Former USA sire Trippi has his first South African two-year-olds racing this season and was credited with his first winner with his first local runner when filly Agra made a successful debut over 900m at Kenilworth on Saturday.
A half-sister to the beautifully bred Seul Amor made headlines earlier in the year,
On the grand scale of things, the annual Ready-to-Run sale for 2yo’s is as good as it gets.
For two years in a row, the sale has produced Equus champions. Sale graduates have an opportunity to compete for a prize of R2 million early in their 3yo career – the third richest race in the land and there only are 185 tickets in the draw.
NATIONAL 2YO SALE: If any reminder was needed about the significance of National 2yo Sale graduates, then The Apache provided a timely reminder last Sunday at Greyville. Sold in August 2009 for R80k, just under the overall sale average for colts, the son of Mogok stands every chance to collect Equus Champion 3yo Colt honours. That’s apart from the multiple Gr1 winner’s current earnings, which stand at a solid R1.6 million. And he’s not alone.
A Daughter’s Legacy winner of the Gr3 Final Fling Stakes over 1800m joins the broodmare band Avontuur Thoroughbred Stud farm
Tiger Dance has his first crop of 2YO’s racing this season and was credited with his first success when filly Moika Dancer won at the third time of asking over 1200m at Kenilworth on Wednesday.
A series of specialist lecture programmes forms part of the School of Management Excellence curriculum. Mike de Kock, Jehan Malherbe and John McVeigh form part of the lecturer line-up
Back to its traditional date in Vodacom July week, the KZN yearling sale has a new home, the Suncoast Casino, on the Durban beach front. All you need is an eye for a Horse (with capital H) and a bit of Luck (the spin of the wheel), as the connections of the most recent eye-catchers Seal and Variometer will readily admit.
Newton, a son of Danehill has his first crop of 2yo’s racing this season and was credited with a first success when Sir Newton scored over 1500m at Scottsville on Wednesday.
Lithuanian has his first two-year-olds racing this season and was credited with his first success as a stallion when filly Pacific Breeze won at the third time of asking over 1200m at Kenilworth on Sunday.
ROBYN LOUW: I bang on about horses pretty much all the time. Because I love horses. I love having horses. I love the fun of breeding.
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
