TRIPPI COLT DEFENDS LQP TITLE
Drakenstein Stud’s evergreen champion sire Trippi proved the star stallion at Kenilworth on Saturday. Not only did Trippi’s champion son Jet Dark claim the G1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate for a second year running, Trippi mare Londalozi is the dam of Saturday’s eye catching G2 Glorious Goodwood Premier Trophy winner Hoedspruit. Last season’s Equus Champion 3YO […]
FUTURA DOMINATES JAMAICA HANDICAP
Drakenstein Stud’s exciting young sire, and former G1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner, Futura dominated proceedings in Friday’s Listed Ardmore Jamaica Handicap (2000m), with his daughters Pink Tourmaline and Jasmine finishing first and third respectively. Trained, like her sire, by Brett Crawford, talented four-year-old Pink Tourmaline maintained her unbeaten record over 2000m with a fluent performance […]
TUESDAY DOUBLE FOR FUTURA
Drakenstein Stud’s inform sire Futura had another notable double at Vaal on Tuesday, with his daughter Three Hills capturing the fifth race on the card, and son Supreme Dance victorious in Tuesday’s sixth race. The Corrie Lensley trained Three Hills showed plenty of courage when she won Tuesday’s Tellytrack.com Maiden Plate (F&M) over 2000m.Under a […]
TRIPPI GELDING REPEATS IN CAPE SUMMER STAYERS
Fresh off supplying Tuesday’s G3 World Sports Betting Magnolia (1160m) winner Sound Of Warning, Drakenstein Stud’s champion sire Trippi showed his versatility when his son Crome Yellow successfully defended his title in Saturday’s G3 Cape Summer Stayers Handicap (2400m). Winner of the same race 12 months earlier, the Sabine Plattner bred and owned Crome Yellow […]
GOLD STANDARD’S REARING TO GO
Prominent Cape trainer Glen Kotzen has some very exciting two-year-olds to his name this season. Among them, are some very well bred members of Drakenstein Stud’s exciting young sire Gold Standard, whose eagerly awaited first two-year-olds race this season. Below are some of the Kotzen trained Gold Standard two-year-olds – and they look exciting prospects […]
TRIPPI FILLY CLAIMS MAGNOLIA HANDICAP
Drakenstein Stud’s champion sire Trippi is having another excellent season in 2021-2022, and the son of End Sweep enjoyed further graded stakes success on Tuesday, when his daughter Sound Of Warning ran out a courageous winner of the G3 World Sports Betting Magnolia Handicap (1160m) at Turffontein, with that racemeeting having been postponed from Saturday. […]
WHAT A WINTER TOPS 2YO SALE
Drakenstein Stud’s inform stallion What A Winter provided fireworks at Saturday’s November Two Year Old Sale, when an unnamed daughter of the multiple Equus Champion made R800 000 to top the one day auction. Consigned to the November Sale by Hemel ‘N Aarde Stud, the well bred two-year-old was knocked down to the Hollywood Syndicate […]
SATURDAY TREBLE FOR FUTURA
Fresh off supplying last weekend’s #ThisIsRacing Cape Mile winner Warrior, Drakenstein Stud’s inform stallion Futura had another good day on Saturday when the former Horse Of The Year was responsible for three more winners. Not only was Futura sire of the winners of the first two races run at Kenilworth on Saturday, his G2 Durban […]
FUTURA SON DOWNS JULY WINNER
Drakenstein Stud’s four time G1 winning sire Futura looks to produced a very talented son in the form of the Ridgemont Highlands bred Warrior. The latter accounted for last season’s G1 Vodacom Durban July winner Kommetdieding, among others, when Warrior captured Saturday’s #ThisIsRacing Cape Mile (1600m) at Kenilworth. Trained by Justin Snaith, Warrior, making his […]
GARDENIA GLORY FOR WHAT A WINTER
Drakenstein Stud’s consistently successful What A Winter, Leading Sire of 2YOs in South Africa last season, had a memorable afternoon at Turffontein on Saturday, when his progeny won the fifth and sixth races respectively.His very classy five-year-old daughter Hello Winter Hello made a winning debut for her new connections in Gauteng when storming home to […]