
Champion To Champion
‘As the old saying goes in breeding racehorses, you send the best to the best and hope for the best. This is definitely the case with this mating’
‘As the old saying goes in breeding racehorses, you send the best to the best and hope for the best. This is definitely the case with this mating’
Mohaafeth has a South African connection -his third dam, former Cherry Hinton Stakes runner up Red Rita, is a daughter of the former South African based stallion Kefaah
Juddmonte Farm have announced that their super broodmare Kind (Danehill-Rainbow Lake, by Rainbow Quest) died on 8 March 8 due to complications after foaling a colt by Kingman (Invincible Spirit-Zenda, by Zamindar) a few days prior
Khalid Abdullah’s hugely influential Juddmonte has announced 2020 nomination fees for its five European stallions standing at Banstead Manor Stud
Frankel fans have a chance to add to their collections when Bonhams Auction House sells what is believed to be one of the sole remaining racing shoes of the dual world champion
While General Franco arrived on the racing scene in style, we were reminded how dangerously our jockeys live every day
Likely to be one of the most interesting horses racing this week, the 2018 CTS Premier Yearling Sale chart topper General Franco makes his debut at Kenilworth today
Superstar Frankel took his global stakes footprint reach to seven countries when he produced his first South African stakes winner
A number of stallions and their sons continue to exert considerable influence over certain countries, with a number of young sires making a big impression in 2018
Not for the first time, the descendants of the great broodmare and 1993 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Urban Sea dominated a major race day over the weekend
Cracksman returned to his brilliant best with a stunning defeat of Crystal Ocean in the £1,300,000 Gr1 QIPCO Champion Stakes on Saturday
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’