Hasili, the dam of champions Banks Hill and Intercontinental, Canadian Horse of the Year Champs Elysees, and leading sire Dansili for Juddmonte Farms, will be bred to Juddmonte sire Zamindar (Gone West) this spring.
The stallion services charity auction at the annual pre-Met Cocktails & Racing evening grossed R912k.
Here’s the list of those who contributed for 2011
Albert Hall was credited with his first success as a sire when colt Alberts Vigilance won at the third time of asking over 1000m at Kenilworth
Much-travelled Black Minnaloushe shuttled between the USA and New Zealand before being acquired to stand in South Africa and was credited with his first locally-bred winner when colt Nine Tail Cat made an emphatic winning debut over 1000m at Scottsville
Miesque’s Approval became the first of the current group of freshman sires to be credited with a two-year-old winner when colt Top Of The Chocs easily made a successful debut over 1000m at Clairwood on Sunday.
Just As Well, a Graded Stakes winner of over $850k, has been purchased by a group of KZN breeders and will retire to stud at Bruce le Roux’s Spring Valley Stud for the 2011 breeding season. Just As Well is by champion sire A. P. INDY, a proven sire-of-sires whose sons include Pulpit (fee $50k) and Malibu Moon (fee $60k), as well as Congrats and Bernardini who together head the US Freshman sirelist.
Cocktails & Racing 2011 – Charity Evening: Tuesday 25 January 2011, Peninsula Room, Kenilworth Race Course -6.30 pm
Horseracing’s loss is the breeding industry’s gain. This was the philosophical attitude adopted by an obviously disappointed trainer Dean Kannemeyer when announcing the shock news of the injury enforced retirement of the handsome and brilliant son of Pivotal, Noordhoek Flyer
National Assembly has retired from active duties. Getting up in the mornings is becoming more and more difficult for the now twenty-six year old stallion. And yes, size does matter, for at fifteen-three hands even enjoyable tasks are becoming unsurmountable when only the joints are stiff.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
