Asia – Lot 45 at the 2013 Cape Yearling Sale 2013
The essence and importance of timing for vendors at this week’s Cape Premier Yearling Sale was illustrated when the Toreador mare Las Ramblas registered her long overdue black type when winning the Listed Michael Roberts Handicap at Scottsville last Sunday.
Trained by James Goodman, the versatile 5yo mare Las Ramblas has won five races from 1000m to 2000m.
Besides last weekend’s cavalier end to end win against the males, her career highlight was her second placed effort to Igugu in the 2011 Gr1 SA Fillies Classic.
An ecstatic Goodman, one of the country’s most experienced conditioners, said after the win last Sunday that he had always known that Las Ramblas had a stakes win in her.
Paul and Lindi Garlicki’s Connemara Stud are offering the exquisitely named Asia, a beautiful half sister (Lot 45) to Las Ramblas by first season sire Seventh Rock. The cross is an interesting one.
Klawerveli Stud’s Australian-bred Seventh Rock has by all accounts produced some cracking specimens from his first crop of yearlings. He has twenty lots on this sale, and there have been whispers about many of them.
A brilliantly fast son of Rock Of Gibraltar, he is a Gr1 winner of six races and is out of the former champion 2yo filly and champion older female sprinter, Ruby Clipper. The latter won ten times in the care of Gary Alexander.
There is a fascinating further link to the Alexander family, who won last Saturday’s Gr2 Sceptre Stakes with the smart Giant’s Causeway filly, Blueridgemoun-tain. The yearling filly’s dam Silent Kiss (NZ), by Danzig stallion Maroof (USA) , was also trained by Gary Alexander.
The Connemara 2013 CPYS draft is an impressive one in terms of pure quality, and includes three Dynasty colts and a Dynasty filly.
Lot 16 is of interest. He is a lovely grey colt out of a half sister to the Alec Laird trained Listed Michaelmas winner, Pessoa (by Go Deputy).
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