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…