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NOTWITHSTANDING the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, the 2019/20 racing season will forever be etched in our memories for the heights reached by our stallions and their progeny. Read all about it in our October Newsletter
NOTWITHSTANDING the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, the 2019/20 racing season will forever be etched in our memories for the heights reached by our stallions and their progeny. Read all about it in our October Newsletter
Read about our successful Gold Cup day in our September newsletter: click here
Regardless of who owns the horses bred and raised on Varsfontein Stud, all are subject to the same "winning recipe". So our excitement is no less when our clients taste success on the race course as it adds "proof to the pudding". This recipe of success has proven...
Sporting Post reports: The trainer of Vodacom Durban July runner-up Got The Greenlight says his 3yo was beaten fair and square in a very fair race by a horse that always looked the one to beat. He has only one gripe about a terrific day ‘that all involved can be...
Article from Cape Breeders: Varsfontein Stud’s prominent More Than Ready was responsible for a second G1 Daily News 2000 winner, in the last three years, when his champion son Got The Greenlight captured the 2020 Daily News 2000 at Hollywoodbets Greyville on...
MUCH to our delight, trainer Geoff Woodruff is planning to return to Cape Town following a successful 20-year stint on the Highveld. Remarkably, Geoff's relationship with Varsfontein stretches back to the late 80s when he ventured out on his own and we sent him the...
WHILE many of our readers will find themselves with extra time of their hands during the lockdown, it's been pretty much business as usual here on the farm. For many though, this has been a time of reflection, even nostalgia. Others have been delving into racing...
Article courtesy of Turf Talk: TEAM Valor International's owner Barry Irwin threw up his hands in despair and exclaimed to his wife, "What else can happen?" He was watching the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf at Churchill Downs and his homebred colt Pluck had first...