Triple Crown Winner’s Influence Lives On
Nijinsky II, the last horse to win the English Triple Crown, was a truly outstanding stallion.
17th August 2016
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Nijinsky II, the last horse to win the English Triple Crown, was a truly outstanding stallion.
Drakenstein Stud’s resident sire, Trippi more than confirmed his status as one of the country’s elite stallions when he was crowned South Africa’s Champion Sire
Claiborne Farm based sire, Seeking The Gold, died last week at the advanced age of 31
The legacy of the late, great US sire, Storm Cat, has been felt the world over
Last week marked the anniversary of the death from cancer of one of history’s greatest stallions
South Africa’s current crop of 4yo fillies surely ranks as one of the best produced in this country for many a year
Former L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Gimmethegreenlight, currently South Africa’s Leading First Crop Sire for the season, is yet another exciting young sire from the Royal Charger male line
The world’s number one sire, Galileo, was once again to the fore at last week’s Royal Ascot meeting
This great festival has been graced by many outstanding subsequent sires and broodmares
The pedigree link uniting the two 2016 Epsom Classic winners comes via the great broodmare and former Arc winner, Urban Sea (Miswaki) – dam of both Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) and Sea The Stars (Cape Cross)
In this second of a new weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights
This time last week we were looking forward to the 163rd renewal of the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
