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THE TOUGHEST HORSE IN THE WORLD

If you truly love horseracing you need to watch this race. The 2017 G1 Royal Ascot Gold Cup: the flagship race of the world’s flagship racing festival. Run yesterday in front of a record crowd of nearly 70,000 people, the contest climaxed in a nail-biting head-bobbing finish between the two favourites, having pulled six lengths […]

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FOUR MORE FOR PHILANTHROPIST

Drakenstein Stud’s resident sire Philanthropist enjoyed another highly successful weekend, when represented by four winners- on two different continents. The strapping chestnut had a pair of winners in South Africa on Friday, and followed that up with a quickfire double at Woodbine on Sunday. Philanthropist’s four timer kicked off when daughter No Doubt broke her […]

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FEATURE RACE DOUBLE FOR WHAT A WINTER

Drakenstein Stud’s exciting young sire, and South Africa’s Leading First Crop Sire of 2016-2017, What A Winter confirmed his status as one of the hottest young stallions around when his progeny scored a memorable feature race double at Kenilworth on Saturday. First to score was the Rex Stud bred Dutch Philip, who took his tally […]

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TRIPPI FILLY LIFTS CARTIER SCEPTRE STAKES

Drakenstein Stud’s reigning champion sire Trippi celebrated yet another big win on Friday when his blue blooded daughter Live Life downed some of South Africa’s top sprinting fillies to win the G2 Cartier Sceptre Stakes, on the first day of the 2017 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate race meeting at Kenilworth on Friday. Bred by Avontuur Thoroughbred […]