One of the stable’s favourites, GILDED BUTTERFLY maintained her impeccable record when flying home to win the Grade 3, Yellowwood Handicap over 1800m on a great day’s racing. It was a combination of the Pettigrew stable, Ackerman silks and a Flower Alley filly that created a replicate of last year’s winning filly, Bold Fortune. The Flower Alley filly has been so consistent since her first day at the races. To date, the filly has been fortunate enough to earn a stake cheque in

The very predominant black, pink and white colours were on show at the Vaal on Thursday. The silks belong to long time patron of the horse racing industry and particularly to the Pettigrew stable for many years. A very big well done to Mr Ian van Schalkwyk. The owner and stable combination celebrated a double on the day with two fillies, NICE MOVE and PRINCESS PHILIPPA (in partnership with Mr Anton Marx). NICE MOVE was the first into the winners enclosure when winning her mai

When it comes to consistency, GILDED BUTTERFLY is definitely one of the Stable's favorites. The lightly raced 4-year-old filly has now had a total of 10 runs, and never been to the races without earning a stake. She is always game and shows a lot of heart running all the way to the line. This latest win now makes her a 3 time winner, and another progeny of the Flower Alley sire that seem to continue to improve with age. The most exciting part about this latest win was the fac

CAPTAIN PEG showed once again that she was up for the challenge of remaining unbeaten. She is now 4 from 4 and surely a filly in everyone’s notebook for the feature season ahead! The 3-year-old filly was taking a big step up in class and this was certainly her toughest test to date. The progress plate attracted a classy field, with some fillies already being Group race placed and a few held in high regard. With the Jag Peg filly already winning 3 races, this meant carrying to

FEATHER BOA opened up the Pick 6 on Saturday at Turffontein by winning the Bloodstock SA Sales Cup for fillies, a non-black type event with a generous prize pool of R400 000. The stable and connections were very confident coming into the race, especially jockey Randall Simons, who aboard the filly in her penultimate run. He had mentioned in the post-race interview that he was not nervous and “knew she would win”. The beautifully bred Flower Alley filly is just improving with