The Apache: Equinome Testing
The Apache has been tested by Equinome, indicating that he is top class, with “Best Racing and Breeding genes” amongst the best in the world.
8th August 2016
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An insight into horse racing pedigrees. The genealogical breeding aspect that makes top class race horses.
The Apache has been tested by Equinome, indicating that he is top class, with “Best Racing and Breeding genes” amongst the best in the world.
On ratings this season’s 2yo fillies appear to be a vintage crop, well ahead of the male counterparts.
Juvenile filly Majmu retained her unbeaten record with a spectacular 8-length victory in the Gr2 SA Nursery
South Africa’s overseas campaigners feature prominently in Timeform’s Racehorses Of 2013
Times were tough, early in 1991. Hassen Adams’ breeding operation was far cry from his equine empire of today, cash-flow always an issue. And then along came Young Polly.
Gr1 SA Fillies Classic winner Athina flew up late to deny first leg winner Arcetri Pink
Gr2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas winner Arcetri Pink – first stakes winner for cross of world class sires
For Louis The King the second leg of the Triple Crown (Gr1 SA Classic over 1800m) must now be well in his sights after a 5-length victory in the Gr1 Gauteng Guineas
Breeders who race the majority of the horses which they breed can find that the youngsters which they sell are shunned by the marketplace
Kingmambo stallion Soar With Eagles has made a very good start to his stud career in Zimbabwe. At the same time his better-known brother Archipenko is getting himself established in England at one of the world’s premier studs (Lanwades).
The famous foundation mare Allegretta – ancestress of no less than nine winners of eighteen Gr1’s headed by six classics, two Prix de l’Arc de Triomphes, one King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. King’s Apostle’s pedigree represents the Allegretta x Sadler’s Wells cross that produced Galileo.
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
