Breeding news from South Africa. Stallions, Mares Stud Farms and other essential information and news relating to thoroughbred horse breeding in South Africa.
Julia Pilbeam’s Soetendal Estate has been an industry leader in the Ready To Run sales domain for over seventeen years and will be represented for the first time at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale next week
Star 4yo Charles Dickens has been retired and will take up stud duties at his place of birth, Drakenstein Stud from the 2024 season
Owned by Sidney Leung Kwun Wa, Super Commander has now won five times in Hong Kong
Continues to race for Drakenstein Stud for the rest of this season
The festive season is over, a new year has commenced, and John Everett of Narrow Creek Stud and Hendrik Winterbach Stud chat about the upcoming sale
When Charles Dickens won the 163rd renewal of the L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate on Saturday it was the 187th Stakes Win and 23rd Gr1 win for Drakenstein’s famous Champion Foundation Sire Trippi (USA)
When Charles Dickens romped home to win Saturday’s L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate, he continued the tremendous run of form enjoyed by his sire Trippi
Should Beach Bomb prove up to the task on Saturday she will add yet another chapter to this important race’s rich history as only the second Paddock Stakes winner produced by a former winner
Drakenstein Stud’s exciting young stallion One World cemented his status as South Africa’s Leading First Season Sire of 2023-2024
When Nile The Boss won at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday, she became the 21st winner to have emerged from her sire Potala Palace’s current crop of three-year-olds
Newly-minted Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas winner Snow Pilot fittingly describes the adage ‘Breed the best to the best and hope for the best’. After all, he is by War Front’s Gr1 winning son Lancaster Bomber out of dual Gr1 winner Snowdance
After Saturday’s potentially gamechanging L’Ormarins King’s Plate day, a total of 28 thoroughbreds remain in contention for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
One World made good for master trainer Vaughan Marshall to give the Milnerton veteran his maiden success in the 164th renewal of the L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate courtesy of his son One Stripe at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday
