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GOLD CIRCLE'S Festival of Speed : Four Gr1's 2008-05-30 08:35:12 Lester Piggott (Frank Tewkesbury)Scottsville Racecourse was often referred to in the days when it still boasted a dip on the far straight, as a “poor track,” so this scene of Lester Piggott’s greatest ever ride on a racehorse, has come a long way in its splendid history to host what are arguably the four most important Grade One sprints on the South African racing calendar. Of Read more:Festival
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Golden Horse Casino Sprint 2008-05-30 04:53:38
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Summerhill Stud is well represented in this Saturday's racing bonanza at Scottsville Racecourse. There are no less than 9 Summerhill-sired runners entered in the four Group 1 races. RACE 5 - Gr1 ALLAN ROBERTSON FILLIES CHAMPIONSHIP 1200m - 1.30pm 3 GOAT (LABEEB x HELLO DOLLY) 6 KESHA (BRAASHEE x BABY BATTLE) RACE 6 - Gr1 GOLD REEF RESORTS MEDALLION 1200m - 2.05pm Read more:Sprint
JACKIE CAMERON : Winter Warmer Recipes 2008-05-31 20:30:20 Jackie Cameron (Patrick Royal) Winter is here – well almost. As it gets colder out come the winter warmers: undergarments, hot chocolate and the many soup recipes. The recipes below are unique and are favourites among all at Hartford House. Soup can be easy to make but many cooks often confuse the flavour combinations. A person eating onion wants to taste onion with the other flavours compli Read more:Warmer
KAHAL : The winning streak continues 2008-06-03 06:50:44 Kahal (Greig Muir)After a relatively quiet spell, Summerhill super sire, Kahal, has had a good last few weeks. His good luck began with his progeny taking the laurels, and three out of the first four places in the KZN Breeders 1600 (listed) last Sunday at Clairwood. Last week it was the turn of 2005 Ready To Run graduate Emir who recorded his fourth career win with an impressive performance in th
BIG BROWN : Cracked hoof no concern in bid for Triple Crown? 2008-06-04 10:21:02 Big Brown's cracked left hoof (Al Bello/Getty)Dan Gelston from the Associated Press reports the following regarding speculation around Big Brown's cracked hoof :"Big Brown’s bombastic trainer has no concerns about the colt’s slightly cracked hoof. Rick Dutrow Jr. wishes everyone else would stop worrying how his horse will handle running with a patch on the quarter crack. “I Read more:Cracked
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Olivia Schaffer... a birthday tribute 2008-06-04 04:13:21 Olivia Schaffer (Heather Morkel)Hartford House marketing doyen, Olivia Schaffer, celebrates her birthday today. We're sure that the celebrations will go long into the night in true 'Oli style'. Below is a message written by Chantal Naidoo and the Hartford Team."For as long as we've known you, you've been a special person with a genuinely good heart and a true sense of caring. It shows in the Read more:Olivia
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Summerhill Exacta in the 'Big One' at Turffontein 2008-06-03 20:59:00 Mike Winstanly The topliner in Johannesburg Sunday was the Syringa Handicap (Listed), in which the farm was represented by three fillies; recent Group winner Spring Garland, (sister to Imbongi), hot-in-form Ithala, who’d gone down by the narrowest of margins in a Grade 3 on a prior start, and Aces Wild, who comes from the family of one of our most celebrated matrons, Coconut Ice. The latte
Icy Air with BARRY WATSON 2008-06-05 21:06:37
Frosty Summerhill Silhouettes (Annet Becker)
The frost has finally arrived. Summerhill Stud's Agriculture Manager, Barry Watson, shares with us his thoughts on this imperative cycle in nature. "Finally it has come, the first for the season, a good touch of frost. It finally arrived after a light sprinkling of rain yesterday which undoubtedly helped supply the all important moisture that
BIG BROWN steps up the heat in the kitchen 2008-06-05 10:05:27 Big Brown and Michelle Nevin (AFP/Getty) Saturday witnesses the 3rd leg of American Triple Crown, a Holy Grail unassailed since Affirmed completed the hat trick thirty years ago. The rage in 2008 is the undefeated Big Brown, who’s as likely a Triple Crown hero as Secretariat was in 1972, if his form to date is any indication. BB is a rock star and he knows it. He does, however, go about hi Read more:steps
The paparazzi sneaked in. 2008-06-05 04:05:09 Click on the paparazzi to view just released photographs.
