Graham Beck USA Mares -Legend

The Graceful Saint - Davids Dynasty
Our Table Mountain - Helderberg Blue
Zooming Zellie - Captain Alfredo
For Roselind - Shakespear Lady
Magical Margot - Mambo Master
Dharmasala - Eagle Eye
Wine Dark sea - Cool Chardonay
Lanquid Lady - Dymanic !!!!!!!
Moonlit Prairie - Heartland !!!!!!!
Overarching - great mare
Riveriersonder end UK bred also great mare
charmz - Grey light
Lavender Lake - Lavender landscape
Himalayan Mountains good mare

Sylvester wrote: The Graceful Saint - Davids Dynasty
Our Table Mountain - Helderberg Blue
Zooming Zellie - Captain Alfredo
For Roselind - Shakespear Lady
Magical Margot - Mambo Master
Dharmasala - Eagle Eye
Wine Dark sea - Cool Chardonay
Lanquid Lady - Dymanic !!!!!!!
Moonlit Prairie - Heartland !!!!!!!
Overarching - great mare
Riveriersonder end UK bred also great mare
charmz - Grey light
Lavender Lake - Lavender landscape
Himalayan Mountains good mare

You mentioned Riviersonderend although British bred, then surely Dancer's Daughter deserves a mention. Definitely best of the lot.

I struggled to find this post. so bump

Our prized Jewel going the right way

Royal Blue runs on Monday. very well related

another nice win

Sylvester wrote: Our prized Jewel going the right way

Van Hunks nice win. very full of itself going to the start

How Devil’s Peak Got its Name: What You Need to Know about Windy Days in Cape Town!

It’s the time of year when the wind blows great guns in Cape Town – just on some days, though. Clouds spill down dramatically over the great Table Mountain that has been the Mother City’s signature feature for centuries. When the good old South-Easter tugs at hemlines and hairdos and we see the tablecloth descending over the mountain, we have a favourite story that we tell.

It’s about how Devil’s Peak got its no-nonsense name – Devil’s Peak is the smaller chunk to the left of Table Mountain when looked at from the direction of the V&A Waterfront.

Once upon a time very long ago, long before we had the wonderful V&A Waterfront development, there lived at the Cape a formidable pirate from Holland whose name was Jan Van Hunks. Van Hunks had reached the end of a chequered career of plunder at sea, and he had retired to a better life on the slopes of majestic Table Mountain.

It was his way to while away the hours at his favourite spot on the mountain, smoking his pipe and enjoying the view – and isn’t it just great!

One day, as he sat smoking at his special nook, he met a man in black, with a large black hat covering his face. To be cordial, Van Hunks went and sat beside the man, took out his pipe and began to smoke. The stranger took out his pipe and followed suit, saying, “I’ll wager that I can smoke more than you.” Now Van Hunks was a confident smoker, and so willingly accepted the wager.

The contest began and huge clouds of smoke billowed up around them and spilled down like a tablecloth over Table Mountain. Van Hunks persevered until the stranger finally set down his pipe in defeat. And he revealed himself to be none other than the devil!

And so, for ever more when the clouds cascade over the mountain, we sit down here and speculate whether Van Hunks and the Devil are having a smoke.

Overarching 23 years old. She has produced some very good babies.

PRETTY PRECIOUS - debuts Kenilworth 6 December 2023. corrected the date

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.......not too bad for the ratio of the total of mares he imported....however not largely reported but he was said to have imported over 50 mares from USA alone....

.....I actually met Mr Beck in the mid 80's when I was employed by an Italian Coal shipping company at the time and he had established the Richards Bay bulk coal handing terminal ... I was then young dumb and knew f@ckall about breeding and the extent of his racing empire....he was very straight forward, down to earth quite jovial but a very shrewd negotiator.... in the meetings I was a mouth full of teeth and never said a word as my Italian boss did all the talking and then negotiating shipping contracts...... but I was actually sh!tting myself that he would ask me if I was involved in horse racing but thankfully he never brought up the subject....:blink:

some years later I was reintroduced to him when he was at the Squires Loft in Sandton and he popped downstairs to the tote there to watch a race....I was totally gobsmacked when he asked me if I was still with that "Italian" crowd.....