Avontuur Dream Shines
Superstar Frankel took his global stakes footprint reach to seven countries when he produced his first South African stakes winner
31st March 2019
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Superstar Frankel took his global stakes footprint reach to seven countries when he produced his first South African stakes winner
Justin Snaith is set to follow a similar programme to the one he plotted in 2017 as the Captain Al mare Jo’s Bond steps up to defend her title in Sunday’s national topliner
Lost luggage and a slipped saddle couldn’t stop Richard Fourie and Justin Snaith from opening their 2017 KZN feature account
The smart Argonaut mare Clear Sailing won Sunday’s Listed KwaZulu Natal Stakes at Scottsville five months in foal and in the process picked up some well-timed bold black-type
Three feature winners in 24 hours had a rampant Spies all smiles and he quipped: “Now I know what Sean Tarry felt like on Saturday!”
Exercise gallop for Var’s champion daughter Via Africa in the Listed Kwazulu Natal Stakes
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
