DUKE OF MARMALADE FILLY MAKES £1MILLION
Drakenstein Stud’s top class sire Duke Of Marmalade was back in the news on the second day of the 2017 Tattersalls December Mares Sale on Tuesday. His four time stakes winning daughter Modernstone was knocked down to Ballylinch for 1 000 000 guineas. The seven-year-old mare, who sold in foal to Galileo –sire of Duke Of Marmalade’s […]
CHAMPION SIRE DOES IT AGAIN
Drakenstein Stud’s resident Champion sire Trippi enjoyed his second win in the R2 500 000 Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes when his Drakenstein Stud and Team Valor International bred daughter Miss Katalin won the 1400m contest at Kenilworth on Saturday. Trained by Justin Snaith, who also handles Trippi’s very promising 3yo son Cot Campbell, Miss Katalin produced […]
19th FIRST CROP WINNER FOR WHAT A WINTER
Drakenstein Stud’s exciting young stallion What A Winter was represented by his 19th first crop winner when his son Red Eight saluted at Kenilworth on Wednesday. Trained by Vaughan Marshall, and steered to victory by MJ Byleveld, Red Eight ran on stoutly to register his first win over 1200m after four consecutive second place finishers. Bred […]
STAKES WIN FOR DUKE’S REGALLY CONNECTED DAUGHTER
Drakenstein Stud’s top class sire Duke Of Marmalade, whose son Marmelo contests Tuesday’s G1 Emirates Melbourne Cup, was represented by his 35th individual stakes winner when his daughter Daphne landed Thursday’s Listed 32Red EBF Stallions River Fillies Eden at Lingfield yesterday. The four-year-old Daphne, who races for her breeder The Queen, was settled close to the […]
BIG WEEKEND FOR TRIPPI
Former champion sire Trippi enjoyed a really memorable weekend this past week. The prolific son of End Sweep was not only represented by four individual winners in South Africa, but Trippi also features as the broodmare sire of Saturday’s impressive US graded stakes winner Miss Sunset. The latter, a daughter of Into Mischief, picked up […]
DUKE FILLY DOWNS COLTS IN PRIX DU CONSEIL DE PARIS
Drakenstein Stud’s resident sire Duke Of Marmalade is no stranger to having high-class daughters to his name and the Cartier Champion appears to have another top-class daughter in the form of Traffic Jam. The latter picked up the first Group win of her career when victorious, at the expense of some talented male rivals, in […]
BIG WEEKEND AHEAD FOR THE DUKE
Drakenstein Stud’s resident sire Duke Of Marmalade is the sire of the consistent filly Traffic Jam, who is set to contest the G2 Qatar Prix de Royallieu at Chantilly this Saturday. Trained by Nicolas Clement, Traffic Jam, bred on the same Duke Of Marmalade/Sadler’s Wells cross as retired champion Simple Verse, was second, two starts […]
FEATURE RACE TREBLE FOR DUKE OF MARMALADE
Drakenstein Stud’s top class resident sire Duke Of Marmalade has been in great form of late, with his offspring landing three feature races over the past few days. First of Duke Of Marmalade’s progeny to score was his daughter Responsibleforlove, who picked up her second black type victory when landing Wednesday’s CTT & Toc Handicap […]
DOUBLE AWARDS GLORY FOR WHAT A WINTER
Drakenstein Stud’s leading young sire What A Winter, officially South Africa’s Leading First Crop Sire for 2016-2017, was back in the news at the Cape Breeders/Racing Awards evening on Wednesday. Not only was the triple Equus Champion honoured as the Cape Breeders’ Outstanding New Stallion Of The Year, but What A Winter’s brilliant, unbeaten daughter […]
WHAT A WINTER TOPS FIRST CROP SIRES LIST
Drakenstein Stud’s exciting stallion What A Winter made a tremendous start to his stud career last season and he has officially ended the 2016-2017 season as South Africa’s Leading First Crop Sire by stakes earned. A triple Equus Champion and four time G1 winner, What A Winter ends the season with his 10 juvenile winners […]