Royal Ascot – The Big Winners
Two South African connections in Mary Slack and the Kieswetter family’s Barnane Stud proudly featured on the table for Leading Owner at Royal Ascot
19th June 2022
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Two South African connections in Mary Slack and the Kieswetter family’s Barnane Stud proudly featured on the table for Leading Owner at Royal Ascot
Naval Crown charged up the stands’ rail on Royal Ascot Day 5 on Saturday to give Charlie Appleby a second victory in the feature Gr1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes,
In a sensational result for Drakenstein Stud’s four-time Gr1 winning resident sire and former SA Horse Of The Year Futura, the son of Dynasty produced the Drakenstein owned and bred exacta
A tactical move to include a pacemaker was probably the key to Summerveld trainer Frank Robinson winning the all-ages Gr3 Track & Ball Derby for the second time
Just 24 hours after Mary Slack won the Hampton Court with Claymore, the Kieswetter family of Ridgemont Highlands in the Cape made it another Royal Ascot celebration for South African connections
The Gr3 Hampton Court Stakes was supposed to be a coronation for The Queen’s Reach For The Moon but Mary Slack’s Claymore wasn’t having any of it
Kyprios is the new kid on the block after landing Gold Cup for record-breaking O’Brien…watch the replay here
The Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge last Saturday proved yet another Gr1 triumph for the Shadwell racing empire when homebred Al Muthana announced his arrival in the upper echelons
This reduces the entry to 33 in advance of final declarations which are due at 11h00 on Monday 20 June
On the eve of the 2022 renewal of the CTS Farm Yearling Sale at Kenilworth on Sunday, the linked contest for the class of 2021 ended in something of a media coup for the locally-based sales company
He provided trainer Joseph O’Brien with his first Royal Ascot victory as a trainer, a decade after he won the 2000m highlight as a jockey on So You Think
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
