Top Class Prospects Retire To Ridgemont Highlands
Ridgemont Highlands will be welcoming some very well-bred and highly talented racemares to their broodmare band in 2021, with no fewer than 13 fillies or mares are set to join the broodmare band this season.
Top South African Jockey Australia Bound
South Africa looks set to lose another top-class jockey soon, with Callan Murray having recently announced plans to emigrate to Australia. With nine G1 victories to his credit and having been awarded Champion Apprentice for the 2015/16 South African racing season, Murray’s move overseas has come at the right time of his career.
Ridgemont Highlands Dominante July Day Juvenile Feature
Leading Robertson nursery, Ridgemont Highlands, achieved a notable feat on Saturday -with Ridgemont Highlands bred runners Bard Of Avon, William Robertson and Team Gold finishing first, third and fourth in the R400 000 Bloodstock SA Sales Cup.
Super Saturday For Ridgemont Highlands
Leading Cape nursery, Ridgemont Highlands, enjoyed a notable day at Kenilworth on Saturday. Not only did the Robertson based farm breed G3 World Sports Betting Pocket Power Stakes winner Crimson King, the Ridgemont owned pair of Capitana and Iris ran first and second Listed Olympic Duel Stakes.
Capitana Leads Home Ridgemont One-Two In Olympic Duel Stakes
Ridgemont Highlands look to have two very attractive future broodmare prospects in the form of speedy four-year-old Capitana, who defeated fellow Ridgemont owned mare Iris in the Listed Olympic Duel Stakes at Kenilworth.
Pretty Young Thing Retires To Ridemont Highlands
Top-class filly Pretty Young Thing has been retired to stud, and will join Ridgemont Highlands’ growing band of top-class mares.
Foxwedge Speedster Run Fox Run Scores for Ridgemont Racing
The Australian-bred Run Fox Run, making her 5 year old season debut after a 16 week break following a narrow defeat to Gauteng Champion Celtic Sea in the Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint in July, stormed to victory in the Pinnacle Stakes for Ridgemont Racing and Brett Crawford.
Wayne Kieswetter Crowned Cape Champion Owner
Wayne Kieswetter, for many years a leading investor in South African racing and breeding was acknowledged with an appropriate accolade for his overall contribution to racing in the Western Cape, when recently crowned the province’s champion owner of last season.