Breeding news from South Africa. Stallions, Mares Stud Farms and other essential information and news relating to thoroughbred horse breeding in South Africa.
In years gone by, the only other stallions to have captured the July/Met double with different horses in the same season were Royal Prerogative with Mark Anthony (Met) and Royal Chalice (July) in 1988, and Silvano who sired Martial Eagle (Met) and Heavy Metal (July) in 2013
On Saturday Bless My Stars, Time Flies, Silver Darling and Rain In Holland are the proverbial roses amongst the thorns
He’s never been tried over further and who knows, the staying influence of both Doowaley and Saumarez may well come to the fore
Recent Gr3 Track And Ball Derby winner Runaway Song (Legislate), a fancied runner in Saturday’s Gr3 Dstv Gold Vase, is yet another feather in the cap of his broodmare sire Spectrum
‘He was the type of horse that took charge, led the pack and caught the eye of every astute horseman…’
Capetown Noir (SAF) has joined Jackson (SAF) and Moofeed (AUS) as a resident stallion at Advocate Nigel and wife Kat Riley’s Heversham Park
Grey Angel was imported with her dam, the Seattle Slew mare Seattle Sway, by one of the more colourful characters of that era, Dr Hilda Podlas
A catch-up with a top sprinter who has adjusted with aplomb to her second phase career as a broodmare
It was the best of times…these words famously open Charles Dickens’ historical novel A Tale Of Two Cities and more than define the success enjoyed this season by Drakenstein Stud
Gimmethegreenlight registered his 55th stakes winner on Saturday when his son won the Listed The Sharks Gatecrasher Stakes
The handsome bay colt boasts a pedigree that equals his good looks and race record,
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
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
