Ready to Race Diary: Summerhill Graduates

Ready to Race Notable Summerhill Graduates for the Past 3 Seasons

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1.     Icy Air (cost R60 000) Champion Three Year Old Filly and Champion Older Mare in South Africa.

2.     Disappear (cost R160 000) Winner of seven races including the Gr.1 Mercury Sprint in 2005.

3.     Talahatchie (cost R150 000) Winner of the Gr. 1 Premiers Champion Juvenile Stakes in 2005.

4.     Cereus (cost R85 000). Winner of the Gold Cup (Gr. 1) and more than R1 million in stakes.

5.     Bold Ellinore (cost R120 000) Winner this season of the KZN Fillies Guineas. (pr. Gr. 1) defeating six Group One winners in the process. One of the best fillies of her generation.

6.     Fork Lightening (cost R75 000). Winner of seven races including second Cape of Good Hope Guineas (Gr. 1) beaten a short head by Champion Rabiyah, and second in the Gomma Gomma Summer Cup (Gr 1), South Africa’s richest race.

7.     Amphitheatre (cost R30 000). Multiple Group One performer and earner of R1.35 million in stakes.

8.     Rambo’s Jewel (cost R60 000). Horse of the Year in KZN.

9.     Coastal Waltz (cost R60 000). Horse of the Year Eastern Cape.

10.   Brigadier Parker (cost R45 000) Horse of the Year Eastern Cape.

11.   Hear the Drums (cost R45 000). Champion Three Year Old Colt, Eastern Cape in 2006.

12.   Hard to Get (cost R100 000). Champion Two Year Old Filly, Eastern Cape in 2006.

13.   Nondweni. (cost R80 000) Champion Three Year Old Filly, Eastern Cape in 2005.

14.   Fanyana (cost R95 000) Winner of 9 races as a Three Year Old in 2005/6 including two Group One performances.

15.   Bianconi (cost R95 000) Winner of the Golden Horseshoe (Gr.1) and the first horse (of only two) ever to defeat Dynasty. Also a winner on three occasions in Dubai.

16.   Dignify (cost R100 000). Winner of the Golden Slipper (Gr 1).

17.   Real Red (cost R100 000) one of the better fillies of her generation, trained by Mike de Kock, and defeated only a head by Horse of the Year Winter Solstice, at weight for age, defeating three Group One winners in the event.

18.   Majestic Sun (cost R50 000) Winner of seven races this last season as a three year old, including two Graded stakes performances.

19.   Bridal Paths winner of the Thekwini Stakes (Gr. 1).

20.   Royal Emblem winner of the Thekwini Stakes (Gr.1).