Cosmic Speed. Zeitz. American Graffiti. Marauding Horde. Light Speed.
These are just a few recent stakes winners sold by Maine Chance Farms at the National Yearling Sale.
Maine Chance, home to one of the best stallion line-ups in South Africa, will be offering another top-quality draft at this year’s National Sale.
The home remarkable stallions (Pic – Maine Chance Farms)
Among the stallions represented in Maine Chance’s National string are star resident sires Querari and Vercingetorix, as well as the likes of Gimmethegreenlight, One World, Rafeef, and What A Winter.
Outstanding sire, and former National Sale graduate, Vercingetorix is responsible for some exceptionally well bred yearlings here. Vercingetorix’s offering includes Perfect Sky (Lot 222) a filly whose winning dam is a full-sister to the Gr2 winning dam of champion Princess Calla, Sommernacht (Lot 291) a colt out of the Var sired Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint winner Sommerlied, and True To Love (Lot 323).
True To Love, one of the best bred fillies on sale, sports stakes winners as her first three dams, with her speedy dam True To Life winning both the Gr3 Wilgerbosdrift Tommy Hotspur Handicap and Gr3 Gauteng Tourism Authority Magnolia Handicap.
Querari, whose progeny include this season’s Gr1 Wilgerbosdrift HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes winner and National Sale graduate Cosmic Speed, has several well bred offspring on sale. They include Fancy Life (Lot 113), a full-sister to the smart Fleeting, Libiamo (Lot 159), a colt whose granddam is a half-sister to champion sire of Silvano, and Twilight (Lot 317).
The latter, bred on the same cross as the aforementioned Cosmic Speed, is a filly whose dam Tia is a winning full-sister to Gr2 Gauteng Guineas/Gr3 London News Stakes winner Tellina.
Other exceptional prospects to be found in this draft include Palmarosa (Lot 225), the Gimmethegreenlight filly out of Gr1 Wilgerbosdrift SA Oaks winner Pine Princess, and Sierra Nevada (Lot 282), a colt by Rafeef out of Silvano’s Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas winner Silver Mountain.
The latter, a daughter of 2015-2016 Equus Champion Broodmare Our Table Mountain, is a half-sister to four black type horses notably Equus Champion, and Gr1 SA Nursery winner, Cloth Of Cloud.
This draft can be viewed from Blocks C and D at the TBA Complex in Germiston.
