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KZN BREEDERS AWARDS.
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Caption: Buy And Sell, bred by Bruce and Nadine le Roux's Spring Valley Stud, won the Horse Of The Year Award for the second year running at the KZN Breeders Awards on Friday night. Pictured from left, Bruce le Roux, Jonathan le Roux and his girlfriend Paula Fawcett, Keri le Roux and Nadine le Roux.
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1 DECEMBER 2008
The National Emblem gelding Buy And Sell, bred by Bruce and Nadine le Roux’s Spring Valley Stud, walked away with the Kwazulu-Natal Breeders, Horse of the Year award for the second year running at a glittering banquet held last Friday evening. Buy And Sell’s dam, the late Trade Enquiry, also repeated last year’s feat of being named Broodmare of the Year.
KZN imported more stallions last season than the rest of the country combined and chairman of the KZN Breeders, Warwick Render, said that factors such as this and the record-shattering Emperor’s Palace Ready To Run Sale in the face of a tough economic climate epitomized the region’s soaring fortunes.
Render added that a telling sign of the regions’ increased depth was that their stakes winning or placed horses were produced by 32 different individual breeders.
These horses achieved 124 stakes wins or places, 21 of which came in Grade I races. The Grade I winners among them were Buy And Sell, Wendywood, Gypsy’s Warning and Outcome.
Mick and Cheryl Goss’s Summerhill Stud won the Breeding Achievement Award in recognition of their fourth national champion breeders title.
A new name on the list of winners this year in the form of Yellow Star Stud, whose London News filly, Oracle News, won the Outstanding Female Sprinter award.
Yellow Star Stud is owned by Johannesburg money broker, Koos de Klerk, and his wife, Lorainne, who formerly worked for Summerhill. De Klerk owns the farm upon which Craig Ramsay’s Golden Acres stud is run and Yellow Star Stud’s mares stand on the same land.
Buy And Sell’s second career Grade I win in the Champions Cup over 1800m at Clairwood, in which he defeated Pocket Power and Dancer’s Daughter, clinched his three awards as he was also named Outstanding Middle Distance Male and Outstanding Older Male.
Buy And Sell’s dam, Trade Enquiry, has produced two Grade I winners, the other being the Among Men filly Count The Money, and she currently has another promising horse-in-training, the three-year-old Fort Wood filly, Bedloe’s Island, who, like Buy And Sell, is trained by Sean Tarry. Her last foal, a colt by Malhub, is now a two-year-old.
Joining Spring Valley with four awards was the Rathmor Stud of Mike and Tanya McHardy.
They won the KZN Breeder’s Special Award for producing two Grade I winners in Wendywood and Gypsy’s Warning. The latter garnered the Outstanding Two-year-old filly award, while the late Wendywood was named Outstanding Female Stayer and Outstanding Three-year-old Filly.
Summerhill collected six awards including their Breeding Achievement Award. The others were Outstanding Male Sprinter (Rebel King), Outstanding Male Stayer (Galant Gagnant), Outstanding Three-year-old colt (Imbongi), Stallion Of The Year (Muhtafal) and Stallion Prospect (Labeeb). The Stallion Prospect award raised one or two eyebrows as Labeeb is dead, but countrywide there was a lack of precocious two-year-olds produced by first-season sires last season.
A KZN first season sire, Bezrin, was however responsible for KZN Breeders Outstanding Two-year-old colt, Thunderflash, who was bred by Jonathan and Cathy Martin.
The Outstanding Middle Distance Female and Outstanding Older Female awards were both won by the Peter Brown-bred Garden Province winner, Outcome.
The Anita Akal Industry Award honoured Des Scott, who owned the likes of July winners Illustrador and Devon Air, and currently owns the exciting three-year-old colt, Lord London. Scott Brothers bred another July winner, Politician, and Des, who has been on many racing boards in his time, was instrumental in establishing the TBA’s own sales complex at Gosforth Park.
The full listing of awards are as follows:
Outstanding Two-year-old Filly - Gypsy’s Warning (Rathmor Stud)
Outstanding Two-year-old Colt - Thunderflash (Mr & Mrs J Martin)
Outstanding Sprinter Female - Oracle News (Yellow Star Stud)
Outstanding Sprinter Male - Rebel King (Summerhill Stud)
Outstanding Middle Distance Female - Outcome (P Brown)
Outstanding Middle Distance Male - Buy And Sell (Mr & Mrs B Le Roux)
Outstanding Stayer Female - Wendywood (Rathmor Stud)
Outstanding Stayer Male - Galant Gagnant (Summerhill Stud)
Outstanding Three-year-old Filly - Wendywood (Rathmor Stud)
Outstanding Three-year-old Colt - Imbongi (Summerhill Stud)
Outstanding Older Female - Outcome (P Brown)
Outstanding Older Male - Buy And Sell (Mr & Mrs B Le Roux)
Broodmare Of The Year - Trade Enquiry (Mr & Mrs B Le Roux)
Stallion Of The Year - Muhtafal (Summerhill Stud)
Stallion Prospect Of The Year - Labeeb (Summerhill Stud)
Breeding Achievement - Summerhill Stud
KZN Breeder’s Special Award - Rathmor Stud
Anita Akal Industry Award - Des Scott
Horse Of The Year - Buy And Sell (Mr & Mrs B Le Roux)
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Gill Simpkins
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1 DECEMBER 2008
The National Emblem gelding Buy And Sell, bred by Bruce and Nadine le Roux’s Spring Valley Stud, walked away with the Kwazulu-Natal Breeders, Horse of the Year award for the second year running at a glittering banquet held last Friday evening. Buy And Sell’s dam, the late Trade Enquiry, also repeated last year’s feat of being named Broodmare of the Year.
