Jill Fox of The Fort Stud in Fort Nottingham has sent through a few photos of the foals born on her farm this season.
Jill specialises in pretraining of horses, and provides the service of spelling, sales preparation and boarding of mares.
Jill has foals by Silvano, Black Minnaloushe, Noble Tune, Toreador, Mogok and former resident sire King Of Kings.
You might have expected it in normal times when a major stud farm was disposing of its stock, but in what has been dubbed “South Africa’s deepest online sale of Thoroughbreds”, you would be pleasantly encouraged by the scale of the internet traffic the Summerhill dispersal has attracted, more so with the government’s opening of…
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…
Pre-training a Racehorse – Jane Thomas Jane Thomas of Far End Stables has worked in the SA Racing Industry since 1990. She held an open trainer’s license with the National Horse Racing Authority from 1990 – 2000. Jane’s success in the racing world and her ability to understand the fundamentals of South African racing led…
Former Summerhill sire Traffic Guard has two five year olds keeping his name in lights, with five year old mare Aquae Sulis having found smart recent form, and the ever consistent 5yo gelding Chatterton’s Keeper both achieving six wins each. By super sire More Than Ready, Traffic Guard raced until the age of six successfully…
History will be made at the 2018 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, when Lot 336 comes into the ring.
This flashy grey Judpot colt is the first yearling ever sold at the National Sale by Bush Hill Stud grooms.
A R25 000 graduate off the BSA 2017 National 2YO Sale, bred and consigned by Bruce Le Roux of Spring Valley Stud, Sweet Empress came bounding through to win a brave race from Varsfontein’s American Express with Anton Marcus aboard. Craig Zackey rode a perfect race aboard the Curved Ball half-sister to Gr2 Drill Hall…