No Secrets From Ascot Stud
Ascot Stud’s Ashley Parker will be offering yearlings by a host of different stallions at the BSA 2024 KZN Yearling Sale
21st June 2024
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Ascot Stud’s Ashley Parker will be offering yearlings by a host of different stallions at the BSA 2024 KZN Yearling Sale
The Sandringham Summit syndicate have decided to retire the top 3yo from racing to stand at Varsfontein this season
‘Future Pearl is by Futura, who never won beyond 2000m, yet is quietly adding his name to the list of stallions capable of siring horses with a touch of stamina’
In the battle of the 2000 Guineas winners at Royal Ascot on Tuesday, it was the Richard Hannon-trained Rosallion who came out on top
Summerview Stud’s quartet is made up of lots sired by champion sprinter Captain Of All, Japanese star Danon Platina and the consistently successful Master Of My Fate
Varsfontein-bred filly gives her sire One World the honour of equalling his Dad Captain Al’s first-season sires record of 22 juvenile winners
Few would have predicted the fireworks that ensued with Amo Racing, Emmanuel de Seroux and Amanda Zetterholm trading blows for the beautifully bred filly
We will see plenty of Dubai Racing Carnival visitors on course all of the five days, and when the meeting gets underway today at 15h30
Small fields often beget a race of tactics and five-time Singapore champion jockey Manoel Nunes pulled off a masterful ride on Ghalib
‘This is why we’re in the game, it’s all about Group 1 racing and these are the ones we want all the time’ – Mike de Kock
Broodmare daughters of Varsfontein Stud’s late Nureyev sire Caesour continue to make their mark in races across Southern Africa
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
