For over 20 years Leading Breeders and Vendors in South Africa

Highlands Farm owned by the late Graham Beck is located in the fertile, lime rich Robertson Valley, the heart of the South African thoroughbred breeding industry.

The stud, encompasses approximately 100 hectacres and lies in the same valley as the Graham Beck wine farm Madeba, home of the GRAHAM BECK Wines – one of  South Africa’s leading wine estates.

Racing ability

That is the one criterion uppermost in our minds when evaluating new stallion prospects. For seldomly does a stallion succeed at stud who has not shown to possess superior ability. All our stallions have it. Most showed it on the track.

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ANTONIUS PIUS (USA)

A son of Danzig out of a Gr1 Oaks winner, was a leading miler and rated 123 by Timeform. At 2yo he was a Gr2 winner. At 3 he was runner up in the Gr1 Breeders Cup Mile and 3rd in the Gr1 French 2000 Guineas. In 2012, his first South African crop of yearlings will be sold.

DYNASTY

A son of the Champion sire Fort Wood. Horse of the Year and Champion Classic 3yo in 2003. He was the highest rated 3yo ever to win the Gr1 Durban July. Dynasty is the first 3yo Horse of the Year in SA to sire a 3yo Horse of The Year in his first crop -  Horse of The Year “Irish Flame”, a dual Gr1 winner and Ancetsral Fore, winner of the Gr1 Gold Cup, who broke the 22 year old record as 3yo winner of the Gold Cup.

IMPERIAL STRIDE (GB)

Ranked as one of the World’s best racehorses and rated by Timeform at 127, he won 5 stakes race in a row. A son of Indian Ridge, out the Sadler’s Wells mare Place de l’Opera, from the family of Count Dubois.In 2012, his first South African crop of yearlings will be sold.

JALLAD (USA)

A Champion sire in 2002, Champion runner up 2003, 2004, 2005 and sire of multiple Gr1/2/3 winners.

SPECTRUM (IRE)

The fastest son of Rainbow Quest and winner of Gr1 Irish 2000 Guineas and Gr1 Champion Stakes. He has proven to be a sire of Gr1 winners of both sexes in both hemispheres. While as broodmare sire he hit the limelight with dual Gr1 winner Dutch Art and Gr1 winner Winchester.

WINDRUSH (USA)

A son of Seeking The Gold, sire of world champion Dubai Millennium, he is out of a dam who is full sister to a Gr1 Kentucky Oaks winner. Windrush is the sire of the 2010 Champion filly Mother Russia and winner of the 2011 Gr1 l’Ormarins Queens Plate and from his first crop was sire of the Cape Champion filly Diana’s Choice.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (CAN)

Now retired but still with a crop of yearlings for 2011 and 2012.

Sire of Gr1 winners of both sexes and a sire-of-sire, National Emblem. For 15 seasons National Assembly was a leading stallion, and sire of the Horse of the Year – National Colour.