Stallion Feature: Kildonan Equus Champion Sprinter Kildonan joined Yellow Star Stud from the Cape earlier this year, the athletic dark bay stallion has been enthusiastically welcomed by breeders around KZN. Meeting Kildonan (named for a Scottish gold mine) to take some photos of him, he was a complete gentleman and watching him run loose in…
Stallion Feature: Strategic News(AUS) Strategic News(AUS) will be standing his third season at Rathmor Stud this year. The imposing chestnut stallion is the only son of Strategic and grandson of Grand Lodge standing at stud in South Africa, having his first crop of weanlings on the ground. Strategic News won a total of five times…
Stallion Feature: King Of Kings(IRE) King Of Kings(IRE) has been in the news for much of this year for all the right reasons, starting off most of this year as the Leading National Sire of Two Year Olds by Stakes Earned. Surrounded by stallions whose service fees last year range from R60 000 – R150…
Stallion Feature: Rocky Street(AUS) Rob and Michele Pickering of Middlefield Stud have a young and exciting band of stallions, with the focus of this week’s stallion profile, the Australian import, Rocky Street. Rob explained what a lovely temperament Rocky Street has and we got to experience it first hand. After being assured that it was…
DIED FEBRUARY 2017 Stallion Feature: A.P. Answer(USA) Exciting new stallion A.P. Answer(USA) standing at Clifton Stud has just produced his first crop of foals, but his arrival at the farm was an interesting story – that the delete button on Peter Blyth’s keyboard almost prevented this eye-catching bay stallion by A.P. Indy from even…
Stallion Feature: Jam Alley(AUS) Arriving at Hadlow Stud to meet Jam Alley, it was the first day where the rain had come at last in Mooi River, and fortunately it held out long enough for our meeting and some photos with the big chestnut stallion. He had been standing inside his stable getting groomed and…
Stallion Feature: Mogok(USA) KZN Breeders Award Winner 2011 for Stallion Of The Year Mogok (named after a city in Burma) has proved himself to be a consistent stallion, and with his regal pedigree its not surprising. By Storm Cat out of Coup de Folie by Halo, he is the last foal out of champion race…
Stallion Feature: Just As Well(USA) Just As Well(USA) is a handsome new stallion standing his first season this year at Spring Valley Stud. By Sire-Of-Sires A.P. Indy out of No Matter What by Nureyev, Just As Well has all the makings to be a successful stallion based on his incredibly strong pedigree, and in addition…
Stallion Feature: King’s Chapel(NZ) King’s Chapel who was recently unveiled at Bush Hill Stud’s stallion day will be standing his first season at stud in South Africa this year. By King of Kings(IRE) out of Lower Chapel by Sharpo(GB) – he had 10 wins in New Zealand and Australia over 1200-1600m, and was Horse of…
Stallion Feature: Badger’s Drift As of 15 July Badger’s Drift topped the Stallions list for 3 year olds in South Africa, with an impressive strike rate of 73% for runners to winners. Badger’s Drift was Champion Freshman sire in 2007, and his progeny are continuing to be successful at the track. Act of Supremacy and…