East Cape Nursery glory for Canford Cliffs

Ridgemont Highlands’ five time G1-winning sire Canford Cliffs confirmed his position at the top of the Leading South African First Season Sires List on Friday when his talented two-year-old son Cliff Top ran out a convincing winner of the Listed East Cape Nursery (1200m) at Fairview. The Ridgemont Highlands bred colt, an impressive winner of […]

Pinnacle Becomes Latest Canford Cliffs Winner

Ridgemont Highlands’ inform stallion Canford Cliffs came up with another eye catching two-year-old winner when his first South African crop daughter Pinnacle justified favouritism at Fairview on Monday. Placed in each of her three previous starts, the Gavin Smith trained filly was dispatched a warm favourite for Monday’s Welcome To Nelson Mandela Bay Racing Maiden […]

Canford Cliffs’ Granddaughter Maintains Unbeaten Record

Ridgemont Highlands’ resident sires Canford Cliffs and Rafeef enjoyed a wonderful Saturday, with Rafeef supplying two graded stakes winners at Turffontein, and five-time G1 winner Canford Cliffs’ maternal grandsire of Saturday’s brilliant G2 Amelia Park-Karrakatta Plate winner Amelia’s Jewel. The latter made it three wins from three starts with a powerful performance in Saturday’s Karrakatta […]

Greyville Win For Canford Cliffs’ Big Slick

Ridgemont Highlands’ five time G1 winning stallion Canford Cliffs has made a bright start with his first South African bred and born runners this season, and the former star miler came up with another eye catching winner from his first local crop when his two-year-old son Big Slick got off the mark on Monday. Third […]

Protea Stakes Boost For Malmoos

Ridgemont Highlands’ exciting Triple Crown winning stallion Malmoos gained several handsome updates on Saturday. Not only did Second Base, who finished second to Malmoos in the 2021 G1 World Sports Betting SA Classic, capture Saturday’s G2 Colorado King Stakes, but unbeaten two-year-old Karangetang, an impressive winner of Saturday’s G3 Protea Stakes, hails from the immediate […]

Gimcrack Stakes Success For Canford Cliffs’ Granddaughter

Ridgemont Highlands’ five time G1-winning stallion Canford Cliffs has made a very pleasing start with his first South African bred crop of runners this season, and he also continues to make his mark as a sire of notable winners overseas. Canford Cliffs also achieved a notable feat when his maternal granddaughter Amelia’s Jewel maintained her […]

Whafeef Wins In Style

Ridgemont Highlands’ sensational young sire Rafeef continues to churn out good looking winners by the week, and the son of Redoute’s Choice looks to have another talented sort to his name in the form of Whafeef. The latter showed his class when downing some hard-knocking older rivals to win a good race at the Vaal […]

I Am Regal Impresses On Debut

Ridgemont Highlands’ exciting resident stallion Canford Cliffs came up with his third winner from his first South African born crop when his two-year-old daughter I Am Regal made a winning debut at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday. Trained by Paul Peter, I Am Regal was allowed to start a 5-1 shot for Sunday’s Durban Child And […]

Union Square Romps Home On Debut

Ridgemont Highlands’ red hot resident stallion Rafeef has some very exciting two-year-olds this season, and the G1 winning son of Redoute’s Choice looks to have yet another bright juvenile prospect in the form of Union Square. The latter, a colt trained, like Rafeef himself, by Mike De Kock, lived up to the hype when he […]

Success For De Kock’s Rafeef Filly Bonnaroo

Ridgemont Highlands’ red hot resident stallion Rafeef looks to have yet another potentially smart sort to his hands in the form of Bonnaroo. The latter, trained, like her sire and dam, by Mike de Kock, broke her maiden at the third time of asking when putting up a smart effort at Turffontein on Saturday afternoon. […]