KZN imported more stallions last season than the rest of the country combined and chairman of the KZN Breeders, Warwick Render, said that factors such as this and the record-shattering Emperor’s Palace Ready To Run Sale in the face of a tough economic climate epitomized the region’s soaring fortunes.
Render added that a telling sign of the regions’ increased depth was that their stakes winning or placed horses were produced by 32 different individual breeders.
These horses achieved 124 stakes wins or places, 21 of which came in Grade I races. The Grade I winners among them were Buy And Sell, Wendywood, Gypsy’s Warning and Outcome.
Mick and Cheryl Goss’s Summerhill Stud won the Breeding Achievement Award in recognition of their fourth national champion breeders title.
A new name on the list of winners this year in the form of Yellow Star Stud, whose London News filly, Oracle News, won the Outstanding Female Sprinter award.
Yellow Star Stud is owned by Johannesburg money broker, Koos de Klerk, and his wife, Lorainne, who formerly worked for Summerhill. De Klerk owns the farm upon which Craig Ramsay’s Golden Acres stud is run and Yellow Star Stud’s mares stand on the same land.
Buy And Sell’s second career Grade I win in the Champions Cup over 1800m at Clairwood, in which he defeated Pocket Power and Dancer’s Daughter, clinched his three awards as he was also named Outstanding Middle Distance Male and Outstanding Older Male.
Buy And Sell’s dam, Trade Enquiry, has produced two Grade I winners, the other being the Among Men filly Count The Money, and she currently has another promising horse-in-training, the three-year-old Fort Wood filly, Bedloe’s Island, who, like Buy And Sell, is trained by Sean Tarry. Her last foal, a colt by Malhub, is now a two-year-old.
Joining Spring Valley with four awards was the Rathmor Stud of Mike and Tanya McHardy.
They won the KZN Breeder’s Special Award for producing two Grade I winners in Wendywood and Gypsy’s Warning. The latter garnered the Outstanding Two-year-old filly award, while the late Wendywood was named Outstanding Female Stayer and Outstanding Three-year-old Filly.
Summerhill collected six awards including their Breeding Achievement Award. The others were Outstanding Male Sprinter (Rebel King), Outstanding Male Stayer (Galant Gagnant), Outstanding Three-year-old colt (Imbongi), Stallion Of The Year (Muhtafal) and Stallion Prospect (Labeeb). The Stallion Prospect award raised one or two eyebrows as Labeeb is dead, but countrywide there was a lack of precocious two-year-olds produced by first-season sires last season.
A KZN first season sire, Bezrin, was however responsible for KZN Breeders Outstanding Two-year-old colt, Thunderflash, who was bred by Jonathan and Cathy Martin.
The Outstanding Middle Distance Female and Outstanding Older Female awards were both won by the Peter Brown-bred Garden Province winner, Outcome.
The Anita Akal Industry Award honoured Des Scott, who owned the likes of July winners Illustrador and Devon Air, and currently owns the exciting three-year-old colt, Lord London. Scott Brothers bred another July winner, Politician, and Des, who has been on many racing boards in his time, was instrumental in establishing the TBA’s own sales complex at Gosforth Park.
The full listing of awards are as follows:
Outstanding Two-year-old Filly - Gypsy’s Warning (Rathmor Stud)
Outstanding Two-year-old Colt - Thunderflash (Mr & Mrs J Martin)
Outstanding Sprinter Female - Oracle News (Yellow Star Stud)
Outstanding Sprinter Male - Rebel King (Summerhill Stud)
Outstanding Middle Distance Female - Outcome (P Brown)
Outstanding Middle Distance Male - Buy And Sell (Mr & Mrs B Le Roux)
Outstanding Stayer Female - Wendywood (Rathmor Stud)
Outstanding Stayer Male - Galant Gagnant (Summerhill Stud)
Outstanding Three-year-old Filly - Wendywood (Rathmor Stud)
Outstanding Three-year-old Colt - Imbongi (Summerhill Stud)
Outstanding Older Female - Outcome (P Brown)
Outstanding Older Male - Buy And Sell (Mr & Mrs B Le Roux)
Broodmare Of The Year - Trade Enquiry (Mr & Mrs B Le Roux)
Stallion Of The Year - Muhtafal (Summerhill Stud)
Stallion Prospect Of The Year - Labeeb (Summerhill Stud)
Breeding Achievement - Summerhill Stud
KZN Breeder’s Special Award - Rathmor Stud
Anita Akal Industry Award - Des Scott
Horse Of The Year - Buy And Sell (Mr & Mrs B Le Roux)
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Gill Simpkins
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