The consistently successful Querari ended the 2023-2024 racing season on a high note when his son Master Redoute won the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville.
In the process, Master Redoute won the third graded race of his career, the gelding having also prevailed in last season’s Ridgemont Gr3 Peninsula Handicap and New Turf Carriers Gr3 Western Cape Stayers.
Master Redoute was one of eight stakes winners for Querari last season, with the son of Oasis Dream ending the season in third place on South Africa’s General Sires premiership.
Querari (Oasis Dream – Quetena) has made a good start to the season (Pic – Freeman Stallions)
Querari, whose runners amassed more than R16,623 million in the 2023-2024 season, also finished seventh on last season’s Leading Sires of 2YO’s list, and fifth on South Africa’s Leading Sires of 3YO’s premiership.
His flagbearers last season, Master Redoute aside, included promising Durban Gr2 Golden Horseshoe winner Cosmic Speed, Gr3 Cape Classic winner Questioning, and At My Command, I Am Giant and Cruise Control. The latter trio finished second, third and fourth, respectively, in the 2024 Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint. The luckless At My Command finished runner up in no fewer than four graded stakes races last season.
Querari made the perfect start to the new season when his four-year-old daughter Rainbow Lorikeet captured the Listed East Cape Paddock Stakes at Fairview last Friday.
Rainbow Lorikeet (Aldo Domeyer) holds off Time For Love under Muzi Yeni (Pic – Pauline Herman)
Winner of last season’s Listed Schweppes Cape Fillies Classic, Rainbow Lorikeet captured her second black type race when running out a three parts of a length winner of the 1600m contest.
Rainbow Lorikeet, whose dam is the Silvano sired Gr1 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes winner Nightingale, is one of nine Querari sired stakes winners whose dams were sired by Silvano.
Others bred on this cross include Douglas Whyte Gr1 Thekwini Stakes winner Bavarian Beauty, the aforementioned Cosmic Speed, and fellow graded stakes winners Cosmic Light, Homely Girl and Wonderwall.
Her victory has seen Querari take an early lead on the General Sires premiership for the new season.
Querari’s own evergreen sire Oasis Dream, sire of 136 stakes winners and counting, made his presence felt at Glorious Goodwood last week. Oasis Dream’s two-year-old son Aomori City won Tuesday’s HKJC World Pool Gr2 Vintage Stakes (a race won by another Oasis Dream son, Marbaan, in 2022), while another son, Haunted Dream, won Friday’s Regent Seven Seas Cruises Bentinck Conditions Stakes.
Big Evs wins the Gr2 King George Qatar Stakes (Pic – Goodwood Racecourse)
Oasis Dream broodmare daughters also enjoyed notable success at Goodwood last week, with group winners Audience (Gr2 HKJC World Pool Lennox Stakes) and Big Evs (Gr2 King George Qatar Stakes) were both produced by daughters of Oasis Dream,while Oasis Dream mare Responsible is the dam of Obligate (Frankel), dam of Friday’s Gr3 Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes winner Lead Artist (Dubawi).
Oasis Dream is also the sire of Showcasing, whose Gr1 winning son Mohaather is the sire of Wednesday’s Gr3 Jaeger-Lecoultre Molecomb Stakes winner Big Mojo. The latter hails from the first crop of his Gr1 Qatar Sussex Stakes winning sire, with Mohaather having made a very bright start to his stud career indeed.
