternoon in magnificent weather conditions in Mooi River, well-attended by trainers and esteemed breeders and guests. Guests were warmly welcomed with drinks and a beautiful spread before the stallion parade with guests thoroughly enjoying themselves, staying on into the evening….
Press Release: Curved Ball(AUS) Bush Hill Stud and Spring Valley Stud, in conjunction with Klawervlei Stud, are excited to announce the arrival of Curved Ball to the KZN Stallion ranks. Curved Ball will stand at Bush Hill Stud for the 2012-13 season. One of the best bred and best performed horses of his generation, Curved…
Press Release: Shadwell Stud SHADWELL are pleased to announce the following arrangements for their stallions for the forthcoming Southern Hemisphere covering season in South Africa. KAHAL will stand at Bush Hill Stud at a fee of ZAR40,000 MALHUB will stand at Bush Hill Stud at ZAR4,000 Both horses have arrived at Bush Hill Stud today….
Modus Vivendi Arrives At Hadlow Stud Cathy Martin has advised that Modus Vivendi returned to KZN on Saturday from the Cape on behalf of St John Gray to their Hadlow Stud. Modus Vivendi is owned by Harold Muller. Cathy now has two new stallion additions for the season from the Cape, the other being Announce….
Yellow Star Stud Stallion Day Yellow Star Stud will be hosting a Stallion Day on 3 August at their farm in Mooi River at 3pm. Yellow Star will be introducing the exciting new stallion to the ranks, Kildonan, as well as Spectrum, Tropical Empire and Damage Is Done. Grade 1 Golden Horse Sprint record-holder Kildonan…
G1 Goldmine Pedigree Software Workshop Leo Tsatsaronis, the Managing Director of pedigree software programme G1 Goldmine, developed in his native Australia, presented a workshop on Monday evening at the Nottingham Road Hotel. Well attended by KZN Breeders’ and owners alike, it was a fascinating look at pedigrees – and what pricked everyone’s attention were what…
Placido Gets Another Group Place For Miesque’s Approval Yellow Star-bred Placido ran a third in the Grade 3 Champions Juvenile Cup for 2 Year Olds, at Fairview yesterday over 1400m. He becomes the second horse since Eton Square in the Grade 1 Vodacom Durban July (as well as a Grade 3) to add another Stakes…
Young KZN Sires Off To Strong Start The first two year old crops for Carpocrates and Mullins Bay have hit the tracks, and it is exciting times indeed. Carpocrates of Middlefield Stud, a stallion with one of the finest pedigrees in South Africa, from just 12 runners he has had three winners with four placings…
Stallion Feature: Strategic News(AUS) Strategic News(AUS) will be standing his third season at Rathmor Stud this year. The imposing chestnut stallion is the only son of Strategic and grandson of Grand Lodge standing at stud in South Africa, having his first crop of weanlings on the ground. Strategic News won a total of five times…
Press Release: Damage Is Done Damage is Done: If you missed Jet Master; here is your chance to make amends! Bred on the same lines as JET MASTER; by RAKEEN out of a grand-daughter of DAMASCUS; Damage is Done is a multiple winning, strong, well built son of Rakeen out of a winning black type…
Wood-Moore Manor Stud Press Release: Badger’s Drift Badger’s Drift up with the Top Sires in KZN with % of Graded / Group / Listed / Stakes WINNER’S :- 1st) WAY WEST 13% 2nd) BADGER’S DRIFT 12% 3rd) KAHAL 7% & MOGOK 7% The Official Stallion Rankings / Statistics – S.A. Racing Season 2011-2012 (01 August…
Somerset Stud – Thank You Vera and Alan Sutherland of Somerset Stud would like to convey to all the buyers and underbidders their grateful thanks for the solid support shown for the progeny of King Of Kings(IRE) at the recent Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale. “Our thanks to the King Of Kings Partnership and KZN Breeders…
Investec Summerhill Stallion Day 2012 A phenomenal racing week consisting of the Suncoast KZN Yearling Sales as well as the Vodacom Durban July race day was rounded off in style at the annual Investec Summerhill Stallion Day, traditionally held on the Sunday following the Vodacom Durban July. It was a cool morning on arrival at…
Announce Returning To Hadlow Stud “History speaks for itself so Announce is coming home,” said Jonathan Martin of Hadlow Stud, explaining that the stallion will arrive on Saturday 23 June. Announce will stand alongside his son Call To Combat and Jam Alley(AUS). Owned by Graystone Stud, Announce had previously resided at Craig Ramsay’s Golden Acres…
Press Release: Shadwell Stud KAHAL, MUHTAFAL and MALHUB to be relocated within Kwa Zulu Natal for the 2012 season. Shadwell Stud South Africa are pleased to confirm that their stallions Kahal, Muhtafal and Malhub will again be standing at stud this southern hemisphere season in Kwa Zulu Natal. They will not however be standing at…
Graded Stakes Winner For Miesque’s Approval Three year old Eton Square, bred by Scott Bros, won the first Group race for his sire, Miesque’s Approval on Sunday at Turffontein in the Grade 3 Betting World Jubilee Handicap. Eton Square is out of the mare Monroe by Model Man. He finished second in his debut run…
Summerhill Announce Second Stallion Acquisition For 2012, Traffic Guard(USA) While the sireline of the champion American stallion, Halo, is only sporadically represented in South Africa (Sunday Silence’s son, Admire Main, at Summerhill Stud, is a rare exception), it has suddenly made the spotlight through Gimmethegreenlight (by More Than Ready), a stand-out three year old of…
First Winner For Sire Mullins Bay Croke Park, bred by Somerset Stud, produced the first win for Mullins Bay(GB), standing at Summerhill Stud. This is Mullins Bay’s first crop to race. Croke Park sold for just R20 000 at the 2011 KZN Yearling Sale, and has earned almost R50 000 in his first start/win. It…
First Winner For KZN Sire Lion Tamer Lion Tamer, standing at Avalon Stud in the KZN Midlands, had his first winner in the second race for Maiden two year-old fillies at Scottsville over 1200 metres with Lady De Winter, trained by Wayne Badenhorst and ridden to victory by half a length by Karis Teetan. The…
Summerhill Introduce New Stallion To The Ranks, Golden Sword(GB) Continuing their policy of only standing stallions of quality racing class, South Africa’s Champion Breeders of the past seven consecutive seasons, Summerhill Stud, have acquired the 122 Timeform-rated son of High Chaparral, Golden Sword. While European racing fans will remember him for his consummate victory in…
Stallion Feature: King Of Kings(IRE) King Of Kings(IRE) has been in the news for much of this year for all the right reasons, starting off most of this year as the Leading National Sire of Two Year Olds by Stakes Earned. Surrounded by stallions whose service fees last year range from R60 000 – R150…
Miesque’s Approval Impressive Performance One of five stallions standing at Scott Bros Highdown Stud in Nottingham Road, Miesque’s Approval(USA), is justifying why he was voted KZN Breeders Award-winning Stallion Prospect Of The Year. The big imposing bay son of Miesque’s Son has had six winners in the last two weeks around the country, with four…
Spectrum One Of Great Britain’s Leading Broodmare Sires By Stakes Earned Spectrum, currently standing at Yellow Star Stud, is the second leading Broodmare-sire behind the great Sadler’s Wells when it comes to total prize money earned for the current UK/Irish racing season, reports racingpost.com. It is also interesting to note that his winners-runners percentage is…