
First Stakes Success For Louis The King
A winner of his last three races, Pamushana’s Pride hails from the very first crop of his Sorrento Stud based sire
A winner of his last three races, Pamushana’s Pride hails from the very first crop of his Sorrento Stud based sire
‘ thought at one stage that Christopher Robin’s sire Damage Is Done was doing just that to my broodmare band’
Varsfontein stallion Master Of My Fate should see plenty of interest in his four lots at Sunday’s Cape Yearling Sale
With Gambado splitting the other two, Randall Simons dup deep in a blanket flash across the line.
Geoff Woodruf’s smart Mogok gelding Pagoda stamped himself a genuine SA Champions Season prospect
While it is early days yet, the Turffontein-based Brian Wiid could have another decent sort on his hands in Bankable Teddy
A tap on the shoulder at the 2014 National Yearling Sales as he eyed a handsome son of a talented mare that he trained to six victories, could yet prove to be a very fortuitous moment of fate for the high-riding Tarry
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’