Singapore Double for Sale Graduates
The quick double for BSA graduates highlighted the tremendous value for money that can be found in South Africa
23rd April 2014
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The quick double for BSA graduates highlighted the tremendous value for money that can be found in South Africa
Mick Goss is always enthused when it comes to talking about Summerhill horses, but never more so than around sale time.
Varsfontein is a farm that patiently and carefully cultivates its broodmare band and it is a strategy that has been paying dividends.
There was appreciative applause around the sale ring when Mike de Kock went to R3,4 million for Klipdrif’s Master’s Spirit last year.
Middlefield have a total of 6 yearlings (4 colts and 2 fillies). The one likely to draw the most interest is #111, a half-brother to Tippuana Moon by Var.
One of South Africa’s most consistent sires, Kahal has been represented by five stakes horses this season, including the top-class mare Classic Illusion. Currently eighth
Promising young sire Elusive Fort was represented by yet another first crop winner, when his son Elusive Shade won a good race at the Vaal
From just a handful of runners, Ideal World has been represented by 4 horses who have either won or finished in the money.
Along Came Polly (Judpot), a BSA graduate, scored the second Gr1 victory in the Gr1 L Jaffee Empress Club Stakes
One yearling on offer by leading US sire Stormy Atlantic – whose daughter Up With The Birds, was named Canada’s Horse Of The Year for 2013
Dazzling, a daughter of Galileo and a full-sister to G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Roderic O’Connor, hails from the same family as Lot 343 – a Mambo In Seattle filly.
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
