
Big Season Ahead!
Travers Stakes winner Flower Alley, whose second South African crop are now three-year-olds, looks poised for a potentially big season in 2020-2021
Travers Stakes winner Flower Alley, whose second South African crop are now three-year-olds, looks poised for a potentially big season in 2020-2021
Our much maligned handicappers may have taken a quiet bow on Saturday
When one takes into consideration that the majority of colts are gelded and make no further contribution to the gene pool, a well-bred filly has considerable residual value when her racing career is over
Wilgerbosdrift’s Gr1 winning sire Flower Alley made headlines in Japan on Sunday as the broodmare sire of Gr1 Osaka Hai winner Lucky Lilac
Wilgerbosdrift’s proven international Gr1 producing sire Flower Alley opened his South African account
The Highlands bred gelding is out of the one-time winning Tapit mare Gin Rummy, who produced the Snaith-trained one-time winner from five starts to date, Ladder Man
Sorrento Stud’s Triple Crown winner Louis The King is the latest addition to a star-studded line-up for the Highlands Stallion Parade
Redoute’s Choice stallion Time Thief, who recently celebrated his first Gr1 winner in Australia, has joined an illustrious line-up of sires as Highlands Stud part of Ridgemont hosts a stallion parade
Highlands Stud part of Ridgemont will host a stallion day, featuring some of the Cape’s most successful and exciting stallions
Flower Alley was represented by his fourth individual Gr1 winner when his son Bullards Alley landed the Pattison Canadian International at Woodbine on Sunday
Wilgerbosdrift is built around the definition that horses make a landscape look beautiful. Sunday, 3 September saw them host a very unique stallion day showcasing some of the most exciting sires on the SA roster. If you missed it, you missed out!
South African horseracing falls under the Asian Racing Federation and the Graded status of races is decided by the Asian Pattern Committee (APC)
Explained – the circumstances behind the decision by the connections of the dual Grade 1- winning sophomore One Stripe to ‘bypass’ the R1,5 million SplashOut Gr1 Cape Derby on 22 February in favour of a likely final run on South African soil in the non-black type Big Cap
With the Aga Khan’s breeding and racing programme very much geared towards the classics, it can be argued that South Africa, where speed, rather than stamina is the hallmark of its racing programme, has failed to capitalise on the excellence of especially its female families
Rob Haswell tells that he has had horses trained by Nathan Kotzen for more than twenty years and pulls us up for our Umthombothi Stakes ‘flop’