Callwood Dancer stars for Danehill at Woodbine Canada 2008-06-04 21:01:56 Callwood Dancer
(WEG/Michael Burns)Coolmore Stud reports that well-bred mare Callwood Dancer (4m Danehill Dancer x Ahdaab, by Rahy) landed a win in the Group Two Nassau Stakes at Woodbine, Canada
on the weekend.Placed in England as a two year-old, she was transferred to North America where she won four races before going to the gates for this Group Two event over 1 1/16-mile at odds of 9-1.The Rog Read more:stars
Views from The Derby Festival 2008-06-07 00:50:08
Ladies Day at Epsom(Tom Hevezi/AP Photo)(Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images)
Yesterday was Ladies Day at the Epsom Derby Festival
. A wonderfully stylish day out, Epsom's Ladies Day was the place to be, with ladies dressed up in their best to see the finest fillies competing in the feature race - The Oaks. On Ladies Day, ladies take centre stage, both on and off the course.Remember, our own V
JIM BOLGER ruffling feathers with New Approach 2008-06-06 20:05:52 New Approach (Sporting Life/Irum Shahid)Having already caused consternation over the u-turn he performed earlier this week by declaring top colt New Approach an Epsom English Derby runner, trainer Jim Bolger is ruffling the feathers of rival trainers in the lead-up to Saturday’s race. Several trainers are expected to seek guarantees that the often headstrong colt won’t delay the start
BIG BROWN draws rail in Belmont, third leg of the US Triple Crown 2008-06-06 12:45:10 Big Brown and Rick Dutrow Jr (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty)Trainer Rick Dutrow wanted the outside gate, but got the inside in the draw for tomorrow’s Belmont
Stakes in New York reports Mike Hedge. Bidding to become the first horse in 30 years to win the US TripleCrown
, Big Brown is a 2-5 favourite for the 2400m event. Big Brown came from the outside gate in a 20 horse field to win the Kentucky De Read more:third
Shock for the World’s Most Famous Race as New Approach pays up 2008-06-06 09:00:13 Jim Bolger (Alan Crowhurst/Getty)Irish trainer Jim Bolger is at the centre of a major controversy in the lead-up to Saturday’s English Derby following a major turnaround which has resulted in his star colt New Approach becoming a certain starter. The decision came after Jim Bolger had consistently ruled New Approach out of the race, leading bookmakers to quote him at more than 200-1 for Euro Read more:Shock
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DAILY NEWS 2000 : Big Weekend of Racing 2008-06-06 05:45:51
Those people who regularly read our “propaganda” will recall our claim that where there’s Group One racing, there’s almost invariably a Summerhill horse in the vicinity. This weekend’s no exception, with the renewal of the Daily News 2000 (Gr.1) at Greyville. While most of the principal suspects in contention for this year’s Champion Three Year Old Classic H Read more:Weekend
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Russian Sage Sold 2008-06-06 03:34:16 Russian Sage beaten by Imbongi in Guineas (Gold Circle)Team Valor International has put together an international partnership to campaign Gr1 Cape of Good Hope Derby winner Russian Sage (SAf) (Jallad-Blue Sage {SAf}, by Badger Land), stable principal Barry Irwin announced yesterday. Irwin negotiated the purchase of the South African star directly with the Estate of John Newsome, who raced with h Read more:Russian
BIG BROWN : Triple Crown chapter closed. 2008-06-08 01:00:00 Big Brown being hugged after the race by Frank Lyons and Michael Iavarone (AP Photo/Kathy Wilens) Big Brown started as favourite to win in yesterday’s 140th running of the Belmont Stakes , but lost in heartbreaking style to eventual victor Da’Tara . The undefeated Big Brown made history by becoming the first TripleCrown
hopeful to pull up early and finish dead last in the Belmont Stak
Stallions 2008, the Three Musketeers and the Danehill Mystery 2008-06-07 21:01:22 Dr Gene Tsoi and William Choi from Hong Kong with their $800 000 Karaka Yearling Sale purchase; a bay colt from Cambridge Stud, Danehill x Nine Carats ( Phil Walter /Getty)Leading Australian bloodstock correspondent, Andrew Reichard, had the following article published in Friday's edition of Stallions Daily Bulletin. "What a title, I hope it has piqued your interest. How on earth, I hea Read more:Three
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NEW APPROACH wins Epsom Derby for Princess Haya 2008-06-07 12:52:17 Her Royal Highness Princess
Haya Bint Al Hussein (Chris Jackson) New Approach gave Irish trainer Jim Bolger and jockey Kevin Manning their first success in the Vodafone Derby with a game victory at Epsom. The UK's Telegraph reports that the English and Irish 2000 Guineas runner-up, sent off at 5-1, just held the persistent challenge of Sir Michael Stoute's Tartan Bearer (6-1), ridden by Ryan Moor
