Breeding news from South Africa. Stallions, Mares Stud Farms and other essential information and news relating to thoroughbred horse breeding in South Africa.
Situated in the premier breeding area of SA, with its limestone-rich soils and proximity to the top stallions, Black Swan has consistently punched above its weight
Pacaya carries the Trippi flag in Saturday’s World Sports Betting Cape Town Met as bloodstock expert Robin Bruss continues with part 2 of the story of a champion and the Search for Greatness
Buffalo Bill Cody showed tremendous ability as a racehorse winning six of just ten starts – and reeling off six wins from his first seven starts
The countdown has begun to one of the crown jewels on the South African racing calendar
Julia Pilbeam’s Soetendal Estate has been an industry leader in the Ready To Run sales domain for over seventeen years and will be represented for the first time at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale next week
Star 4yo Charles Dickens has been retired and will take up stud duties at his place of birth, Drakenstein Stud from the 2024 season
Owned by Sidney Leung Kwun Wa, Super Commander has now won five times in Hong Kong
Continues to race for Drakenstein Stud for the rest of this season
The festive season is over, a new year has commenced, and John Everett of Narrow Creek Stud and Hendrik Winterbach Stud chat about the upcoming sale
When Charles Dickens won the 163rd renewal of the L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate on Saturday it was the 187th Stakes Win and 23rd Gr1 win for Drakenstein’s famous Champion Foundation Sire Trippi (USA)
When Charles Dickens romped home to win Saturday’s L’Ormarins Gr1 King’s Plate, he continued the tremendous run of form enjoyed by his sire Trippi
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
