Varsfontein Stud is home to an extremely attractive band of stallions. The farm, who will stand Gimmethegreenlight’s champion son Green With Envy in 2025, is currently home to all of Erik The Red, Master Of My Fate, Sandringham Summit, and the latter’s outstanding sire Gimmethegreenlight.
Varsfontein Stud – nestled amongst the vineyards and wheat lands of the Boland (Pic – Varsfontein Stud)
Gimmethegreenlight, who has been Champion Sire in South Africa on three occasions, is having another fine season in 2024-2025. At the time of writing, Gimmethegreenlight had been responsible for nine black type winners this season, with his progeny having claimed 11 Graded or Listed races in 2024-2025.
Among his flagbearers this season are the graded stakes winners Gimmie’s Countess, Gimme A Prince, and Gimmefabulous, while his daughters Give Me Everything, Kinda Wonderful, and Goodnessgraciousme finished 1-2-3 in the recent Listed Schweppes Cape Fillies Classic.
Varsfontein Stud will be offering six (three as Agent) yearlings by their wonderful stallion at the Premier Yearling Sale, and these yearlings look bound to find favor with buyers…
Lot 50 – Running Shoes (c) by Gimmethegreenlight ex Moggytwoshoes
A half-brother to Gr2 World Sports Betting Guineas winner Zapatillas, and a full-brother to Gr2 Jonsson Workwear Dingaans runner up Shoemaker and the useful Boogie Shoes. Dam a smart performer, who won five and ran third in the Listed Syringa Handicap, and this is the family of the now Varsfontein-based champion Sandringham Summit, who, like Running Shoes, was sired by Gimmethegreenlight.
Lot 111- Wood Green (c) by Gimmethegreenlight ex Winter Wood
A half to Gr3 Europa Point Man O’War Sprint winner Mercantour and the smart filly My Lady Soul. Dam is a Western Winter half-sister to Royal Vintage, a stakes winner in both Dubai and South Africa, and Gr2 November Handicap winner Alderry. The latter produced three black-type horses, notably Gr1 SA Derby winner Al Sahem, and the dam of Gr3 Sea Cottage Stakes winner La Moohal. Granddam, Wester Winter South Africa’s Leading Broodmare Sire of 2017-2018, is broodmare sire of more than 60 stakes winners including champions Carry On Alice, Good Traveller, and Past Master.
Lot 154 – In Due Course (f) by Gimmethegreenlight ex Due Diligence
From the same family as the Gimmethegreenlight-sired stakes winners Cala Muretta, Favorita, Give Me Everything and Hack Green, out of a Gr3 Starling Stakes winning daughter of Silvano. Dam is a half-sister to Gr3 Fillies Mile winner Ghaalla, the latter a R5 000 000 yearling buy, and Due Diligence and Ghaalla are out of the winning Captain Al mare Fidelity, a three-parts sister to Triple Crown winner Malmoos and Varsfontein’s promising young sire Erik The Red. Bred on the same Gimmethegreenlight/Silvano cross as champion Bless My Stars.
Lot 48 – Trompe L’Oeil (c) by Gimmethegreenlight ex Mirage
Bred on the same Gimmethegreenlight/Captain Al cross as champions Proceed and Sandringham Summit, out of Listed KwaZulu-Natal Stakes winner. Granddam Sea Glitter is a Holy Bull three-parts sister to the Holy Bull-sired Gr1 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, with the latter a half-brother to Gr1 Santa Anita Derby/G1 Goodwood Stakes winner Tiago. This is also the family of the very fast US sire Nashville, as well as Gr3 Providencia Stakes winner Medoro.
Lot 70 – Roman Reign (c) by Gimmethegreenlight ex Roman Royalty
Out of a winning daughter of successful Australian sire All Too Hard, granddam Roman Treasure won three stakes in the US and was also third in the Gr1 Test Stakes. Grandam was produced by Gr1 Fantasy Stakes winner and Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies runner up Jeanne Jones, a daughter of legendary racehorse and sire Nijinsky II.
Lot 110 – Cairn William (c) by Gimmethegreenlight ex Wintersweet
Out of a winning full-sister to the Gr3 placed dam of graded stakes winners Black Arthur and Robert The Bruce, a half-brother to Gr1 Cape Guineas winner Tap O’ Noth, Gr3 Cape Summer Stayers winner Strathdon and Gr3 Lonsdale Stirrup Cup hero Black Knap. Dam directly descended in female line from none other than Mumtaz Mahal, one of the most influential mares in the stud book, and Wintersweet’s fourth dam Courtessa is granddam of both outstanding sprinter Habibti and legendary broodmare Eight Carat.
- For more information on this draft, interested parties are asked to contact Carl De Vos on 082 800 8490.
