Ascot Stud, one of South Africa’s most consistent sources of top-class racehorses, is home to a pair of stallions who have been in the news of late.
Ascot’s resident sires Global View and Heavenly Blue are responsible for Dave The King and Truth respectively, with the former recently named the Cape Bred Horse Of The Year for 2023-2024, while the classy Truth won the 4Racing Gr3 National Currency Sprint.
Ascot Stud’s Heavenly Blue will be represented at the upcoming sale (Pic – Pauline Herman)
The farm will be offering an excellent draft at the 2025 National Yearling Sale, with this consignment including yearlings sired by Erik The Red, Fire Away, Heavenly Blue, Master Of My Fate, Rafeef, and South Africa’s reigning champion sire Gimmethegreenlight.
One of the most striking aspects about Ascot’s National Yearling Sale draft is how many outstanding female lines are represented here. This string includes yearlings from the families of such star performers as Coral Fever, On Her Toes, Blame, Sadler’s Wells, Archipenko, Aussie Rules, Alpinista, and Holy Roman Emperor.
Roxbury Park (Lot 238) is a colt bound to find favour with buyers. A son of multiple champion sire Gimmethegreenlight, he is out of Queen Of Pop, a winning own-sister to Grr1 Cape Flying Championship winner Gulf Storm and Gr3 Sycamore Sprint queen Seattle Singer. This colt’s granddam is a four-time winning half-sister to the Ascot bred champion Rock Opera, dam of French Gr1 winner, and Gr1 sire, Royal Meeting.
Another colt with an eye catching pedigree is Tango Master (Lot 167), a son of Rafeef and Gimmethegreenlight’s Gr3 placed daughter Light On Her Toes, with the latter being a daughter of Gr1 Allan Robertson Fillies Championship winner On Her Toes.
The ever consistent Master Of My Fate is represented here by both Candyland (Lot 213), a filly whose twice winning dam is a full-sister to the top-class filly Cover Look and My Girl Kate (Lot 326).
The latter, directly descended in female line from the great Fanfreluche, is a half-sister to four winners notably dual Sun Chariot Handicap victress United Council, who recently won for a fifth time.
Other attractive lots on offer include Chazy Reef (Lot 53), a Heavenly Blue half-brother to Gr1 Champions Challenge hero Coral Fever, Grey Knight (Lot 96), a Heavenly Blue half-brother to multiple stakes winner Fairy Knight, and Rocking In Rio (Lot 250).
The latter, who hails from the same female line as such outstanding performers as Arc winner Alpinista and French 2000 Guineas winning sire Aussie Rules, to name but two, is a Heavenly Blue half-brother to Gr3 Flamboyant Stakes winner Rockie Reef and a full-brother Listed Lady’s Pendant heroine Three Rocks.
This draft can be found in Blocks B and C at the TBA Complex in Germiston.
