When last year’s lucky KZN-sale graduates come under starter’s orders on July-day for the Million Rand race, the tickets for the same lottery in 2015 will have been sold. That sale takes place on the two days prior to this year’s July, at Suncoast Casino. Of course, it isn’t all about that one Million Rand race, as the connections of Louis The King will happily tell you. There are many other millions to be made from the KZN sale!
A cursory glance over the sales past graduates proves that this sale produces horses suited to all courses and distances and at serious value for money. A few of the best have even walked through unsold. Oldlands-bred 2012 SA Fillies Guineas winner Go Indigo passed through the ring unsold in 2010. Another to have an untroubled trip was this year’s Triple Crown winner Louis The King who, luckily for Geoff Woodruff, passed through the ring in 2012 without meeting his R55k reserve. Another to be overlooked in 2012 was Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery winner Virgo’s Babe, produced by Midlands Thoroughbreds.
The value is undeniable. Ace Antonius was knocked down for R40k (he won the Million race in 2013), Knock On Wood sold for R140k, Seal was deemed worth R210k and Happy Valentine went under the hammer for R240k . All that without the added Million race carrot.
What’s on offer
There are some 260 lots on offer, half/half colts and fillies, from 57 different sires. Top sires with yearlings on offer include Captain Al, Fort Wood, Judpot, Kahal, Silvano, Trippi and Var. There are freshman sires, as well as opportunities to grab second season progeny and a last opportunity to grab the progeny of a few sires that have moved on.
The catalogue boats two Equus Champions with Spring Valley Stud’s Dare To Dream offering a Miesque’s Approval colt (Lot 132) and Mauritzfontein’s Escoleta Fitz with an Ideal World colt (Lot 151). There are a slew of Graded and Listed winning dams including Oaks winner Haute Cuisine (Mogok filly – Lot 179), Next Edition (Muhtafal filly – Lot 241), Princess Sassi (Brave Tin Soldier colt – Lot 256), Supper Club (Black Minnaloushe filly – Lot 49), Madrisa (Bankable filly – Lot 221), Passive Resistance (filly by Kahal – Lot 248), Thekkady (colt by Argonaut – Lot 37), Carambola (Silvano colt – Lot 105), Lunar Fields (Slew The Red filly – Lot 219), National Navigator (colt by Bankable – Lot 239), Russian Nature (colt by Ravishing – Lot 16) and Scripture (colt by Horse Chestnut – Lot 23).
Let’s get started
2013 Emerald Cup winner, In A Rush
The sale kicks off with Southford Stud’s Windrush colt out of 7-time winner Rachel’s Princess, who has already proved herself in the paddock with 2 winners from 2 runners. For sprint fans, Rathmor offers a Windrush colt out of a half-sister to Emerald Cup winner, In A Rush (Lot 187). There are two filles – one from Hadlow Stud from the Enchanted Kingdom family – Lot 64) and Gary Player Stud offers a granddaughter of Duchess Daba (Lot 175).
A previous Windrush graduate from the 2013 KZN sale was the R60,000 purchase Princess Selena, who impressed by winning her June debut. Princess Selena was bred by The Alchemy (breeders of the KZN Sale’s poster boy, SASOC Triple Crown winner Louis The King), who have a 10-strong draft for this year’s sale, including 2 fillies by the very promising Seventh Rock, one of only two Warm White Night colts on offer from the family of El Gran Senor, as well as four yearlings by proven Danehill sire Toreador, including lot 110 from the prolific Let Kiss family and lot 250 from the family of Velozia.
A single please, Captain !
(Announce / Captain Al / Count Dubois / Daring Bid / Elusive Fort / Jay Peg / Judpot / Kildonan / Mullins Bay / National Emblem / Oracy / Querari / Rocky Street / Slew The Red / Trippi / Tropical Empire)
Elusive Fort
There are several sires with very small drafts. There is a single Captain Al from Boland Stud #260. Out of Qui Success, who was a winner herself and has to date produced 2 winners from 2 runners. Boland offer their yearlings unnamed so that potential buyers have the added incentive of naming rights.
