Great Sire’s Lasting Legacy
Last week marked the anniversary of the death from cancer of one of history’s greatest stallions
20th July 2016
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Last week marked the anniversary of the death from cancer of one of history’s greatest stallions
First, and even second, crop success does not ensure long term quality for a stallion, but many great stallions have made an immediate impression with their first crops. Sarah Whitelaw takes a look.
In the last ten years, a Northern Dancer male line descendant has headed the general sires log in eight years.
When making a list of outstanding stallions, it is easy to focus on a few big horses, rather than an individual stallion’s overall stud record.
SARAH WHITELAW: Bold Ruler was a truly great and remarkably dominant stallion, who became a potent sire of sires, and highly successful broodmare sire.
A man we are privileged to have known as a loyal friend of this great game and of the Sporting Post, a personal mate, and one of South African horseracing’s great characters, Shaheen Shaw, a husband, loving Dad and Grandad, passed away suddenly at the age of 55
The sad reality is that no matter who did what wrong, the Peter saga has been a scar on the SA horseracing landscape for far too long and besides the old favourite of justice delayed, it has lingered lengths ahead of KZN star Royal Victory’s big win in the 2023 renewal of the Highveld showpiece
