Maine Chance Farms

Multiple group winner Point Lonsdale (Ire) (Australia {GB}) has been sold and will stand at the Jacobs family's Maine Chance Farms in South Africa later this year, according to published reports. The 6-year-old's fee will be announced later. Trained by Aidan O'Brien, Point Lonsdale would go on to be named a 'TDN Rising Star' when winning his debut, and quickly added the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, the G3 Tyros Stakes at Leopardstown and the G2 Futurity Stakes. He was second in the G1 National Stakes, and, after running...

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....

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...

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...

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...