Matrons On The Move
With the 2018 South African breeding season just around the corner, many farms have finalised mating plans for some of their top broodmares
27th July 2018
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With the 2018 South African breeding season just around the corner, many farms have finalised mating plans for some of their top broodmares
An eight-race programme with an average of just over nine runners per race, and where more than one trainer observed that they had been requested to leave horses in, or risk losing races, does not bode well – when we are already nicely into summer.
How impressive was this? Woodruff filly comes out firing to win Oaks Trial in breathtaking style
A number of really good SA broodmares have achieved plenty with their offspring but were never named Broodmare of the Year.
Was the last galloper to win a race on SA soil with a seriously hefty impost Buddy Maroun’s champion Golden Loom, aka ‘Goofy’, who lumbered 65 kgs under Anton Marcus to beat Fov’s Favourite 26 years ago?
In the late 80s, South African breeders were highly skeptical of sons of Mr Prospector. The main criticism was that he was ‘a dirt stallion’ and we race on turf
