Breeding news from South Africa. Stallions, Mares Stud Farms and other essential information and news relating to thoroughbred horse breeding in South Africa.
Should Beach Bomb prove up to the task on Saturday she will add yet another chapter to this important race’s rich history as only the second Paddock Stakes winner produced by a former winner
Drakenstein Stud’s exciting young stallion One World cemented his status as South Africa’s Leading First Season Sire of 2023-2024
When Nile The Boss won at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday, she became the 21st winner to have emerged from her sire Potala Palace’s current crop of three-year-olds
Newly-minted Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas winner Snow Pilot fittingly describes the adage ‘Breed the best to the best and hope for the best’. After all, he is by War Front’s Gr1 winning son Lancaster Bomber out of dual Gr1 winner Snowdance
The Robertson-based breeding operation sponsored the Ridgemont Gr3 Peninsula Handicap and celebrated four winners on the major race day
Winner of the Listed Schweppes Cape Oaks earlier in the year, Saartjie added further gloss to her resume when landing the first graded win of her career at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday
History shows that the Cape Guineas has a deserved reputation as a ‘sire making’ race
A stakes winner at two, three and four, One World has seven lots on offer at the 2024 Cape Racing Premier Yearling Sale Powered By Tattersalls
Marianne has long been a small breeder whose horses tend to surprise – for she breeds warriors aimed at the racetrack if not for the sales ring
Avontuur’s well-bred young stallion Talk Of The Town got off the mark when his two-year-old daughter Famous Lady won the second race at Turffontein on Tuesday
Champion Sandringham Summit will return to his birthplace Varsfontein Stud for stallion duties at the conclusion of his racing career
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