David Southey consigns the only Announce on the sale # 118. Out of the raced mare Chilly Filly, whose dam Colonial Girl was Equus Champion Older Female Stayer; the family boasts the likes of Brilliant Cut and English Garden.
Spring Valley Stud consigns the only Count Dubois, a colt out of a half-sister to Spook Express #218. Luisa already has 2 previous Count Dubois progeny to her credit, including Gr2 winner Countless Times and Gr2 placed Glorious Moment.
Middlefield offers a filly #238 by Daring Bid, the only son of Unbridled in South Africa. He has a limited number of South African progeny.
Alongside Horse Chestnut and Dynasty, Equus Champion Elusive Fort is one of the best sons of champion sire Fort Wood. Elusive Fort belongs to one of the most potent families in the stud book – the “E” family of Empress Club, Ecurie and Epoque. The stallion has 8 first-crop runners to date for 3 wins, including the one of Elusive Stars, also 3rd in the Listed Perfect Promise Sprint. On offer #233 out of Missing No More, who has 3 winners from 6 runners to her credit.
Jay Peg produced his debut crop in 2010 and has Group and Listed winning progeny including Flash Drive (Cape Nursery), Olympic Owen (Protea Stakes), and Hot Affair (Cape Fillies Nursery). There is a single filly #65, out of stakes placed Jet Master mare Victoriana, who is a half-sister to Hammie’s Hooker.
Judpot
Kingmambo’s brother Judpot has taken the world by storm, with Gr1 winners from his first crop including Forest Indigo, Along Came Polly and the ill-fated Mister Cricket. Boland Stud has #78, a filly out Caesour-mare Ad Valorum, who is a half-sister to the dam of Hot Ticket, from the family of J&B Met winner Hill Fifty-Four.
Equus Champion Kildonan has had only a small number of runners, his daughter Rosier looking particularly smart in capturing the Listed East Cape Fillies Nursery. Yellow Star Stud offer a filly # 160, out of a winning half-sister to Glorious Red, their dam 3-part sister to Model Man.
Irish-bred Mullins Bay sired talented Gr1 placed Gitiano in his first crop. Ambleway offer s #52, a colt out of multiple winning Sylvan Story, from the female line of Yorker.
National Emblem is no longer with us, but made his mark with champions both here and abroad with champion sprinter Nhlavini, Rebel King, Shea Shea. Backworth Stud offer #165, a limited edition filly out of a multiple winning daughter of Fort Wood.
NZ-champion Zabeel’s son Oracy has his first crop racing this season. On offer is a colt out of a winning Elusive Quality mare, from the family of US G1 winners Scorpion and Alwajeeha.
Querari
German-bred Querari is a son of Oasis Dream, an emerging sire-of-sires. Querari progeny made a splash at the recent National Sale, where he was the second leading first crop sire. Maine Chance consign a filly # lot 111, out of a daughter of Mr Greeley.
Rocky Street, by Coolmore’s Rock Of Gibraltar, had just 5 starts, before injury curtailed his career. He has one filly #136 from a small second crop, out of a dual-winning daughter of Kahal.
Multiple Group winner Slew The Red has produced the likes of Littleredcorvette, and August Stakes and Emerald Cup winner Phunyuka in his first crop. This season Mirror The Moon won smartly for Ormond Ferraris at Turffontein in June and Bush Hill offer a full sister #219. Their 5-time winning dam has 6 winners from 8 runners to her credit.
There’s just one Trippi on offer, so you’ll have to be quick! Highlands consigns #198, a half-sister to Protea Stakes winner Olympic Owen. This cross has previously been successful with the 2013 Allan Robertson winner One Fine Day.
Rounding off our ‘singles’ is Tropical Empire, who boasts an impressive record of 40 career starts for 11 wins, and earnings of over a million. He has #130, a filly out of a winning daughter of Fighting Falcon.
