Zafonic horse Count Dubois, whose progeny include South African champions Asylum Seeker, Edict Of Nantes and French Navy, made news as a broodmare sire in North America last Saturday.
His classy daughter Madame Dubois (who shares her name with Count Dubois’ own dam) is the dam of promising two-year-old OK Boomer, who made a winning debut when victorious at Gulfstream on Saturday.
Count Dubois (Zafonic – Madame Dubois) – broodmare success in North America (Pic – Supplied)
A colt by Noble Mission, OK Boomer kicked clear in the closing stages before staying on to make a winning debut with a half length win.
Madame Dubois is not the first daughter of Count Dubois to leave winners overseas, with his champion daughter Asylum Seeker dam of Gr1 Australian Oaks runner up Scarlet Dream (Sebring).
Spectrum
Former Irish 2000 Guineas winner Spectrum, who had stints at stud in both the Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, made his presence felt this year through the deeds of dual Gr1 winner Dutch Art (Medicean).
The latter, whose dam was the Spectrum mare Halland Park Lass, is broodmare sire of one of the best two-year-olds seen out in 2022 in the form of Chaldean (Frankel). The latter, a leading classic contender for 2023, won four of just five starts this year including the Gr1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes, Gr2 Coral Champagne Stakes and Gr3 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes.
Chaldean is out of the four time winning Dutch Art mare Suelita –the dam of 3 stakes winners to date including Gr2 Mill Reef Stakes winning sire Alkumait.
Winner of both the Gr1 Prix Morny and G1 Middle Park Stakes, Dutch Art’s tally of 44 stakes winners includes Gr1 July Cup winner and popular young sire Starman and he is also broodmare sire of 2022 group winning two-year-old Fancy Me (Pivotal) –who is bred on similar lines to the dam of Cape stallion, The United States.
Duke Of Marmalade
The five time Gr1 winner, whose son Duke Of Sussex captured Saturday’s WSB Grand Heritage, is another former South African based sire to make his mark internationally as a broodmare sire this year.
Duke Of Marmalade’s Gr2 winning daughter Traffic Jam is the dam of top filly Place Du Carrousel (Lope De Vega), who bested dual Gr1 winner Nashwa (Frankel) as well as subsequent Breeders’ Cup winner Tuesday (Galileo) when victorious in the 2022 Gr1 Prix de l’Opera Longines on Arc day. Ironically, Place Du Carrousel and Tuesday are closely related, with both fillies descended in female line from the Shadeed mare Hiwaayati.
King Of Kings
King Of Kings, one of the best travelled classic winning sons of Sadler’s Wells, is another former SA based stallion to make his presence felt this year. The 2000 Guineas winning King Of Kings is the sire of the winning mare Silent Queen, whose stakes winning daughter Silent Candy is the dam of the now Ashford Stud based Epicenter (Not This Time).
The latter, whose sire is out of a mare by Trippi, won six of 11 starts including the Gr1 Travers Stakes and was also runner up in both the Gr1 Kentucky Derby and Gr1 Preakness Stakes.
