Gaynor rupert biography of williams

An exotic tale highlighted by a voyage to Africa and a leading sire title all began with an intuitive flash of love at first sight. From the moment Gaynor Rupert, of South Africa, initially viewed the classically molded frame and handsome head of Trippi at Ocala Stud in Florida, she sensed that he was everything she could want as she began to build her Drakenstein Stud Farm in the Western Cape.

He’s the most beautiful horse you will ever see,” Rupert (pictured left) said recently, adding that, even though she inspected many other stallions during her visit to the United States in , she could not get Trippi out of her mind.

Her instinctive attraction to the bay horse, backed by the unassailable facts that Trippi was a speedy G1 winner and a proven sire, ranking as the top stallion in Florida while capable of getting runners on dirt, turf and synthetic surfaces,