Famous Family To The Fore
Normandy Stud’s founding mare Terpsichore played a big role at Turffontein on Classic Day
9th March 2024
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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.
Normandy Stud’s founding mare Terpsichore played a big role at Turffontein on Classic Day
Ridgemont have announced a very exciting boost to their stallion band with the arrival this season of world-class miler and US Grade 1 winner Hit The Road
The various directions that families and bloodlines can take when different aptitudes and approaches combine is a never-ending source of fascination, yet blood will out!
The catalogue for the 2024 BSA National Yearling Sale is now available online
Pomp And Power, a Gr1 winning son of Vercingetorix, has now settled down beautifully at Heversham Park
The son of Storm Cat is the broodmare sire of the brilliant Wilgerbosdrift Gr1 SA Fillies Classic winner Gimme A Nother (Gimmethegreenlight), and is also damsire of exciting two-year-old Pistol Pete (Buffalo Bill Cody)
When Senor Buscador won Saturday’s $20 000 000 Saudi Cup, he not only picked up the first Gr1 victory of his career, but he also shone the spotlight on his sire Mineshaft (A.P. Indy)
Querari gained another handsome boost to his pedigree page when his close nephew Spirit Dancer won the $2 million Gr2 Howden Neom Turf Cup
Drakenstein Stud announced earlier this week that Irish Champion Sprinter A Case Of You is in transit to South Africa and will join their high-class stallion arsenal
One of the greatest stallions in history, and a proven sire of sires, Galileo has, almost inevitably, become an outstanding broodmare sire
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
It’s time for our racing regulators to accept and understand that they are part of the game, and not outside of it, above it, or bigger than it
