A look at stallions and their progeny impact horse racing industry.
With his third season at stud looming, Talk Of The Town, the first son of the late champion sire VAR (USA) to stand as stallion at stud, will be returning to home soil
Real Gone Kid has an international standard pedigree that wouldn’t be out of place in any stallion barn around the world
An Equus Champion 2yo Colt of his year, multiple Gr1-winner Soqrat has settled in well at Sandown Stud in the Western Cape where he is in his second season
Owned and run by Warwick and Karin Render, the stud has been a successful commercial operation for over forty years
‘Only the best horses win the biggest races. Just one or two of such winners in a hundred sets you way apart from the also-rans in the great genetic lottery’
The handsome colt is out of the star broodmare First Arrival – the dam of two Equus Award winners
A son of five times champion South African sire Silvano, is set to retire to studn.
The Normandy Stud-bred Miss Putin scored the surprise in the second race at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Wednesday
Retirement marks the end of a significant era in the world of thoroughbred racing and breeding
‘Full circle’ for Captain Vaughan Marshall as Klawervlei bred colt impresses
When Bush Hill Stud introduced New Predator in 2019, one of the many appeals to breeders was the versatility of his pedigree, which is proof of the scope of mares he has received in his first book
It started life as a Challenge Tour event in 2013 and was previously known as the Northern Ireland Open
It’s hard to believe that we are already in the closing stages of the PGA Tour season
August is a great month for women and it was appropriate that Fairview lady trainer Kelly Mitchley joined in the celebrations
There seems to be a belief that with a few tweaks many of racings considerable problems will all go away and that there is a lot of low hanging fruit ready to be plucked, but nothing could be further from the truth!
