Riding Loony to Racetrack Excellence
Mary Slack: “I was a real horsey girl, a riding loony and my primary interest was riding. Racing came later, and the breeding later still.”
24th April 2014
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Mary Slack: “I was a real horsey girl, a riding loony and my primary interest was riding. Racing came later, and the breeding later still.”
It is one of life’s pities that we reward marketing before we reward excellence and quality is so often overlooked in favour of quantity
Varsfontein is a farm that patiently and carefully cultivates its broodmare band and it is a strategy that has been paying dividends.
Middlefield have a total of 6 yearlings (4 colts and 2 fillies). The one likely to draw the most interest is #111, a half-brother to Tippuana Moon by Var.
One of South Africa’s most consistent sires, Kahal has been represented by five stakes horses this season, including the top-class mare Classic Illusion. Currently eighth
Promising young sire Elusive Fort was represented by yet another first crop winner, when his son Elusive Shade won a good race at the Vaal
From just a handful of runners, Ideal World has been represented by 4 horses who have either won or finished in the money.
Along Came Polly (Judpot), a BSA graduate, scored the second Gr1 victory in the Gr1 L Jaffee Empress Club Stakes
One yearling on offer by leading US sire Stormy Atlantic – whose daughter Up With The Birds, was named Canada’s Horse Of The Year for 2013
Dazzling, a daughter of Galileo and a full-sister to G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Roderic O’Connor, hails from the same family as Lot 343 – a Mambo In Seattle filly.
A R1 million yearling at Nationals last week, and a maiden stakes winner on Sunday – Soqrat’s shares are on the up
Superlative Stakes winner and Classic-placed Gustav Klimt will stand at Heversham Park Farm in South Africa, having stood at Haras d’Annebault most recently