MDK aka Mike de Kock reaches 60 Grade 1 wins! 2008-06-07 11:18:59 Mary Slack and Rat Burana (Summerhill Stud/Gold Circle)Rat Burana, scored her second Grade
1 win last Saturday, giving Mike de Kock his 60th Grade 1 win and chances are he will be well over 100 before his 60th birthday! “It was fitting that Rat Burana is owned by Mary Slack,” said Mike de Kock. “I’ve trained many Grade 1 winners for Mary and her family. Mrs Oppenheimer&rsqu
EPSOM DERBY : England's most famous horserace a Triumph for Galileo 2008-06-09 16:20:58 New Approach with Kevin Manning aboard(AP Press)Much maligned he may have been for his belief that the world was round, the human version of Galileo
was not only a man ahead of his time, but his theories cost him dearly for much of his lifetime. It seems though, that having dispensed his penance for what turned out to be as revolutionary a discovery as any in history, the gods are now smiling swee Read more:England
GALANT GAGNANT : Nice guys come second 2008-06-09 09:25:18 Galant Gagnant and Kahal(Gold Circle/Summerhill Stud)If money ever had anything to do with the outcome of a race, it was always going to be prohibitive odds-on that Russian Sage would prevail in the ten furlong nominal championship event for the Classic generation, the Daily News 2000 (Gr.1). Whether his sale last week to the master “picker”, Barry Irwin’s US-based Team Valor w
KINGS GAMBIT sold to Dr James Hay 2008-06-09 04:57:30 Kings Gambit winning the SA Classic (Gr1) (Gold Circle)Champion three-year-old Kings Gambit, scratched on Wednesday from this Saturday’s Grade 1 Daily News 2000, has been sold for an undisclosed amount to trainer Herman Brown's patron, Dr James
Hay. "The Russians have been negotiating all week and the deal was just about to be clinched when they pulled out late yesterday. Dr James Hay s
GALILEO and PIVOTAL battle for 'Leading Sire in Europe' Honours 2008-06-08 20:01:36 Galileo with Mick Kinane aboard (Julien Herbert/Allsport)Irish-based stallions are, as usual, dominating the Table of Leading
Sires in Europe
in 2008, with five of the top eight resident in the Emerald Isle. The surprise package of the current list is Haras de Victot’s third-placed Chichicastenango, whose son Vision d’Etat retained his unbeaten record in Sunday’s Gr.1 Prix du J Read more:Honours
The Race of the Season... the GOLD CHALLENGE. 2008-06-10 15:00:32
Last year’s Gold Challenge attracted the highest average merit rating of any field in the 2007 racing year, and it seems the 2008 version will be no different. Six Grade One winners and two consecutive Guineas victors is a formidable assembly by any measure, particularly when it includes several who might be celebrating their swansongs before their departure for foreign climes. No doubt, Read more:Season
GOLD CHALLENGE : The Valley of the Giants - Part Three 2008-06-10 08:49:27 Imbongi (Nicholas Goss)While the bulk of the Nation’s top Three
Year Old colts were doing battle in Saturday’s Daily News 2000 (Gr.1), the best of them (some may take issue with that, so we’ll have to wait for next Saturday to see) was quietly biding his time in the sanctuary of Mike de Kock’s Summerveld yard. IMBONGI faces his biggest assignment yet in the 1600m Gold Ch Read more:Valley
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So they've got a Galileo... we have three. 2008-06-10 03:54:46 Galileo and Mick Kinane winning at Epsom(Phil Cole/Allsport)Anticipating that Galileo could wind up Europe’s Champion Sire for 2008 (and after Saturday, that looks pretty much a certainty,) the Summerhill team strategised that we should attempt to exploit the Aussie antipathy towards his progeny for the lack of precocity they’ve displayed in that speed-crazy country. And so we went to Read more:Galileo
The GOLD CHALLENGE... a case of history rewritten 2008-06-11 19:01:25 The Bullfight (espanol) It’s one thing talking about a bullfight, it’s another being in the ring with the bull, and this time it’s the real thing. But IMBONGI has more than earned his place in this Grade One Gold Challenge blockbuster courtesy of two Guineas victories and his giant-killing performance in the Drill Hall, and there’s little doubt he’s up to it. Qualif
Comrades Marathon Recipes with Jackie Cameron 2008-06-11 04:00:05 Comrades Marathon
Dawn (Craig Dutton) Running and cooking are journeys of experiences and challenges involving complete dedication and motivation to complete the task. As athletes manage their final preparations for the Comrades Marathon (June 15) I think of the statement, which marries these two activities - to be a good chef is to be a prepared chef. And to all you athletes: May a successful Com Read more:Jackie
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