The sale season is in full swing and the 2021 BSA National Yearling Sale catalogue is now online.
This year’s National Sale will take place over two days, with South Africa’s oldest premier sale set to take place at the TBA complex in Germiston on April 15th and 16th.
Former National Sale graduates have been enjoying an excellent season in 2020-2021 thus far, with the likes of Captain’s Ransom, Jet Dark, Malmoos and Rainbow Bridge all excellent advertisements for the quality of thoroughbred on offer at the National Yearling Sale.
The Varsfontein Stud bred Malmoos, the second top sold at the 2019 National Sale, made it six wins, from just seven starts when he won the recent G1 World Sports Betting SA Classic.
Star filly Captain’s Ransom was a R225 000 buy from the 2019 National Sale, and she has gone on to win five of her first six starts including both the Gr1 World Sports Betting Cape Fillies Guineas and Gr1 Majorca Stakes this season.
Captains Ransom sold here for R225 000 in 2019 (Pic- Chase Liebenberg)
Dual Met winner Rainbow Bridge, who has earned more than R7.293 million in stakes, was a R300 000 purchase from the 2016 National Sale, while this season’s G1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Jet Dark was knocked down to Nick Jonsson for R200 000 at the 2019 National Yearling Sale. Excitingly, Jet Dark has a Futura half-brother (Lot 151) on offer at this year’s National Sale!
This year’s National Sale will also seeing half-siblings to Horse Of The Year champions Do It Again and Legal Eagle (both previous National Sale graduates) among the catalogue.
The majority of South Africa’s top stud farms will, once again, be strongly represented.
Top stallions represented at this year’s National Sale include all of Dynasty, Elusive Fort, Gimmethegreenlight, Ideal World, Master Of My Fate, Querari, Silvano, Trippi, Var, Vercingetorix, and What A Winter.
Stallions with first yearlings on this year’s National Sale include Canford Cliffs, Erupt, Gold Standard, Rabada, Royal Mo, and Wings Of Desire.
Rabada – first crop at this sale
Juddmonte Farms’ champion sprinter Oasis Dream, the sire of more than 120 stakes winners including the aforementioned Querari, has a regally bred colt (Lot 34) on offer, while Varsfontein Stud will be offering a colt (Lot 419) by former Gr1 Prix Morny victor Myboycharlie, whose progeny include the Breeders’ Cup winning champion Sistercharlie, at this year’s National Sale.
Notable Gr1 winning mares represented at this year’s National Yearling Sale include All Afire (Silvano colt), All Is Secret (Gimmethegreenlight colt), Bilateral (Erupt colt), Consensual (William Longsword filly), Europa Point (Silvano colt), Flirtation (What A Winter filly), Gilded Minaret (The United States colt), Imperious Star (Visionaire filly), Juxtapose (Querari colt), Lauderdale (Silvano filly), Shadow Dancing (Twice Over colt), Thunder Dance (Gimmethegreenlight filly), Val De Ra (Silvano colt), Zirconeum (Oratorio filly).
The National Sale of 2021 will also include full or half-siblings to the Gr1 winners Anything Goes, Brave Mary, Do It Again, Edict Of Nantes, Forest Indigo, French Navy, Heavy Metal, Jet Dark, Just Sensual, Juxtapose, Kilindini, Legal Eagle, Master Plan, Missisippi Burning, Querari Falcon, Pacific Trader, Redberry Lane, Russet Air, Snowdance, Solo Traveller, Tempting Fate, and Thunder Dance.
