Broodmare Roses For Lizzy pulled off a rare feat for breeder Bruce Le Roux, producing three winners in one week and included in that result a double on Sunday at Hollywoodbets Greyville. The National Emblem mare seems to produce a stamp amongst her progeny and all by different sires – whilst none of them are…
Sandre Trethewey’s pretty chestnut mare Wysiwyg will be represented by two runners on Sunday’s Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint Day. The chestnut mare is resident on Sandra’s budding horse stud and flower farm in New Hanover, outside of Pietermaritzburg and she has a smashing son of Act Of War who has recently been weaned. Wysiwyg hasn’t…
Cathy Martin of Hadlow Stud has given us an update on First Arrival at Hadlow Stud and the mighty mare’s daughter who has joined her, currently in foal to Visionaire. Both mares are owned by Anne and Bruce Nicholas of Hallmark Thoroughbreds. First Arrival is worthy of a Broodmare Of The Year accolade – the…
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…
“I bought Pas De Basque from a girl based in Johannesburg who had her as a riding horse – a mutual friend had advised that she was looking for a home for Pas De Basque. She was not the easiest broodmare to manage when it came to stud duties, and was retired from breeding altogether – she either reabsorbed or kept aborting her foetuses.”
The big quiet bright bay mare who was voted KZN Breeders Broodmare Of The Year in 2011, is fast establishing herself a dynasty with six daughters acquired by leading Thoroughbred nurseries in both South Africa and overseas – going on to produce six winning progeny between them, including in Ireland and more recently a Listed winning juvenile at Fairview – Queen Forever on Friday, whilst her grandson So Var won at Turffontein this week.
Kjell Foundation have enjoyed brilliant success from their small band of Thoroughbred mares, and Al Vino looks to be another mare to potentially fill the shoes of the late and great Salaam – the type of broodmare that comes along once in a lifetime and can almost visit the stable teaser to produce a Group…
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.
Gr3 Place For Admiral’s Eye: Four Black Types For Dam Surfers Eye The best performed daughter of Admire Main to date, Admiral’s Eye, added yet more Bold Black Type to her pedigree by placing third in the Gr3 Flamboyant Stakes at Greyville behind Same Jurisdiction – the latter a Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale graduate. Admiral’s…
Broodmare Feature: Vogue Vogue is an attractive chestnut mare standing at Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud, and they would never have owned her were it not for a package deal arrangement. By Model Man out of Thousand Nights by Foveros, she descends from a phenomenal dam-line and she is passing this on to her…
Broodmare Feature: Crystal Clear Although she never raced, Crystal Clear has made a cracking start to her career as a broodmare at Rob and Michele Pickering’s Middlefield Stud, producing outstanding progeny including four runners and three winners. Clear Creek, Crystal Clear’s dam was acquired under unusual circumstances. “Clear Creek was owned, raced and bred by…
Broodmare Feature: Emperor’s Dance KZN Breeders Award Winner – Broodmare Of The Year 2012 Who would have thought that a mare, destined for a dispersal sale, would end up the dam of a champion? “Emperor’s Dance as a filly in training was with a top trainer in KZN but the trainer told the owner he…
Broodmare Feature: Gypsy Queen KZN Breeders Award Winner – Broodmare Of The Year 2011 With Gypsy’s Warning challenging her title for the Matriarch Stakes Grade 1 on 25 November and recently being in the media for selling at the Keeneland November Sale for a price of $1.05 million, we have a look at her dam…
Broodmare Feature: Pelican Brief Pelican Brief stands at Spring Valley Stud, and is expecting a Mullins Bay foal this season. She is an unassuming pretty bay mare, with two white stockings behind. She also happens to be the dam of the Mike Bass trained Dunford, the 2005 Vodacom Durban July winner. Foaled in 1992, Pelican…