Our #KZN Bred heroine Rachel Venniker got the Rest Of The World team off to a perfect start with a win on Holkham Bay in the Shergar Cup at Ascot.
You can read all about Rachel’s victory and the race via the At The Races –https://www.attheraces.com/…/rachel-venniker-makes…
A respected business lady in Johannesburg who also owns a farm in the beautiful Birnamwood area outside of Howick, Ms Mlonzi made the news when she sold her Master Of My Fate filly, Master Keys, at the National Yearling Sale in 2017 for R100 000 to Nathan Kotzen, becoming the first black lady to do so in the history of the National Yearling Sale. Master Keys won impressively on debut yesterday at Scottsville.
Winter School 2015: Wise Men Seek To Understand Those of us who’ve attended the School Of Equine Management Excellence’s annual Winter Workshop will know what it means for the South African racing and breeding industries. There is no other annual forum like it anywhere in the world, and the calibre of speakers has been simply…
Jockey Morne Winnaar will take a slender one point lead over Billy Jacobson into the final of “Levelling The Playing Fields Series” on Sunday, 25 June 2017. After winning rounds 1 and 2, Jacobson did not fare too well in the draw for Round 3 and his charge Roy’s Power could only finish 5th. Winnaar’s fourth placing on Royal Agree on Sunday was enough to reverse a one-point deficit into a one-point lead in their chase for the R50 000 bonus for the leading jockey of the Series.
“As an owner, if you don’t get a thrill out of owning a racehorse you’re missing the plot.” That’s was the view of Anton Procter (76), one of the doyens of South African horseracing, who died on Saturday after a short battle with cancer. Gold Circle’s Andrew Harrison writes that Procter was not a man to…
Fortitude leads the KZN Breeders Series Log for horses 3YO’s and up, as of 7 March.
Futura Places In Gr2 Green Point Futura finished third to Vodacom Durban July winner Legislate in the Gr2 Green Point Stakes on the weekend, the same day he was crowned KZN Breeders Outstanding Three Year Old Colt and Outsanding Middle Distance Male. Bred by Guy Murdoch and born at Yellow Star Stud, he finished just…