Good things happen in Threes
(Black Minnaloushe, Fort Wood, Tiger Ridge)
Triple Crown, Derby & Oaks sire, Black Minnaloushe
“Louis” has been the name on everyone’s lips and with sprint sensations, an Oaks and a Derby winner, as well as a 2014 July contender Black Minnaloushe’s draft are sure to get attention. There are 9 on offer. Lot 5 is a half-brother to 2 winners, out of a half-sister to top-class filly Jalberry. Lot 20 is a half-sister to 5 winners, including 6 time stakes placed winner African Rhythm. Lot 49 is a filly out of the top-class racemare Supper Club , from the family of champion Festive Occasion, who won SA Oaks. Lot 69 is a colt bred on the same Black Minnaloushe/Rich Man’s Gold cross which produced Louis The King. His dam, who won three, is a half-sister to Black Minnaloushe’s talented daughter Mary Stuart – making this colt a brother in blood to that smart filly. Lot 103 is a half-brother to 2 winners. His dam, by Jet Master, is a granddaughter of Gr1 winner Have A Ball – the family of champion Bush Telegraph. Lot 152 is a filly, who is out of a wining daughter of champion Silvano, and from the E-family. Lot 216 is a filly out of a three time winning daughter of Jallad, who made his mark as broodmare sire with Shea Shea and Met winner Martial Eagle. Lot 236 is a filly whose dam is a winning 3-part sister to champion sprinters National Currency and Enchantress. Lot 249 is a half-sister to two winners, from the family of Victory Moon.
Fort Wood fields a draft of four from Mauritzfontein, all out of imported dams. Lot 86 is a colt, from a winning Machiavellian mare, who already has a proven full brother in Gavin van Zyl-trained Aware and another unraced 2yo full sibling coming through the ranks in the same yard. This is the E-family again. Lot 98 is a colt out of the unraced NZ-bred Zabeel mare Breezeway, lot 188 a colt out of BRZ-bred winning mare Ireland, while lot 217 is a filly out of a US-bred daughter of Woodman.
Triple Tiara-producing sire Tiger Ridge succumbed to a heart attack in January 2014. He has so far produced 27 stakes winners including the Strike The Tiger, the first American trained horse to win at Royal Ascot, US millionaire Leah’s Secret, and locally Summer Cup hero Wagner and Equus Champion 3YO Filly Cherry On The Top. Ambleway Stud offer Lot 32, out of the stakes placed daughter of National Assembly from the family of Star Effort.
Tried and Tested
(Kahal, Silvano, Var, Muhtafal)
Consistent Kahal
Kahal keeps getting them on the board. His CV boasts the likes of Bold Ellinore, Desert Links Chocolicious, Tales of Bravery, Love Struck and Smanjemanje – and the old warrior is showing no signs of slowing down. There are six fillies and two colts on offer. Of the fillies, lot 10 is out of a Model Man mare, the same cross that produced Smanjemanje. Kahal also has a good affinity with Northern Guest mares of which Somerset Stud offers Lot 58 and Roski offer Lot 138 from the family of Devon Air. Spring Valley has lot 248 out of a stakes-winning Caesour mare, the same cross that produced Tales Of Bravery, as well as lot 149, a full brother to Tales of Bravery. Piemonte comes with a colt from a Silvino mare (lot 195).
Silvano is the proverbial little black dress of the breeding world – no matter what the occasion or the venue, he simply works. There are 3 on offer from Maine Chance, the first of which is a colt from a stakes-winning Danehill mare in a cross that has proved successful with Danish Silver (lot 105). Of the fillies, the first is out of the winning half-sister to Historic Lady in the same cross that produced Camelia Stakes winner, Mochachino (lot 203),and the second out of a Sadler’s Wells mare (lot 222).
Avontuur’s super sire Var has 3 colts and a filly here. Hemel ‘n Aarde offer a filly out of a half-sister to Joshua’s Mistress. This is the family of For The Lads and Heavy Metal. Gary Player Stud has a colt out of the half-sister to Cream Of The Crop, from Devon Air’s female line. Lastly, Boland Stud offers lot 244 from a winning half-sister to Ski Pass.
