The curtain came down shortly before 17h00 on Friday on the first day of the 2021 BSA National 2yo Sale at the TBA Sales Complex in Johannesburg.
Highest price of the session was the R700 000 paid for a Maine Chance Farms & Niarchos Family-bred son of The United States.
A Gr1 winning Galileo own brother to the Gr1 winners Hermosa and Hydrangea, The United States has made a superb start to his stud career, with his very first runner the subsequent 4Racing Gr2 SA Nursery winner Sheela.
And his handsome and athletic son Kashkaval (#43), interestingly bred on the same cross as Sheela, was not a surprise chart-topper as he fell to a R700 000 bid by Al Khayl Breeders.
Day 1 topseller – lot 43, a son of The United States
The colt is out of a winning half-sister to Gr3 winning millionaire Bulsara, as well as the stakes placed dam of champion Marinaresco and the very exciting Cape-based, Marina.
While numbers had the very exciting The United States topping the sire aggregates with his 12 totalling R2,36 million at an average of R196 667, it was Ridgemont Highlands’ newly crowned SA Champion Freshman sire Rafeef, who topped the averages table with his quintet selling for a gross R1 870 000 at an average of R374 000.
Rafeef was responsible for the joint second and third highest price lots, which included a pair of beautiful fillies.
Top fairer sex ticket on the day was the R500 000 paid by Vermaak Equine for the Wilgerbosdrift Rafeef daughter Glittering Girl (# 88). Closely inbred to Redoute’s Choice, she is a full-sister to Bloodstock SA Cape Yearling Sale Cup winner Mounia.
There 132 lots were catalogued with 116 sold at an aggregate of R14 470 000, at an average of R124 471 and a median of R90 000.
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- Day 2 starts at 11h00 on Saturday.
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