Var Leads The Field
South Africa’s leading source of speed has three juvenile winners from just four runners
1st January 2016
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South Africa’s leading source of speed has three juvenile winners from just four runners
Programme says she is headed for the £150 000 All-Weather Championship Final at Lingfield
“The major excitement as we approach next month’s CPYS Book 1 is that Cold As Ice has a close relative on offer in the Avontuur draft.”
A terrific winning burst of eight winners over four days at four different venues has seen Bonji replace the hard-working longstanding pacesetter Andrew Fortune at the top of the SA National jockey standings.
Oratorio has consistently been in the leading sires lists in Europe and with 7 international Group 1 winners to his name he is sure to be well received in SA as a proven sire of tough, sound, classic horses
With Oratorio’s former Hong Kong Horse Of The Year Military Attack winning his 13th race in a Gr2 on Saturday, and his first SA yearlings to be offered at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale in January, it has been an exciting few weeks for the Avontuur team
Oratorio’s runners have also built up an impressive strike rate in Europe. The champion son of Danehill has been represented by no fewer than 68 winners in 2015 in Europe –from 139 runners
Since Saturday, Var has been represented by no fewer than seven individual winners, with a number of his offspring looking like horses likely to go on to bigger and better things as the season progresses
With his first SA yearlings being offered at the CPYS Book 1 sale in January 2016, Avontuur’s powerhouse Oratorio celebrated another international Gr1 winner on Saturday when his son Mourinho lined up a Cox Plate bid with a sensational victory
“Two months ago I weighed 70kgs sitting on my couch. Look at me now. And Tyson (Bowes) was so nervous before the race. Doesn’t he realise that if ever anybody wanted somebody to ride for their life it would have to be me!” – Andrew Fortune
Avontuur’s world class stallion Oratorio, who impressed all who saw him at his recent stallion day, was represented by his 44th stakes winner in Ireland on Tuesday
