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Trainer Paul Matchett has withdrawn Triple Tiara and Gr1 Woolavington 2000 champion War Of Athena from next month’s Gr1 Vodacom Durban July.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…