Muhtafal is as solid and dependable as they come and there are four in the catalogue. Clarkin Thoroughbred Services has two colts – #12 out a half-sister to Thunder Key and #106 out of a half-sister to El Padrino. Bush Hill consigns a colt from a winning Rambo Dancer mare (#140), Aldora offers a filly out of a Gr2 winner Next Edition (#241).
Movers, shakers and money makers
(Antonius Pius, Argonaut, Ashaawes, Horse Chestnut, Mogok)
Antonius Pius
Highlands’ Antonius Pius caught the eye again with a treble at Kenilworth the other day. His debut crop now boasts four stakes horses including My Sanctuary, Yoshie, Antonius Du Bois and the winner of last year’s R1million race, Ace Antonius. His second crop are proving just as precocious with Arria winning the Summer Juvenile Stakes on Met day. There are 2 colts and a filly on offer here. Ambleway offers lot 52, a first produce colt out of 5-time winner Sweet Talk, Highlands consigns lot 100, a colt out of a winning daughter of Rakeen, while lot 170 is out of Riverton’s proven Badger Land mare, Glittering.
Cheveley Stud are in the headlines with their July horse Legislate, and offers four lots, including 3 by their home grown champion Argonaut. Lot 182 is a half-brother to stakes winning 2yo Hope And Fortune. Lot 190 out of a 4 time winner by Green Desert related to top-class English runners Sleepytime, Ali-Royal and Taipan. Lot 240 a half-brother to three multiple winners, out of a half-sister to the dam of Kimberley Mine. Lot 74 is a filly by freshman sire Mambo In Seattle out of a three parts sister to Futura; relatives include Gr1 filly Angelina.
Ashaawes has hit headlines with Sanshaawes, doing a stellar PR job on the international stage. He has classy South African runners keeping him in the local headlines too. One of these is juvenile Asstar, who scored impressively on debut. Asstar was part of Boland Stud’s 2013 KZN Yearling Sale draft, selling for R80k, so it is appropriate that the 4 on offer here – 3 fillies and a colt – all hail from Boland Stud. Lot 80 is a filly out of a winning daughter of champion racemare Faralmond. Lot 135 is a half-sister to a three time winner, out of a winning daughter of stakes winner Delta Blues. This filly is out of a mare by emerging broodmare sire Goldkeeper, whose daughters produced top fillies as All Is Secret and Reflective Image. Lot 225 is a half-sister to a US-based winner, from a daughter of champion sprinter Cadeaux Genereux. Lastly lot 259, a colt whose dam is a half-sister to smart stakes horse S’il Vous Plait. Like top juvenile Kingvoldt, this colt is out of a Parade Leader mare.
Horse Chestnut
South African Horse of the Year and Triple Crown winner Horse Chestnut produced 68% winners to runners from his USA progeny and has hit the ground running in South Africa. His South African crop were born in 2010 and now boasts Group winner Chestnut’s Rocket, Listed winner Silent Force, and July contender Rake’s Chestnut. There are four lots on offer here, including a colt out of stakes-winning mare Scripture (lot 23) consigned by Piemonte Stud. Boland Stud offers a filly out of a half-sister to Storm Crossing, from the Corn family (lot 21). There’s more. Lot 113 is a colt out of a winning Model Man mare, consigned by The Fort Stud, while Backworth Stud consigns Lot 154, a half-brother to stakes winner Colour of Courage.
With the likes of Gypsy’s Warning, Orbison, The Apache and Vodacom Durban July contender Wild One, Mogok will get attention. This half brother to major sire Machiavellian has a whopping 18 lots on offer. The Scott Bros draft includes Lot 29, a colt out of a stakes-placed daughter of Model Man, Lot 127 a half-sister to Master Of Note, Lot 157 out of a half-sister to Wild One, and Lot 227, a full sister to Markofdistinction. Aldora Stud offers Lot 179, a filly out of stakes-winning mare, Haute Cuisine. Rathmor consigns Lot 191, a colt from the family of Tecla Bluff (Zebra Crossing, Circle Of Life and African Lion) as well as Lot 237, a colt out of a stakes placed daughter of Model Man.
The best time to plant a tree is yesterday. The second best time is today.
