Kwinta’s Too Quick
The powerful and imposing Kahal filly Kwinta produced the speed and a resolute finishing effort to record her first stakes win when outpointing a quality field
28th November 2015
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The powerful and imposing Kahal filly Kwinta produced the speed and a resolute finishing effort to record her first stakes win when outpointing a quality field
Trainer Gary Alexander has another top horse again after high class Pierre Jourdan’s brother, Champagne Haze proved best in the R2.5 million Cape Thoroughbred Sales Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup
A botched start to the R100 000 Founders Trophy put the poison cherry on top of a traumatic Fairview meeting for many punters on Friday
The scintillating form shown by Dean Kannemeyer’s string since moving into Summerveld for their maiden Champions Season onslaught continued at Scottsville on Sunday when the Kahal gelding Solar Star scored his first feature victory
There are critics who feel the Mr Prospector male line has not been effective in South Africa but is this true? Sarah Whitelaw investigates.
In stark contrast to the dramatic fairer sex equivalent run a half hour earlier, the R400 000 Gr2 Joburg Spring Challenge was little more than a choir practice for Gavin Van Zyl’s Kahal gelding, No Worries
Gavin Van Zyl’s No Worries had the last laugh when storming home to win the KZN Breeders Million Mile run at Clairwood on Sunday. The 4yo son of the ill-fated Kahal slammed the 3yo Bezanova and in the process may have sent a veiled wake-up call to the high-riding younger brigade on the eve of Saturday’s Vodacom Durban July
Kahal, the most successful son of Machiavellian to stand in South Africa, was euthanized after complications from abdominal tumours.
Uncle Tommy handed a galloping lesson to South Africa’s top rated sand horse Pylon, when he produced a superior finish to win the Highveld Sand Challenge (L) at the Vaal on Tuesday afternoon. Cape jockey Richard Fourie rode a determined race over the sand mile for trainer Weiho Marwing and owner Hassen Adams.
One of South Africa’s most consistent sires, Kahal has been represented by five stakes horses this season, including the top-class mare Classic Illusion. Currently eighth
Alexander plan comes to fruition in the R150 000 Gr3 Flamboyant Stakes
This year’s BSA Cape Yearling Sale will be held at a new venue, the SARDA Centre in Constantia, reflecting on the the partnership between BSA, SARDA and Constantia Valley Riding Club
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
