Potala Palace On Fire
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
24th December 2023
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Breeding news from South Africa. Stallions, Mares Stud Farms and other essential information and news relating to thoroughbred horse breeding in South Africa.
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
The Robertson-based breeding operation sponsored the Ridgemont Gr3 Peninsula Handicap and celebrated four winners on the major race day
Winner of the Listed Schweppes Cape Oaks earlier in the year, Saartjie added further gloss to her resume when landing the first graded win of her career at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday
History shows that the Cape Guineas has a deserved reputation as a ‘sire making’ race
A stakes winner at two, three and four, One World has seven lots on offer at the 2024 Cape Racing Premier Yearling Sale Powered By Tattersalls
Marianne has long been a small breeder whose horses tend to surprise – for she breeds warriors aimed at the racetrack if not for the sales ring
Avontuur’s well-bred young stallion Talk Of The Town got off the mark when his two-year-old daughter Famous Lady won the second race at Turffontein on Tuesday
Champion Sandringham Summit will return to his birthplace Varsfontein Stud for stallion duties at the conclusion of his racing career
We absolutely have to be importing more – and better – stallions. Until that happens, we could be making better use of the stallions we have, especially the ones of known ability
Heversham Park Farm has purchased Byword (Peintre Celebre) the winner of the Gr1 Prince of Wales Stakes at Bloodstock SA’s December online auction
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
At the age of 93, Mr Ferraris is still active in racing as a training consultant, and he takes great joy in following the career of his grandson, Luke Ferraris, a successful jockey in Hong Kong
The starting stalls stuck on the Fairview polytrack capped a mostly forgettable week for South African horseracing when the Nelson Mandela Bay Racing fixture ground to a dismal halt on Friday
