
Lucky 13 For Spies?
Last term’s Zimbabwe champion conditioner Corne Spies trains the gelding, who shed his maiden at Kimberley on the sand, and was placed in the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes on the Greyville turf during the KZN Champions Season
Last term’s Zimbabwe champion conditioner Corne Spies trains the gelding, who shed his maiden at Kimberley on the sand, and was placed in the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes on the Greyville turf during the KZN Champions Season
First winner from first runner for Klawervlei’s King’s Apostle
The famous foundation mare Allegretta – ancestress of no less than nine winners of eighteen Gr1’s headed by six classics, two Prix de l’Arc de Triomphes, one King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. King’s Apostle’s pedigree represents the Allegretta x Sadler’s Wells cross that produced Galileo.
Amanda Skiffington fought off Charlie Gordon-Watson to get an Oasis Dream (GB) half-sister to G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner King’s Apostle (Ire) (King’s Best) for 400,000gns.
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’