Breeding news from South Africa. Stallions, Mares Stud Farms and other essential information and news relating to thoroughbred horse breeding in South Africa.
The Kieswetter family’s Tipperary-based Barnane Stud produced another terrific home-bred winner, and a boost for their exciting blue-blooded speed demon sire Real Gone Kid, at Wolverhampton on Monday evening
Descendants of the late champion Giant’s Causeway more than made their mark in major races around the world on Saturday
The high-rolling Rafeef roadshow continued at Turffontein on Saturday when Ridgemont Highlands’ rampant Gr1-winning son of Redoute’s Choice celebrated his 11th stakes winner courtesy of the undefeated Leaving Las Vegas’ eyecatching score
Western Winter really made his presence felt at Turffontein on Saturday, with the former multiple champion sire impressing yet again as both a sire of sires and broodmare sire
The main protagonists appear to be Lancaster Bomber and Fire Away, who are currently engaged in a titanic tussle, with little separating them as far as earnings are concerned
‘That South Africa’s most successful taproot mare Drohsky continues to exert her influence beyond our borders was underlined last weekend
Although, by his own lofty standards Silvano has yet to dominate he has become a regular top ten damsire since 2017, finishing as high as fifth place in the past two seasons
Multiple champion sire Tapit continues to make his mark, and the son of Pulpit was at it again this weekend, all over the world
Trainer Corne Spies is quietly confident that 4yo William Robertson will acquit himself well in Saturday’s R400 000 WSB Gr2 Hawaii Stakes
There was a time when the ambition of every respectable breeder was to get their hands on a broodmare from the ‘Millie’ family
Owner Suzette Viljoen announced on Saturday that her star filly Captain’s Ransom is to retire from racing with immediate effect
The charge originated from comments made by Jockey van Niekerk during a post-race interview following the running of Race 2 at Hollywoodbets Durbanville Racecourse on Wednesday 26 March
American Gr1 winner Raging Torrent provided trainer Doug O’Neill a second consecutive running of the Godolphin Mile and third overall
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
