Breeding news from South Africa. Stallions, Mares Stud Farms and other essential information and news relating to thoroughbred horse breeding in South Africa.
A winner of the 2024 Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint and one of the most well-bred fillies around, the top-class October Morn has come up for sale by the Executor of the Estate of the late David Abery
The champagne corks were popping at the magnificent Owloon Horses in Paarl earlier this week when their 2024 Hollywoodbets Durban July winning broodmare Souk delivered a handsome and beautifully conformed Fire Away colt
Tragedy struck Suzette and Basie Viljoen’s fledgeling Wellington-based breeding operation Hopes And Dreams on Monday evening when the farm’s flagship mare and 2022 SA Horse Of The Year Captain’s Ransom reportedly died while giving birth
His four-year-old daughter Entrancement scored a career best in the Listed Beckford Stakes at Bath
The superstar mare renowned for her bold frontrunning style was crowned Australian Racehorse of the Year
The finish to Sunday’s Gr1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was dominated by progeny of Camelot and Sea The Stars
It is eerie to think that there would have been no Siren’s Call, Sound Of Warning, or for that matter Call To Unite, had fate not decreed that Enchanted Cove follow her dam to South Africa, and that Peter de Beyer had the foresight to return Elusive Fort back home from the States as well!
Thunderstruck has already covered 40 mares and is proving a true professional in the lush paddocks of the magnificent Robertson farm
When the Trippi filly Little Suzie broke her maiden at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday she became the first winner for her dam Oh Susanna
In the same week that her good son Call To Unite won the 2024 renewal of the Listed Settler’s Trophy, South African horseracing bid a sad farewell to the outstanding Siren’s Call
Drakenstein Stud has announced that champion Charles Dickens has had his first two mares scanned in foal
A dual Grade 1 winner and South Africa’s highest rated racehorse, the Vaughan Marshall trained One Stripe will campaign in a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam
A final field of 17 will face the starter at the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth 2000m marker on Saturday 25 January for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met
Two past winners of the Cape’s premier summer speed clash are in the fifteen strong line-up