(AP Answer, Brave Tin Soldier, Ideal World, King’s Apostle, Lateral, Mambo In Seattle, Seventh Rock)
If you missed the first crops of the new stallions on the block, there may still be time to grab one before their prices go through the roof.
AP Answer – son of Champion AP Indy out of Champion Pas de Reponse
Clifton Stud’s A P Answer is the leading first crop sire in KZN. These are headed by promising 2yo Beckedorf, who has a Gr1 and Gr3 place on his CV. There are 18 A P Answer yearlings on offer. Highlights include lot 4, a filly out of a stakes placed winner by Rakeen. Lot 200 is a three time winning daughter of Kahal and smart Gr3 winning mare Kefaah’s Secret. Lot 55 is a half-sister to 2 winners, from the female line of Bold Ruler. Lot 71 is a half-sister to 2 winners, whose dam is a half-sister to Horse of the Year Free My Heart. Lot 164 a half-sister to 3 winners, from a highclass US female line, which includes Breeders Cup Turf winner Magician.
Summerhill Stud’s young sire Brave Tin Soldier was represented by his fifth first crop winner when Jedi Star won last week. He has four on offer here. Lot 2 is a half-brother to a winner, from the family of high-class sprinter The Business. Lot 54 is a filly whose dam is a Jallad half-sister to smart Gr3 sprinter Mary Stuart. Lot 256 is a half-brother to 2 winners. This well bred colt is out of Gr2 Golden Slipper winner Princess Sassi. The quartet completes with lot 262, a colt whose dam is a half-sister to top-class performer Patriotic Rebel.
Ideal World hails from one of the best families in the stud book. Ideal World made a promising start, and four first crop winners to date. He’s well represented by nine youngsters. Lot 51 is a half-sister to 3 winners, including a stakes placed filly. Her second dam was placed in the SA Oaks. Lot 59 is a filly out of a SA Oaks placed Fort Wood mare Lady Helen. Lot 88 is a full brother to impressive recent winner Amazing Strike. Lot 99 is a filly out of a winning granddaughter of Broodmare of the Year Ollies Last – dam of Gr1 winners Final Claim and Alpha Omega. Lot 112 is a colt out of a winning Fort Wood mare who is a three parts sister to Horse of the Year Celtic Grove. Lot 151 is a half-brother to 3 winners, out of Equus Champion and Gr1 winner Escoleta Fitz, from the E-family. Lot 235 is a half-brother to a recent winner, from the family of Reef Road and Forest Path. Lot 243 is a colt out of a half-sister to Gr1 sprinter Wild Type. The family includes champion Cherry On The Top and numerous other stakes winners. Lot 245 is a half-sister to a winner, from a Gr1 Argentine family.
Lateral
King’s Apostle was a high-class Gr1 sprinter in Europe, rated 124. From a small number of juvenile runners he boasts 2 winners, including stakes placed National King, who finished 4th in the Gr3 Godolphin Barb Stakes. Boland consigns Lot 47, a colt out of a winning full sister to champion filly Donatella. Riverton offers Lot 194, a colt out of multiple-winning Scuffleburg mare Kadie.
Freshman Lateral has 11 juveniles to have won or be in the money to date. There are six catalogued, including 5 fillies and one colt from a host of international and local bloodlines, including daughters of Epoque and of a Giant’s Causeway mare.
Mambo In Seattle is a Grade One winner in all but name, beaten a whisker in the G1 Travers Stakes. He got his first juvenile winner on the board in January when Motivate Mambo thrashed his rivals to score by 4 lengths. There are five on offer here, including 3 colts from Boland Stud. Lot 33 is a out of a dual winning National Assembly mare from the female line that produced of Promisefrommyheart. Lot 173 is out of a winning Goldmark mare who has 6 winners from 7 runners, and Lot 234 is a first produce colt out of an unraced half-sister to London Guest. Cheveley offers Lot 74, a filly from a winning daughter of Fort Wood, while Gary Player Stud has Lot 210, a colt out of a five-time winning daughter of Mistral Dancer.
