Bright Future For Hadlow Orphans
The highs equal the lows and every breeding season has its challenges, but for two foals at Hadlow Stud who have overcome difficulty, the future looks bright indeed
15th October 2023
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The highs equal the lows and every breeding season has its challenges, but for two foals at Hadlow Stud who have overcome difficulty, the future looks bright indeed
Barely days after champion Mrs Geriatrix stretched her unbeaten record to six wins from as many starts, breeders Clifton Stud welcomed her new half-brother into the world
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Cold As Ice was bred by Avontuur Stud and was an R875 000 purchase on the 2013 Cape Premier Yearling Sale Book 1
The most expensive yearling sold in Europe so far this year!
The hugely influential Gr1 July Cup winning Green Desert really made his mark in major races across the world on Arc weekend
Drakenstein Stud and the shareholders in Gold Standard have decided to give the son of Champion Sire Trippi a new opportunity at the historic Vogel Vlei Stud
Global View’s four winners won from distances of 1000 metres to 2600 metres, with the beautifully-bred stallion producing winners on both turf and polytrack, and at all of Turffontein, Hollywoodbets Greyville and Fairview in this spell
Sally Bowles, a daughter of London News, featured as the dam of Lady Radner, a facile winner of the Gr3 Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs last weekend
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
