“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…
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…
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…
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…