Champion Hawwaam, one of the very best sons of five times champion South African sire Silvano, is set to retire to Wilgerbosdrift for the 2021 breeding season.
Shadwell, who raced Hawwaam with so much success, are planning to support him at stud, and the entire industry would like to thank H.H. Sheikha Hissa and the family for their ongoing support and look forward to seeing Hawwaam return to South Africa.
Former De Kock star Hawwaam will stand at stud this coming season (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
South Africa’s Champion 3YO of 2018-2019, Hawwaam won ten of 13 starts, with his victories including five at Gr1 level.
His victories included a pair of triumphs in the Gr1 Premier’s Champions Challenge, as well as the G1 H F Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes, Gr1 Daily News 2000 – a race won previously by outstanding sire Dynasty as well as the increasingly successful Vercingetorix – and Gr1 SA Classic.
Hawwaam, who won a total of eight graded races during his career, accounted for some outstanding performers during his career, including champions Do It Again, Legal Eagle, Soqrat, Talktothestars and Vardy, and fellow Gr1 winners Atyaab, Chimichuri Run, Eyes Wide Open, Queen Supreme, Tilbury Fort, Undercover Agent and Zillzaal.
Described as an outstanding physical specimen, Hawwaam was a R1 million buy from the 2017 National Yearling Sale.
Hawwaam, whose full-brother Celestial City cost R7 million as a yearling, is one of more than 100 stakes winners for his outstanding sire Silvano, whose son Vercingetorix ranks as one of the best young stallions currently standing in South Africa.
He is one of three G1 winners produced by Jet Master’s Gr3 Prix Du Cap winning daughter Halfway To Heaven, South Africa’s Broodmare Of The Year in both 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.
Halfway To Heaven, dam of four winners from as many runners, is also dam of four time Gr1 winner, and dual Met winner Rainbow Bridge, and Gr1 ARF Commemorative Cape Derby/World Sports Betting Champions Cup hero Golden Ducat.
Remarkably, between them, Halfway To Heaven sons have won 11 Gr1 races and earned more than R15 million in stakes.
A champion in his own right, Hawwaam is by a champion sire out of a champion broodmare – he has everything to recommend him as a stallion of the future!
