Rafeef – More Accolades As Dream Season Rolls On!
It was another super Saturday for Ridgemont’s boom sire Rafeef with an impressive 2yo debut winner at Turffontein and two award winning progeny at the Highveld Feature Season Awards later the same day. Formerly sponsored by Ridgemont, the talented Callan Murray was enjoying his first race day back on African soil in over four years […]
Rafeef Roadshow Rocks ‘n Rolls!
The Rafeef purple patch continued in the 2025 Champions Season opener at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday when the champion son of Redoute’s Choice produced another crackerjack performer in the shape of Mon Petit Cherie who won the R500 000 World Sports Betting Gr2 Fillies Guineas. Successful in the 2024 Gr2 Western Cape Fillies Championship, the Crawford […]
Binda’s Barefoot Bomber Bags KRA Cup
A 4yo who showed an early penchant for Hollywoodbets Greyville, the Ridgemont bred Rafeef gelding Ziyasha bounced back unshod from a 24 week break to win the R185 000 KRA Cup at the Theatre Of Champions on Saturday. The Korea Racing Authority has maintained close ties with South African racing over many years and after […]
Ridgemont Unleash The Big Guns
Ridgemont stallions, established star Rafeef and newcomer Malmoos, emerged with sparkling credit as the curtain came down last Friday on the 2025 BSA National Yearling Sale in Johannesburg. Rafeef had 27 yearlings sell for an aggregate of R27 125 000, at an average of R1 004 630, including producing the sales standout topseller, a magnificent […]
Wow William! Not A Dry Eye In The House…
The Ridgemont-bred Rafeef gelding William Robertson’s milestone victory in the R1 million TAB Gr1 Computaform Sprint at Turffontein on Saturday will go down as the fairytale moment of 4Racing’s 2025 Champions Day as the soldier found reserves of strength and overcame an objection to register a deserved maiden Grade 1 success. We have said it […]
Speed And Stamina – Rafeef Rules!
He was once popularly labelled ‘the thunder from Down Under’ and the stature of Ridgemont’s super sire Rafeef, a champion, by a champion, out of a champion, continues to grow with every passing major raceday. That was underscored in no uncertain terms for the sire of sires again on Champions Day when the former SA […]
Ridgemont-Bred Rafeef Gelding Records 14th Win
The R1 million Gr1 Computaform Sprint is the next target for Corne Spies’ top-class Rafeef gelding William Robertson who lumbered top weight of 62kgs when running out a convincing winner of the R300 000 TAB Gr3 JJ The Jet Plane Stakes at Turffontein on Saturday. Ridden by Bryanston Auctioneers’ Ryan Munger, who won his maiden […]
Ridgemont Sires On Fire!
Ridgemont jockey Richard Fourie got his first feel of the exciting Mike de Kock-trained Rafeef filly Easy Tiger, who stormed to her second consecutive win at Turffontein on Saturday. Raced by Ridgemont and Devin Heffer, Easy Tiger quickened and ran on strongly to beat Glastonbury. She was green in the run to the line and […]
A Ridgemont Tiger In De Kock’s Tank
The Ridgemont-bred Rafeef filly Easy Tiger produced one of the most impressive juvenile debut performances of recent months when she ran out an easy winner accounting for more experienced males in the Turffontein opener on Saturday. Clawing his way back to peak fitness after his recent injury enforced lay-off, Muzi Yeni had Easy Tiger well […]
The Thunder Rolls!
The Ridgemont Team look to have another classic prospect on their hands after the Rafeef filly Mon Petit Cherie followed in the golden hoofprints of the Robertson nursery’s past Cape Fillies Guineas winners Make It Snappy (2022) and Front And Centre (2018), with a sensational victory in last Saturday’s Gr2 Western Cape Fillies Championship at […]