Sandringham Summit – Service Fee Announced
Sandringham Summit has only once in his 11 starts finished out of the first two places and has nothing more to prove as he looks forward to his stud career
10th May 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.
Sandringham Summit has only once in his 11 starts finished out of the first two places and has nothing more to prove as he looks forward to his stud career
Outstanding sire Invincible Spirit enjoyed a remarkable last weekend
‘In seven seasons in SA, Time Thief has sired an average of less than 30 foals per crop, a sad indictment and just another example of a stallion who has fallen through the cracks’
Winterbach-based sire Master Archie, the first son of Rafeef to retire to stud, has seen two of his half-brothers win in just over a week of each other
Last Saturday’s TAB Listed Gold Bowl winner Crimson King (Dynasty) hails from one of the most enduring families in the studbook
The law of averages dictates that not every filly will end up a champion or stakes winner
A brilliantly fast son of Ridgemont’s resident standout Rafeef, the four-year-old Thunderstruck most recently emulated his sought after sire when he claimed top honours in the Gr1 Computaform Sprint
The champion farm have decided to retire their home bred son of Frankel
Gr3 Champagne Stakes winner Winter Cloud’s female line may be totally British, yet it has enjoyed a good deal of success in this country
Fastnet Rock, Champion Sire in Australia in 2011-2012 and 2014-2015, has established himself as a truly top-class broodmare sire
The half-brother to equine superhero Frankel got off the mark in promising style in Tuesday’s Alex Scott Maiden Stakes
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
