Rafeef Daughters Dominate Betway Summer Cup Prep
The fairer sex dominated what in effect was a Betway Summer Cup trial race at a hot Turffontein on Saturday with Rafeef daughters Beating Wings and Frances Ethel filling the top two places in the R175 000 Pinnacle Stakes run over the 1600m inside course. Africa’s richest race, the R6 million Betway Gr1 Summer Cup […]
Barnane Stud-Bred Lope De Vega Filly Impresses On Debut
Fresh off a superb ride at Doncaster on Saturday to win the Betfred St Leger on Aidan O’Brien’s Jan Brueghel, jockey Sean Levey enjoyed a much easier commission when he partnered the Barnane Stud-bred Lope De Vega filly Zip It Up to an armchair debut victory at Kempton on Monday for a partnership of the […]
Ridgemont’s Dazzling Hollywoodbets Durban July Day
Robertson breeding operation Ridgemont had a dream day at Hollywoodbets Greyville last Saturday as they celebrated a glorious top two with products of their sponsored Grade 1 feature, and followed that scintillating exacta with an eye-catching winner in a Grade 2 just a half hour later. The R1,5 million Ridgemont Gr1 Garden Province Stakes ranks […]
Ridgemont Enjoy Humdinger In Sponsored Garden Province
The script could not have been written better for Ridgemont, sponsoring the Gr1 Ridgemont Garden Province Stakes for the third year in a row and achieving an exacta result in the process, as the brave and Gr1 deserving Humdinger crossed the finish line ahead of another Ridgemont bred, Happy Chance in the colours of the […]
Ridgemont Back Grade 1 Contest Again
Leading local and international breeders Ridgemont will sponsor the R1,5 million Ridgemont Gr1 Garden Province Stakes for the second consecutive year on the Hollywoodbets Durban July card today. In the 2024 renewal, Ridgemont are breeders of both Happy Chance (Dynasty) and Humdinger (What A Winter), while Mrs Browning (Rafeef) and Red Palace (Potala Palace) carry […]
Kieswetter Feature Strike At The Curragh
The Kieswetter family enjoyed yet another stakes winner conditioned by leading trainer William Haggas when the Barnane Stud-bred Kingman gelding Candleford carried the flag at The Curragh on Saturday for the Kieswetter family. The victory comes just over a month after Barnane Stud’s flying grey Il Etait Temps, who is raced in partnership with the […]
Thunderstruck Retired To Stud
It is very disappointing to announce that Thunderstruck injured his knee in what looked like a very comfortable and spectacular victory on Saturday. In consultation with the vets and racing manager, Jehan Malherbe, given how late it is in the season and considering all that he has done for us and the brilliant season he […]
Ridgemont Bred Winner’s Classic Pedigree
Saturday’s TAB Listed Gold Bowl winner Crimson King (Dynasty) hails from one of the most enduring families in the studbook. A full-brother to four time winner and Listed East Cape Guineas third King Regent, Crimson King’s dam Cup Of Rubies (Mogok) won three times and her half-brother Hunting Tower (Fort Wood) won both the 2007 […]
Ridgemont Feature Treble
The Championships Finale day at Turffontein on Saturday proved a red-letter occasion of some proportions for the Ridgemont team. The Kieswetter family operation in the magnificent Robertson valley has continued as a nursery of champions since their takeover from the Beck family in 2017, and is home to an illustrious line-up of sires, including the […]
Dual Gr1 winner Thunderstruck To Ridgemont
Ridgemont, who enjoyed an extraordinary day on The Championships Finale raceday at Turffontein last Saturday, will welcome dual Gr1 winning sprinter Thunderstruck as a new recruit to their illustrious stallion barn in the Robertson Valley this coming breeding season. A brilliantly fast son of Ridgemont’s resident standout Rafeef, the four-year-old Thunderstruck most recently emulated his […]