Drakenstein Sires To The Fore In 2023
Drakenstein Stud sires have had a wonderful run of things this year
9th May 2023
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A look at stallions and their progeny impact horse racing industry.
Drakenstein Stud sires have had a wonderful run of things this year
With his third season at stud looming, Talk Of The Town, the first son of the late champion sire VAR (USA) to stand as stallion at stud, will be returning to home soil
Real Gone Kid has an international standard pedigree that wouldn’t be out of place in any stallion barn around the world
An Equus Champion 2yo Colt of his year, multiple Gr1-winner Soqrat has settled in well at Sandown Stud in the Western Cape where he is in his second season
Owned and run by Warwick and Karin Render, the stud has been a successful commercial operation for over forty years
‘Only the best horses win the biggest races. Just one or two of such winners in a hundred sets you way apart from the also-rans in the great genetic lottery’
The handsome colt is out of the star broodmare First Arrival – the dam of two Equus Award winners
A son of five times champion South African sire Silvano, is set to retire to studn.
The Normandy Stud-bred Miss Putin scored the surprise in the second race at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Wednesday
Retirement marks the end of a significant era in the world of thoroughbred racing and breeding
‘Full circle’ for Captain Vaughan Marshall as Klawervlei bred colt impresses
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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
