Spectrum Grandson One To Watch
Dutch Art, a maternal grandson of the Yellow Star Stud based Spectrum, is one of Britain’s most exciting young stallions
12th February 2014
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Dutch Art, a maternal grandson of the Yellow Star Stud based Spectrum, is one of Britain’s most exciting young stallions
For the first time in my week’s stay here in the Emirates, the sun is shining and it really is the most beautiful day. All set for Variety Club to step out in Dubai on Thursday evening
The 2014 J&B race meeting was a triumph for locally bred stallions. All three of the day’s Gr1 winners were sired by SA bred stallions.
Glimpses into the lives and times of racing’s heyday through the eyes of those who experienced them, are incredibly rare
Highlands have announced the death of one of South Africa’s most successful and influential sires of the past two decades, National Assembly
Joey Ramsden has caught the Met Fever too and he rates his charge to run a big race
Some Cape Flying Championship history and a horse called Alnwick
The death of former leading first season sire, Tiger Ridge, is a setback to the South African breeding industry.
Capetown Noir, winner of Saturday’s Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, gave his late, great sire, Western Winter, a 4th win in the Queen’s Plate
The extraordinary story of Chad Little’s comeback to race riding at the age of 40 in November last year after teetering on the brink of the abyss of a nearly wasted life, received a Netflix-type boost at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Saturday
Oh Susanna and her stakes winning paddock pals are not only continuing to add to the burgeoning Drakenstein trophy cabinet through their progeny, they are also establishing powerful female dynasties which should serve the stud well in years to come
A bright and exciting future for horse racing in South Africa is on the horizon – that was the underlying message to emerge as the birth of South Africa’s new age coastal racing operator was celebrated at the official launch of the Race Coast brand
Some 23 years after booting home his first victory in August 2002 at Clairwood Park, Sean Veale reached the milestone of his first century of winners in a season at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday
