23rd May 2011
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Education and training has always underpinned Summerhill’s success, and the mentoring classes established on the farm more than 20 years ago have seen 40 overseas scholarships awarded to people who had never ventured too far from the boundaries of Mooi River in their lives.
Gr1 win for Black Minnaloushe colt in Macau, Gr2 place for mare in USA
South Africa doesn’t have a greater racing ambassador abroad than our man Irwin, and his victory in the Kentucky Derby with homebred Animal Kingdom, will have warmed the hearts of all South African racegoers.
Miesque’s Approval’s yearlings at the 2011 National Sales averaged 5.5 times service fee
Travelin Man and R Heat Lightning highlight belated success for Forty Niner’s grandson Trippi
Travelin Man, a recent Hutcheson Stakes (G2) runner-up, made quick work of four challengers in his second stakes attempt, surging away in the stretch of the $147,000 Swales Stakes (G2)
Trippi must surely be the most valuable stallion ever to stand in South Africa. He is in the Top 3 of the North American General Sires List. R Heat Lightning looked like a potential Gr1 Kentucky Oaks winner after her Gr2 Gulfstream Oak victory.
Check the full lists of nominees in all categories – and final winners
In a ruling on 23rd November, just four days before inspections commence at Tattersalls December Mare Sale in Newmarket, England, the State Vet declared that in-foal broodmares purchased at the sale, a rich source of fresh blood at various budgets for South African breeders over the years, would be unacceptable for the regular January flight to Cape Town unless in foal no earlier than 240 days before the flight scheduled for 20th January.
End of the line for stallion whose life story reads like a Dick Francis novel
