Saffers Ready To Make A Comeback Stateside!
‘Hopefully Isivunguvungu is the first of many’ – Mike de Kock
12th September 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.
‘Hopefully Isivunguvungu is the first of many’ – Mike de Kock
Like Isivunguvungu, What A Winter won both the Gr1 Computaform Sprint and Gr1 Mercury Sprint, and was also victorious in two runnings of the Gr1 Cape Flying Championship
His arrival from the quarantine station in George is expected on or about 18 September
Expert Eye can now call himself king of the castle when holding court at Paardeberg Stud in South Africa
Galileo’s influence was once again well and truly felt this past weekend, when he made his mark all over the world in days, and not for the first time
‘The Breeders Cup Distaff is definitely still on the cards and Beach Bomb will probably have one more race before then’ – Gaynor Rupert
In-form Cape stallion Pathfork (Distorted Humor) hails from an outstanding family, and his half-brother, War Of Will (War Front), is doing his bit to keep his famous family in the news
Ridgemont’s Gr1 Computaform Sprint winning sire Rafeef has started the new season with a flyer and enjoyed three winners on the trot at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday
Expert Eye’s first crop raced in 2022 and with 22 individual juvenile winners to his credit, he ended the season as England’s fourth leading freshman sire
Mill Princess, fourth dam of local stallion The United States, is a mare who continues to make her presence felt around the world
‘I am writing this as an older, small breeder and in our language, Markus, because this is our war. If I phoned you, I’d be overwhelmed by business jargon within a minute. What makes you so angry that you don’t care what you are doing to our shaky industry? How do you deal with this in your inner, quiet self?’
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!
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
