Big Orange finished fifth in the Melbourne Cup at Flemington Park last November, and a return to Australia is a distinct possibility depending on the weight he is allotted by the handicapper
Drakenstein stallion Duke Of Marmalade’s 5yo son Big Orange made all for the second year running to win the Gr2 Princess Of Wales’s Arqana Racing Club Stakes
Drakenstein Stud’s resident sire Duke Of Marmalade had a royal winner at Newmarket
Drakenstein Stud-based Duke of Marmalade has the probable favourite for the 29 May renewal of the lucrative Gr2 Oaks d’Italia
While Australian bred thoroughbreds filled the second, third and fourth spots in the Gr1 SA Classic, it was North American bred and raced sires who well and truly made their presence felt
Duke Of Marmalade’s smart daughter Simple Verse won her second Group One race in rather less controversial circumstances with a game display in the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot on Saturday
Drakenstein Stud’s resident sire Duke Of Marmalade was in the news once again this weekend–this time in the Southern Hemisphere
Modernstone, gave her sire yet another feature win when she landed the Fasig Tipton Ladies Marathon Stakes at Kentucky Downs on Saturday
Simple Verse confirmed her status as arguably the leading staying filly of her generation with her remarkable run in Saturday’s classic, the final leg of the British Triple Crown
Two of the Western Cape’s most popular and well performed young sires could be represented by runners in one of the world’s greatest races come November
SA horseracing needs strong leadership – today. Otherwise we are doomed. Stakeholders don’t need this kind of circus!
A former Bloemfontein champion trainer, Michael McLachlan was a popular character in the halcyon days of horseracing and now finds himself in dire need
