Wilgerbosdrift’s popular resident sire Flower Alley will be represented by a runner in the G2 Dance Smartly Stakes at Woodbine this Saturday. Run on the same day as the Canadian classic Queen’s Plate, the Dance Smartly is open to fillies and mares and is contested over 2000m on turf. Flower Alley’s representative is Flower Fashion, Read more about Flower Alley filly for Dance Smartly Stakes[…]
Wilgerbosdrift’s two popular young stallions Flower Alley and Soft Falling Rain will both be well represented at next month’s KZN Yearling Sale. Travers Stakes winner Flower Alley, the only sire ever to come to stud in Africa having sired a Kentucky Derby winner, has made a considerable splash with his first local yearlings in 2018. Read more about WILGERBOSDRIFT SIRES WELL REPRESENTED AT KZN SALE[…]
Wilgerbosdrift’s well performed resident sire Flower Alley enjoyed a notable Thursday double yesterday, with sons of the Distorted Humor sire scoring at both Penn National and Finger Lakes. Consistent five-year-old Flower Alley gelding The Accuser has done nothing wrong in 2018 thus far, and he picked up his second victory from four starts this year Read more about Thursday double for Flower Alley[…]
Wilgerbosdrift’s regally related mare Europa Point is a half-sister to Elerfaan (by Shamardal), who made won at the second time of asking at Beverley racecourse on Wednesday. The four-year-old gelding, second on debut, romped home to land a novice stakes over seven and a half furlongs by four lengths in good style. Elerfaan and multiple Read more about British success for Europa Point sibling[…]
Wilgerbosdrift’s exciting resident stallion Flower Alley has been enjoying a purple patch with his runners of late, and the 2005 G1 Travers Stakes winner was at it again on Monday. This time, it was Flower Alley’s 3yo daughter Distinctive Flower who came to the fore, with a dazzling victory at Thistledown. Making just her second Read more about Brilliant US winner for Flower Alley[…]
Wilgerbosdrift’s popular young stallion Soft Falling Rain is a half-brother to a potential Equus Award contender in the form of Let It Rain. The latter, like Soft Falling Rain bred by Highlands, stamped himself a contender for the Equus Champion Stayer award when making much of the running to land the G3 World Sports Betting Read more about GOLD BOWL GLORY FOR LET IT RAIN[…]
Splendid Garden, a Black Minnaloushe half-brother to Wilgerbosdrift’s popular young stallion Soft Falling Rain, picked up the sixth win of his career when scoring a one and a quarter length victory in a MR 96 handicap over 1200m at Turffontein on Workers Day. Trained by Mike and Adam Azzie, the gelding was steered to victory Read more about SOFT FALLING RAIN SIBLING SCORES[…]
Wilgerbosdrift’s highly successful stallion Flower Alley had a major turf success at Santa Anita on Sunday. His consistent son Nessy landed the first graded win of his career when victorious in the G3 San Juan Capistrano Stakes, downing a high-class field in the process. An own-brother to recently deceased G1 winner Bullards Alley, Nessy picked Read more about Flower Alley son wins San Juan Capistrano[…]
Wilgerbosdrift’s successful sire Flower Alley is best known as the sire of US champion and Kentucky Derby/Preakness Stakes winner I’ll Have Another. He is also, however, an extremely successful “turf” sire, with Flower Alley having already produced numerous high class stakes winners who fared best on the grass. Two of the sire’s four G1 winners Read more about FLOWER ALLEY-A TURF SUCCESS[…]
Wilgerbosdrift will, once again, be offering a high-quality draft of yearlings at the 2018 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale at the end of April. The farm’s 28 strong draft is dominated by yearlings by Wilgerbosdrift’s resident sires Flower Alley and Soft Falling Rain, with the former represented by 13 members of his first South African Read more about WILGERBOSDRIFT’S NATIONAL SALE DRAFT[…]