Who are Danehill’s heirs?
SARAH WHITELAW: Which of Danehill’s grandsons are showing promise of maintaining their grandsire’s tremendous influence?
12th June 2013
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SARAH WHITELAW: Which of Danehill’s grandsons are showing promise of maintaining their grandsire’s tremendous influence?
ROBYN LOUW: Racing owes the wonderful showcases that are The Oaks and the Epsom Derby to Edward Smith-Stanley, the 12th Earl of Derby.
SARAH WHITELAW: Mark Van Deventer is a welcome new face to the Tellytrack line up
ROBYN LOUW: Theo de Klerk notched up 6 winners on a single card on 21 June 1975 and Terrance Millard matched the feat with 6 winners on 13 January 1982.
SARAH WHITELAW: The winners of these contests shared a Germanic background and South Africa’s leading sire this season is the German bred Silvano.
The Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint is the feature attraction of a big day for SA racing at Scottsville on Saturday
ROBYN LOUW: Sunday, 12 May 2013. Fairview race track in Port Elizabeth provided the backdrop for a show of such unprecedented force that it has set a new South African record.
SARAH WHITELAW: When Farhh won Saturday’s Gp1 JLT Lockinge Stakes, he became the third offspring of outstanding British sire Pivotal to triumph in this top-level 1600m contest
SARAH WHITELAW: South Africa’s most successful “nick”. French 2000 Guineas Latest Star Descendant Of Legendary Mare;
ROBYN LOUW: Gitano Hernando first flashed across the radar before the 2011 Dubai World Cup, when he famously changed hands to the Chechen President.
SARAH WHITELAW: Bold Ruler was a truly great and remarkably dominant stallion, who became a potent sire of sires, and highly successful broodmare sire.
It will be good news for South African racing fans that, despite a number of offers from abroad, Gerald and Karen Kalil’s multiple champion Quid Pro Quo will continue her 3yo season on African soil
The son of Twice Over has been gelded and will be aimed at the Betway Gr1 Summer Cup, the L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the WSB Cape Town Met
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
The Ridgemont’s Kieswetter and Drakenstein’s Rupert families are major players in our horseracing and the Monmouth Park feature thus held more than a passing interest for many of us
