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,…
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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…