
Highlands Buy At Keeneland
Highlands Stud, part of Ridgemont, splashed out $650 000 to acquire Gr3 Red Carpet Handicap winner Three Hearts, a half-sister to Gr2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf hero and Australian sire Pluck
Highlands Stud, part of Ridgemont, splashed out $650 000 to acquire Gr3 Red Carpet Handicap winner Three Hearts, a half-sister to Gr2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf hero and Australian sire Pluck
The Prix Du Cap has been won by a number of top notch racemares over the years, many of which have gone on to make their mark at stud, including Badger’s Gift, Kelly’s Olympics, National Vixen, Siren’s Cove, and Our Table Mountain
Secret Heart was a half sister to South African Grade 1 winner Covenant and champion Promisefrommyheart, who has produced multiple Graded stakes winner and new Varsfontein stallion Master of My Fate
She had speed, she had size, her pedigree improved every year and her first foal was sensational. This is a hard one to swallow.
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’