Daylami/Silvano 1-2 in Dubai Gold Cup
South African links are everywhere in Dubai, as stallions Daylami and Silvano feature in Dubai’s longest race.
10th March 2011
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A look at stallions and their progeny impact horse racing industry.
South African links are everywhere in Dubai, as stallions Daylami and Silvano feature in Dubai’s longest race.
What a weekend! Trippi’s 3yo daughter R Heat Lightning wins a G2 by seven lengths at Gulfstream Park, the same track where 3yo colts Travelin Man and Gourmet Dinner have seconds in two other G2 races.
Trippi stands at Drakenstein Stud in the Cape now, his first local crop are yearlings.
The stallion services charity auction at the annual pre-Met Cocktails & Racing evening grossed R912k.
Here’s the list of those who contributed for 2011
THUNDER ROAD H. (G3)
Santa Anita Park, February 5, $100,000, 4yo & up, 8fT, firm, 1:33.77.
Trippy filly Trip for A.J. avenged a heart-breaking setback at the hands of Horse Chestnut mare Askbut I Won’ttell last time out when she scored a half-length upset over her nemesis in Saturday’s $300,000 Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park.
Albert Hall was credited with his first success as a sire when colt Alberts Vigilance won at the third time of asking over 1000m at Kenilworth
Much-travelled Black Minnaloushe shuttled between the USA and New Zealand before being acquired to stand in South Africa and was credited with his first locally-bred winner when colt Nine Tail Cat made an emphatic winning debut over 1000m at Scottsville
Trippi’s 2yo filly R Heat Lightning, has been nominated the Eclipse Awards Champion 2yo filly in North America. Winner of the Gr1 Spinaway Stakes in the US, R
Miesque’s Approval became the first of the current group of freshman sires to be credited with a two-year-old winner when colt Top Of The Chocs easily made a successful debut over 1000m at Clairwood on Sunday.
Horse Chestnut, whom many consider the greatest thoroughbred racehorse to ever set foot on the South African turf, will lead the horses out for the Grade 1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate on January 8. It will be the first time he has returned to the scene of his finest hour, Kenilworth Racecourse, where he not only performed the rare feat of winning the J&B Met as a three-year-old, but passed the post eight lengths clear, writes David Thiselton.
James McDonald closed a highly successful short-term stint in Hong Kong with a quartet at Sha Tin on Sunday