Gr1 Gold Medallion winner Seventh Rock has made a sensational start to his stud career. He’s leading first crop sire and fourth leading sire of 2yo’s overall. His leading lights are unbeaten Gr1 Gold Medallion winner Guiness and stakes placed filly Seven Grand.
Seventh Rock has two fillies and a colt on offer, consigned by The Alchemy and Waterford Stud.
New Kids on the Block
(Bankable, Just As Well, King’s Chapel, Noordhoek Flyer, Rock Of Rochelle, Russian Sage, Visionaire and Warm White Night)
Bankable under Ryan Moore wins the 6f Mahab Al Shimaal, Meydan, Dubai (Photo: Horsephotos.com)
The ill-fated Bankable left a single crop of foals, 4 of which are available here. Hadlow Stud offer two – a filly (Lot 19) out of a Peintre Celebre mare who is a half-sister to an Australian Stakes winner, and a colt (Lot 108) out of an unraced daughter of National Emblem. There is a filly from Ambleway (Lot 221) out of Fillies Nursery winner Madrisa, while and Spring Valley offer Lot 239, a a half-brother to Gr3 winner Kinematic Countess.
Blue Tiger has two first crop yearling fillies on offer, including a half-sister to the Gold Medallion winner Potent Power. Catalogued as lot 35, she is out of a winning Captain Al mare. The second is out of a winning half-sister to two stakes fillies, including the five time stakes winner Noble Century.
Just As Well, rated 118 by Timeform during his racing career, has eight youngsters., of which Roski Stud consigns 3 fillies. Lot 63 is out of a half-sister to stakes winner Soft Landing, Lot 76 out of an unraced Jet Master mare from the female line that produced Chestnut’s Rocket, and Lot 207 is out of a winning daughter of The Sheik. Spring Valley offer four including lot 97, a colt out of a winning daughter of Al Mufti from the female line of Star Effort, and Lot 184, a colt out of a multiple winning mare from the female line of Sarabande. The group is rounded off by Burwell Stud’s Lot 123, out of a 7-time winning half-sister to Act Of Supremacy.
King’s Chapel was Horse of the Year at 3 and Champion Sprinter/Miler in New Zealand, rated Timeform 123. He started his stud career down under, getting Gr2 winner King’s Ransom, and stakes placed Star of Kings. He has 17 from his first local crop here. Highlights include Backworth’s Lot 169 from a stakes placed mare, and lot 183 a filly out of a stakes place mare from a tough galloping Zimbabwean family from Aldora Stud. Rathmor offers Lot 189 from a multiple winning mare from the family of Hot Ticket, and Clifton Stud has Lot 224, a filly out of a winning Badger Land mare, from a family studded with Equus winners.
Noordhoek Flyer
Noordhoek Flyer, dual Guineas winner and J&B Met runner-up, saw his career curtailed by injury. There are 2 fillies and 3 colts on offer here. The first filly (Lot 104) is from Yellow Star Stud out of winning daughter of Portrush. Lot 141 is a filly from Gelykfontein Stud out of a winning Zimbabwean mare who already has 6 winners to her credit. Gelykfontein also offer lot 145, a colt from the family of Soho Secret. Gary Player Stud has a colt (Lot 204) out of a winning mare. Yellow Star Stud round off the draft with a colt out of a winning daughter of Al Mufti.
Rock Of Rochelle has two on offer. Boland Stud consigns Lot 61, a colt out of a winning daughter of Caesour, while Riverton comes with lot 258, a filly out of a 3-time winning daughter of Dominion Royale from the female line of Potent Power.
Russian Sage raced over 3 seasons in South Africa, Dubai and the UK, and retired on a Timeform rating 122. He has four yearlings on offer, all from Southford Stud. Lot 92 is a colt out of a 5-time winning daughter of Claude Monet. Lot 119 is a colt, out of an Elliodor mare from the Gr1 female line of Priceless Asset. The two fillies are Lot 197, out of a half-sister to Hale Sapieha, and Lot 229, out of a daughter of Gr1 winner Girl On A Swing.
