Visionaire Filly Flies
Summerhill Stud’s exciting stallion Visionaire produced his first South African winner courtesy of the impressive Scottsville Sunday first race runaway victress Royal Pleasure
19th January 2015
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Summerhill Stud’s exciting stallion Visionaire produced his first South African winner courtesy of the impressive Scottsville Sunday first race runaway victress Royal Pleasure
Greeff enjoyed a red-letter day with grand total of 4 winners (Dancinginthedesert under Charles Ndlovu dead-heated with Redsailinthesunset to win the seventh race), while Richard Fourie and Justin Snaith enjoyed a double. Grant Van Niekerk also rode two winners.
The sales-topper was a beautifully balanced colt – the only Var on the sale!
While covering a mare on Sunday, Summerhill’s second-season sire Await The Dawn succumbed to a freak accident which cost him his life
Some complain that trainers will put their horses under too much pressure, others that races of this nature distort the national statistics. To hell with it. We’ve done our best to lift the game to where it’s never been before…
Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley Bloodstock was the biggest buyer, closely matched by the American couple, Gary and Mary West, who signed for 29 head at $7.805 million. To put that into a local context, South Africans Markus Jooste and Bernard Kantor’s spend at the Arqana sale in France last month, was not far short in Euros
Unlike the majority of the bigger studs, there is no big business behind Summerhilll; there is a financial imperative to everything we do in order to survive, and that applies to many of our colleagues and most of our clients on the farm
Susan Rowett was not surprised by the attraction of CTS’s guaranteed payment to vendors, but added that in an industry that virtually had a culture of non-payment, the costs to the company can quickly compound
If you like horses and people and think all the rest is dross, then make sure you extend your next July visit, take a meander to the Midlands and stay for the Winter Workshop
90 entries hold tickets for the nation’s richest horse race, the R4-million Ready To Run Cup this November.
The Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup is only up for its 7th renewal, but already it has carved an enviable niche in the annals of our game.
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
