Last term’s Zimbabwe champion conditioner Corne Spies trains the gelding, who shed his maiden at Kimberley on the sand, and was placed in the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes on the Greyville turf during the KZN Champions Season
First winner from first runner for Klawervlei’s King’s Apostle
The famous foundation mare Allegretta – ancestress of no less than nine winners of eighteen Gr1’s headed by six classics, two Prix de l’Arc de Triomphes, one King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. King’s Apostle’s pedigree represents the Allegretta x Sadler’s Wells cross that produced Galileo.
Amanda Skiffington fought off Charlie Gordon-Watson to get an Oasis Dream (GB) half-sister to G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner King’s Apostle (Ire) (King’s Best) for 400,000gns.
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
