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"Juweeltjie" (Flori Clan) & Foal

"Juweeltjie" (Flori Clan) & Groom

Stallion "Glimlag" (Tryffles) & his foals on Haasfontein.

JMM "Kotie" Spies with "Polka"

Kerneels Spies with "Voorslag", his riding horse and trusted dog "Witfoet" after a hunt on their farm Haasfontein.

Tobie Spies as a todler in the mid 1940's on his horse called "Boerseun".

Bush Racing with the Spies Winner "Gogga" that used to race as Peach Clan on the Witwatersrand.

Kerneels Spies with Bush Racing Winner Two Step

Polka

Kerneels Spies with winner "Gogga" (Peach Clan) & ex Jo'burg Jockey Enslin.

CJ "Kerneels" Spies with their Bush Racing star "Vastrap", a retired Brittish thoroughbred import called Sir Bedivere. He gave Tobie Spies as a 7 year old jockey riding in his first Bush Race his first win and father & son team, Kerneels & Tobie once won all 5 races for thoroughbreds on the same day with "Vastrap"

Mantilla

Tobie & Annatjie Spies with Mantilla winning her 3rd race.

Fearless Fred with co-owners Fred & Pat Hilton.

Mark's Uncle, Derrick Hilton from Newton le Willows in the UK was one of my first patrons when I started as a trainer in 2000. He owned very good race mare Casper's Lady.

Tobie & Annatjie Spies with Mantilla winning her 3rd race.

Tobie Spies leading in his first winnier as an Owner Trainer called Mantilla. Trained from Blesbok Mine village (Middelburg East Transvaal) where he was the Chief Mining Surveyor at the time.

Fearless Fred winning for childhood friends, Mark, William & Frakie's parentes Fred & Pat Hilton and Frank & Adrie Glaeser. Trained by Tobie Spies.

Tobie Spies & Nimble Gnome who grew to big to fit in the starting gates

Mantilla's Sire Peralta that stood at James Goodman's parente's Blair Atholl Stud in the 1970's. Blair Atholl was later sold to Garry Player.

Mantilla

Tobie Spies & Mantilla winning her second race.

Tobie & Annatjie Spies with Mantilla winning her 3rd race.

Fearless Fred with co-owners Fred & Pat Hilton. As kids we would all ride on our bicycles to Aunty Pat's Cantine to buy sweets for 1 cent.

Tobie Spies with Green Goblin in the mid 1970's at Blesbok Mine

Tobie Spies's first breeding attempt with thoroughbred mare "Wilisa" and her foal "Green Goblin" at Blesbok Mine

Mantilla

Mantilla

Mantilla

Tobie Spies & Mantilla

Tobie Spies & Mantilla

Tobie & Annatjie Spies with Mantilla winning her 3rd race.

Ocean Spray with from left to right, Corne Spies, Dalmarie van Zyl, Erik Spies & Annalie van Zyl.

Mantilla

Nimble Gnome

Tobie & Annatjie Spies with Mantilla winning her 3rd race.

Tobie Spies with Sea Cottage (his all time hero race horse) mare "Ocean Spray" on her arrival at Blesbok Mine.

Tobie Spies with Green Goblin in the mid 1970's

Fearless Fred winning for childhood friends, Mark, William & Frakie's parentes Fred & Pat Hilton and Frank & Adrie Glaeser. Trained by Tobie Spies.

I still had the privilege to train "Defender of Peace" for Frank & Adrie between 2014 & 2016

Chic

Time Set

Tobie Spies with ultra distance winner Aced.

Tobie Spies with Chic

Universal Queen.

Time Set

Tobie Spies with Chic

Time Set

Tobie Spies started as stud manager at Trevor & Minou Armitage's Standerton stud farm in 1983 after resigning his position at the coal mines. While managing, then one of the larger studs in SA, he also found time to train many a winner for the famous all red colours of the Armitage's from the track he made through the mielie fields.

Chic

Chic

Chic

Chic

Tobie Spies with ultra distance winner Aced.

Tobie Spies & Universal Queen

Universal Queen

Tobie Spies & Universal Queen

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.

at Cape Racing.