US Grade One winner Visionaire got off to a great start with his first US crop last year. His National Sale yearlings were very well received, and there are 8 more chances to get a piece of him here. Highlights include lot 153 from Bush Hill Stud, a filly out of the stakes placed daughter of National Assembly. Rathmor consign lot 166, a colt out of a multiple winning mare from the family of Buy And Sell.
Multiple Gr1 winner Warm White Night is represented by two yearlings. Boland consigns Lot 67 out of a winning own sister to Gr1 stayer Travel North. The Alchemy offers lot 122, a colt out of a daughter of Encosta De Lago, from the female line of Northern Guest, a famous Gr1 producing family.
Great Scott!
Scott Brothers, at Highdown Stud, stand not only Gr1 producer Mogok, but a host of other sires.
Miesque’s Approval
Miesque’s Approval was a high class performer on grass in his native United States, where he was voted the Champion Turf Horse of 2006 with a 126 Timeform rating. He is represented by no less than 26 yearlings at this sale. Highlight might well be Spring Valley Stud’s Lot 132, a colt out of Equus Champion 2yo Filly Dare To Dream. Spring Valley also have a colt out of Hibiscus winner Really Rich (Lot 7). Scott Bros offer Lot 46, a half-brother to Hunting Tower, as well as a filly from the same family (Lot 126).
Australian-bred Overlord is by champion sire and leading sire-of-sires Danehill, from the female line of Storm Cat. There are 4 on offer here. St Helier has a filly from a winning Elliodor-mare with a 100% strike rate of runners to winners. Spring Valley offers a filly from a half-sister to the speedy Captain Harry. Scott Bros weighs in with two colts who have Argentina backgrounds – lot 60, out of a Roy-mare whose dam is a Gr1 winner, and lot 201, a colt out of Gr2 runner-up Lady Caroloty.
Kingmambo stallion Atso was unraced due to injury. He has 2 representatives here. Lot 146 is a colt out of a winning half sister to Gr1 Ingleside, from the family of champion racemare Evening Mist. Lot 196 is a filly out of full sister to stakes winner Long Dollar.
Storm Cat sire Carpocrates has two on offer, both from The Fort Stud, including Lot 79. This colt is out of a Jet Master mare from the family of Skin Tight, For The Lads and Heavy Metal.
King Of Kings, whose son King’s Chapel is also represented with yearlings at this sale, has five on offer. They include Lot 90, a filly out of a half-sister to Signor Amigo from Somerset Stud, and lot 47 from Boland, a colt out of a winning full sister to champion filly Donatella.
Spanish Harlem is by Danehill out of 1000 Guineas winner Sleepy Time. He’s had a small number of juvenile runners, for 3 winners. Spanish Harlem stands at Middlefield Stud and they consign a draft of four including Lot 62, a filly out of a half sister to Gr1 winner What A Prospect, and Lot 66, a colt out of the 6-time winning daughter of Silvino from the family of Aquanaut.
Spectrum
Spectrum is not only a sire of Gr1 winners in Europe, but is now making a name as broodmare sire of international Gr1 performers. In SA, Tellina leads the pack. There are five on offer here, 4 fillies and a colt. Yellow Star offer Lot 95, out of a half-sister to the dam of Badger’s Drift, and Lot 155, a colt out of a 5-time winning mare from the female line of Over The Air.
A P Arrow is credited with five Gr1 performances, including three behind champions Invasor and Curlin. He has been smartly off the mark with stakes performers Coby, Flight Warning and Free Flight from his debut crop. There are 4 on offer here including three from Summerhill. Two are out of Rich Man’s Gold mares, including Lot 91, a colt from the family of Enchanted Garden. Spring Valley offer lot 148 out of a winning daughter of National Emblem from the family of top sprinter Chili Bite.
Jet Master-stallion Ravishing has two on offer. Yellow Star has offer a colt from a 7-time winning Russian Fox mare from the family of Captain’s Wild (Lot 16). Rathmor comes with a filly out of a 5-time winning daughter of Keefah.
Australian-bred Strategic News retired to stud at Rathmor. There are 4 individuals on offer, including Lot 28, a filly out of SA Oaks winner Noble Destiny, from the family of Tales Of Bravery.
