Siren’s Call’s dam side family is rich with champion sprinters and there appear to be sufficient staying influences within her first two dams to support the stamina she receives in abundance from her sire.
Sheer cucumber cool brilliance from the saddle and a gutsy never-say-die equine athlete with the heart of a lioness kept the 2015 Wilgerbosdrift Triple Tiara flame flickering at Turffontein on Saturday
Elusive Fort’s daughter Siren’s Call threw down the Triple Tiara gauntlet to Mike De Kock’s outstanding Redoute’s Choice filly Majmu, and a few others, when she stamped her authority in sensational fashion with a courageous win
If that is the best we can conjure up, then the country is pretty close to a crisis and we should not be sleeping well at night, suggests Joey Ramsden
“With money this big on offer, the guys rode like crazy. It was mayhem,” is how Siren’s Call’s rider Piere Strydom summed it up
Part owner of the Kenilworth first race winner Princess Royal and a past winning owner of 2009 Sceptre Stakes winner Lady Windermere, Peter De Beyer has enjoyed plenty of success in horseracing
The race to see who can establish a successfully enduring male line is on between Rakeen through Jet Master and Fort Wood through Dynasty
The new MR of Yorker plays havoc with the July-weights of the 3yo’s
There was a unique South African connection in the background as the Ralph Beckett-trained Bluestocking charged to victory under Rossa Ryan to win the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday
