Wilgerbosdrift’s young stallion Hawwaam got off the mark as a sire when his first-crop son Read All About It made a winning debut at Turffontein on Sunday.
Trained, like his sire, by Mike de Kock, two-year-old Read All About It was allowed to settle early before Muzi Yeni unleashed him close home.
Read All About It (Muzi Yeni) wins on debut (Pic – JC Photos)
From there, Read All About It hit the front and he powered away to win Turffontein’s 4Racing Welcomes You Maiden Juvenile Plate run over 1000m by a length and a half.
Bred by his part-owners Ridgemont, Read All About It is out of the London News mare Picadilly Miss.
The colt is just the second runner for his sire Hawwaam, with first runner, Take It As Red, finishing fourth in her only two starts.
A son of six-time South African Champion Sire Silvano (whose star sire son Vercingetorix is carrying all before him this season), champion Hawwaam won ten of just 13 starts, with the strapping bay earning R6,769,775 in stakes.
Like Vercingetorix and Dynasty, Hawwaam won the Gr1 Daily News 2000, with his remaining Gr1 successes coming in the S A Classic, Premier’s Champions Challenge (twice), and H F Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes.
Hawwaam won eight graded races, with the champion winning over distances ranging from 1200m to 2000m.
Bred on the potent Silvano/Jet Master cross, Hawwaam is out of the Jet Master sired Gr3 Prix Du Cap/Listed Off To Stud Handicap winner Halfway To Heaven, Equus Broodmare Of The Year in 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.
Hawwaam, a full-brother to Kings Cup runner-up Celestial City, is a half-brother to 2020-2021 Horse Of The Year Rainbow Bridge and dual Gr1 winner Golden Ducat.
Hawwaam has a single lot on offer at the Cape Yearling Sale -a filly (Lot 53) whose twice winning dam is a 3/4 sister to the stakes winning dam of Gr1 Ridgemont Garden Province Stakes winner Humdinger.
