King’s Apostle

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

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Champion Genetics: foundation mare Allegretta

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.

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The Aga Khan – A Man Of Great Influence

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

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