Maine Chance Farms | Horse Racing Free Tips

Ross Fuller Appointed Stud Manager Of Maine Chance Farms

Ross Fuller has been appointed the new stud manager at Main Chance Farms in South Africa, the stud announced on Wednesday. The Sporting Post first reported the new appointment.

Previously a team member at prestigious farms Wilgerbosdrift, Drakenstein and Ridgemont, Fuller returns to South Africa after stints in Australia and England.

“While our horses are the proud flagships of our brand, we pride ourselves on quality and professionalism of the highest order and our people are an integral factor in our success,” Maine Chance's Dr. Andreas Jacobs told the publication. “We thus have great pleasure in welcoming Ross Fuller, a leader in his profession, and a man who will be well known to many in the South African breeding fraternity.

“Ross Fuller has demonstrated that he shares our ethics and a love of the thoroughbred racehorse. He will be part of a dynamic team that includes passionate horsewomen in Hundra Prins and Danni Kuttel, horsemen Tom Quata and Jackson Nkomphela, and a loyal staff complement that we are justly proud of.”

The operation has been champion breeder in South Africa multiple times, and is the breeder of record of reigning Equus Horse of the Year Princess Calla (SAf) (Flower Alley), who is making a Breeders' Cup bid later this year.

Fuller added, “After spending a number of years abroad, I look forward to the opportunity of returning and working with an industry leader in Maine Chance.”

The post Ross Fuller Appointed Stud Manager Of Maine Chance Farms appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

Source of original post

BSA August 2YO Sale Topped by Vercingetorix Filly

The second session of the BSA August Two-Year-Old Sale proved more adventurous than the first as four of the five seven-digit purchases came during the portion of the event. The crowning draft arrived in the form of Lucrative (Saf), who topped the sale at R1,400,000 and cemented Vercingetorix as the top sire with an aggregate of R7,300,000 from 12 lots sold.

The jewel of the Maine Chance Farms (pty) Ltd. consignment, the bay daughter of Querari (Ger) mare La Collossa (Saf) hails from a busy Group-winning and performing family including MGSP-Fr La Banderilla (Fr) (Muhtathir {GB}) and German champion MG1SW-Ger & GSP-US Lomitas (GB) (Niniski)–grandsire of Vercingetorix–through the female line of La Colorada (Ger), the German champion 2-year-old filly of her year. La Collossa does not claim quite the race record but has produced a winner from two of racing age counting Lucrative.

Of the 257 lots offered for the two-day auction, 245 sold (95.3%) for an aggregate of R59,690,000. The average was R244,631 and the median was R160,000.

The post BSA August 2YO Sale Topped by Vercingetorix Filly appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

Source of original post

Champion South African Sire Silvano Dies

Silvano (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}-Spirit of Eagles, by Beau's Eagle), a multiple champion sire in South Africa, has died aged 25 at Maine Chance Farms, the stud reported via Twitter. Silvano had been pensioned since last October.

A second-generation stallion bred by the Jacobs family's Gestut Fahrhof, Silvano won the G2 Oppenheim-Colonia-Union-

Rennen for trainer Andreas Wohler at four and added the G2 Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft at five. He headed off on a global campaign thereafter, finishing fifth in the G1 Hong Kong Vase that season before taking the Singapore Cup the following March at six. He was third in the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic before returning to Hong Kong to take the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup. He ventured to the U.S. later that year to take the GI Arlington Million and finish second in the GI Man O' War S.

Silvano began his stud career at Gestut Fahrhof in 2002, the same year that Andreas Jacobs purchased Maine Chance Farms in South Africa. Silvano's journey South to Maine Chance during the second half of 2003 was meant to be a shuttle trip, but an outbreak of African Horse Sickness during his trip made travel plans much more complicated. Aside from a brief sojourn back to Germany in 2009, Silvano stayed in South Africa for good.

Silvano has thus far sired 25 Group 1 winners, headed in earnings by the current champion and five-time Group 1 winner Hawwaam (SAf). Others of note include the globetrotting Vercingetorix (SAf), G1 Durban July winners Marinaresco (SAf), Heavy Metal (SAf), Bold Silvano (SAf) and Power King (SAf) and G1 Deutsches Derby winner Lucky Speed (Ger), a product of Silvano's 2009 German crop.

The post Champion South African Sire Silvano Dies appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

Source of original post

South African Champion Sire Silvano Pensioned

Silvano (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}-Spirit of Eagles, by Beau’s Eagle), a globetrotting Group 1 winner and champion sire in South Africa, has been pensioned from stud duty at Maine Chance Farms aged 25.

Home-bred by the Jacobs family’s Gestut Fahrhof in Germany-as his sire Lomitas had been-Silvano won the G2 Oppenheim-Colonia-Union-Rennen for trainer Andreas Wohler at four and added the G2 Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft at five. He headed off on a global campaign thereafter, finishing fifth in the G1 Hong Kong Vase that season before taking the Singapore Cup the following March at six. He was third in the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic before returning to Hong Kong to take the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup. He ventured to the U.S. later that year to take the GI Arlington Million and finish second in the GI Man O’ War S.

Silvano began his stud career at Gestut Fahrhof in 2002, the same year that Andreas Jacobs purchased Maine Chance Farms in South Africa. Silvano’s journey South to Maine Chance during the second half of 2003 was meant to be a shuttle trip, but an outbreak of African Horse Sickness during his trip made travel plans much more complicated. Aside from a brief sojourn back to Germany in 2009, Silvano stayed in South Africa for good.

The post South African Champion Sire Silvano Pensioned appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

Source of original post