Canford Cliffs – Another Dazzling Double
The Ridgemont team enjoyed a double at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on a Cape winter’s Wednesday with two daughters of their international stakes-producing five-time Gr1-winning stallion Canford Cliffs producing the goods for the Brett & James Crawford yard. With Brett Crawford having left on Tuesday for his new challenge in Hong Kong, it was encouraging to see […]
Canford Cliffs – Another Dazzling Double
The Ridgemont team enjoyed a double at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on a Cape winter’s Wednesday with two daughters of their international stakes-producing five-time Gr1-winning stallion Canford Cliffs producing the goods for the Brett & James Crawford yard. With Brett Crawford having left on Tuesday for his new challenge in Hong Kong, it was encouraging to see […]
Canford Cliffs Son Wins Castle Tankard
Ridgemont’s red-hot five time Grade 1 winning sire Canford Cliffs enjoyed a prestige success North of the Limpopo on Saturday when his Daytona-bred son Action Zone stormed to victory under Mathew Thackeray to win the 65th renewal of the US$ 50 000 Gr1 Castle Tankard at Borrowdale Park. Action Zone beat the former Gavin Smith-trained […]
Canford Cliffs mare shines in Australia
Ridgemont’s inform stallion Canford Cliffs has come up with a top-class broodmare daughter in the form of Bumbasina. The latter made her mark in both the sales ring and on the track this past week. On Thursday, Bumbasina’s top-class daughter Amelia’s Jewel was knocked down for AUS$3.8 million at the Chairman’s Sale and on Saturday […]
Ridgemont’s Canford Cliffs Scores Another Direct Hit
Ridgemont’s five-time Gr1 winning stallion Canford Cliffs maintained his top-class form when his daughter Direct Hit, one of this term’s most exciting 2yo prospects, kept her impeccable record intact with a facile victory in the R175 000 Listed East Cape Nursery at Fairview on Good Friday. Running fresh off her victory in the R1 million SplashOut […]
Greeff-Fourie Can Take A Direct Hit Today
Racing on Good Friday was often frowned upon in days past, but it seems that it is no longer a point of debate and after the postponement of the Hollywoodbets Greyville racemeeting that was carded for this evening, Fairview is a standalone on the first day of the Easter long weekend. The first is due […]
Canford’s Versatility The Winner!
Umfula & Hot Sauce deliver for their sire! Ridgemont’s red-hot five-time Grade 1 winning stallion Canford Cliffs maintained his extraordinary season with his fourth juvenile winner from just four starters when his clearly talented daughter Hot Sauce did some low-flying on debut at Fairview on Friday. The versatile sire followed up with an eye-catching winner […]
FIRST WINNER FOR BREEDERS’ CUP WINNER
The champagne corks were popping down in the beautiful Robertson valley on Friday with the Ridgemont team celebrating another sparkling performance by their stallions in two provinces, with their red-hot five-time Grade 1 winner Canford Cliffs the star of the show. The local SA double-header commenced with a Fairview turf meeting, and after Canford Cliff’s […]
Win Win Win For Canford Cliffs
The Ridgemont team celebrated a Canford Cliffs homebred double trained by the Brett and James Crawford partnership and ridden by their retained jockey Richard Fourie, as racing returned to a sundrenched Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Wednesday. The five-time Gr1 winner Canford Cliffs, victorious in two of three starts as a juvenile, including the Gr2 Coventry Stakes, […]
Ridgemont-Bred Canford Cliffs Filly Makes Eyecatching Debut
The national juvenile programme is now in full stride countrywide after the Canford Cliffs filly Instaworthy showed too much pace for her rivals to win the R75 000 Welcome To Nelson Mandela Bay Maiden Juvenile Plate at Fairview on Friday. The Friday opener was the first baby race in the Eastern Cape this term and produced […]