Kommetjie Storm in the National Yearling Sale ring (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
The most expensive yearling filly of 2023, and also the highest-priced lot sold at the National Yearling Sale of that year, Kommetjie Storm makes her debut at Turffontein on Thursday.
The R3,2 million full sister to Vodacom Durban July winner Kommetdieding hails from the Sanne family’s Oldlands Stud, and will step out in Kenneth Pillay’s familiar Kestorm Investments silks in the second race, a 14h50m Maiden Plate at 12h30.
She has already been backed into the red and trainer Tony Peter told the Sporting Post that ‘she’s very talented’.
“Naturally she could run green, but she’s really talented, and I expect her to make a winning debut,” said Tony Peter
Her highly vaunted brother Kommetdieding, a modestly priced R55 000 Klawervlei Farm Sale graduate, now stands at Klawervlei Stud.
He won his 1200m Hollywoodbets Kenilworth debut in June 2020 as a 2yo, and remained unbeaten in his first four starts, culminating in the 1800m Gr3 Politician Stakes.
