A supreme catalogue has been drawn up for the CRS March Premier Yearling Sale, and this catalogue can now be viewed online at www.caperacingsales.co.za.
The auction is set to take place at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on 13 and 14 March 2025, with viewing opening today, Monday 10 March.
Each day of trading is set to commence at 16h00 sharp, with Andrew Miller, John O’Kelly and Tom Hodgson as the three auctioneers for the two-day affair.
The CRS Premier Yearling Sale is set to follow on from the sterling Summer Sale, which enjoyed such tremendous success earlier in the year.
13 – 14 March @ Hollywoodbets Kenilworth (Pic – CRS)
Many of South Africa’s top stud farms will be represented by high-class drafts at the Premier Yearling Sale, and hopes are high that prices will continue to soar for vendors.
Among the top stallions represented by yearlings on this year’s sale there are Gimmethegreenlight and Vercingetorix who have 97 lots between the two of them.
Also featured on mass are the likes of: Master Of My Fate, One World, Querari, Rafeef, Trippi, and What A Winter. A number of exciting young sires have members of their first crop on offer, including Ridgemont’s exciting pair of Malmoos and Real Gone Kid.
Apart from the sires, the band of broodmares with offspring are outstanding on the Premier sale.
The following stakes winning mares are represented at the sale: Amber Orchid, Amy Johnson, Being Fabulous, Bilateral, Celestial Love, Cockney Pride, Comtesse Dubois, Cosmic Light, Darling Moon, Desert Rhythm, Due Diligence, Dynasty’s Blossom, Easy Game, Elusive Heart, Exquisite Touch, Fairyinthewoods, Field Flower, Gathering Fame, Gibraltar Blue, Girl On The Run, Golden Dawn, Green Pepper, Green Plains, Haizi, Ha Lucy, Hanabi, Happy Archer, Hello Winter Hello, Herrin, Hollywoodboulevard, Insignis, Intergalactic, Jet Belle, Kinematic Countess, Lady Windermere, Lesedi La Rona, Mana Mou, Mighty High, Mina Salaam, Mirage, Negroamaro, Netta, Omaticaya, Pan Amm, Princess Royal, Principessa, Purple Orchid, Really Royal, Red Dor, Return Flight, Schippers, Schism, Secret Of Victoria, She’s A Giver, Silvan Star, Siren’s Call, Snowdance, Sovereign Secret, Speedy Suzy, State Factor, Sting Operation, Tambalang, Temple Grafin, The Secret Is Out, Thunder Dance, Torra Bay, Trinity House, Trophy Wife. Proven producers are a premium at the Premier Sale, and they include the dams of such stakes winners as All Is Secret, Ambiorix, Baltic Secret, Bella Chica, Black Knap, Call To Unite, Canukeepitsecret, Cat And The Moon, Chyavana, Cockney Pride, Dagmar, Desert Rhythm, Eros’s Girl, Flying Myth, Gimmefabulous, Gobsmacked, Good Council, Kommetdieding, Linebacker, Litigation, Mercantour, Mighty High, Montien, On That Boulevard, Pamushana’s Pride, Poets Warrior, Princess Calla, Proceed, Roman Agent, Seeking The Stars, She’s A Giver, Silver Darling, Silver Operator, Snow Pilot, Sound Of Warning, Strathdon, Strawberry Bear, Sweet Pepper, Tap O’ Noth, The Secret Is Out, Thunee Playa, True To Life, Universal, Vardy, and Zapatillas.
There are a number of mouth-watering prospects on sale at the Premier Sale including:
Lot 7 – a One World half-brother to Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship winner Sweet Pepper. Out of a graded stakes winning daughter of Gimmethegreenlight, this colt‘s granddam is a winning Fort Wood half-sister to the Gr2 SA Oaks winning dam of dual Gr1 Summer Cup winner Master Sabina.
Lot 28 – a Vercingetorix three-parts brother to Gr1 Woolavington 2000 winner Silver Darling. This colt‘s first dam is triple graded stakes winner Jet Belle, a daughter of
champions Jet Master and Bella Bianca.
Lot 42 – a Gimmethegreenlight filly whose dam is a Gr3 winning half-sister to champion Mythical Flight.Mana Mou the dam of this filly has already produced six winners including Listed Storm Bird Stakes winner Flying Myth.
Lot 46 – a Vercingetorix filly out of Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship winner Mighty High. Also victorious in the Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes, Mighty High is a half-sister to Gr2 winner Gobsmacked.
Lot 50 – a Gimmethegreenlight full-brother to Gr2 Jonsson Workwear Dingaans runner up Shoemaker and half-brother to Gr2 World Sports Betting Guineas winner Zapatillas. This colt‘s dam was a stakes placed winner of five, and he is bred on very similar lines to Gimmethegreenlight’s champion son Sandringham Summit.
Lot 51 – a Gimmethegreenlight colt out of the Fort Wood sired Gr3 Fillies Mile winner Negroamaro. This colt is a full-brother to the high-class gallopers Barbaresco and Outofthedarkness and half-brother to this season’s high-class three-year-old Salenio Peninsula.
Lot 58 – a Gimmethegreenlight out of the Gr2 placed Dynasty mare Perfect Air. Out of a three-parts sister to the Dynasty sired dual Gr1 winner Make It Snappy, this colt‘s dam is a half-sister to Gr1 winning champion Russet Air.
Lot 62 – a Vercingetorix half-brother to former Horse Of The Year and five time Gr1 winner Princess Calla. Bred on the same Vercingetorix/Captain Al cross as Gr1 winners Double Grand Slam and Vernichey, this colt is out of a Gr2 winning three-parts sister to dual Equus Champion Princess Victoria.
Lot 68 – by champion Vercingetorix, this colt is out of the dual Gr1 winning Equus Champion Return Flight. Return Flight herself is a direct descendant of Easy Lass, the dam of outstanding US galloper Coaltown.
Lot 74 – this Rafeef colt is out of the Var sired Gr2 Camellia Stakes winner Schippers.His first two dams are both graded stakes winners, and he is bred on the same Rafeef/Var cross as G1 winning sires Master Archie and Thunderstruck.
Lot 77 – this Erik The Red colt is a three-parts brother to the Captain Al sired Gr1 winners All Is Secret and The Secret Is Out. His dam Secret Of Victoria, who has produced four black type winners, is a Gr2 winning half-sister to champions Bela-Bela and Rabiya, and this is the immediate family of this season’s Gr1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met winner Eight On Eighteen.
Lot 82 – this What A Winter filly is a half-sister to dual Gr3 winning filly Sound Of Warning and Listed Settlers Trophy winner Call To Unite. She is out of the outstanding racemare Siren’s Call, who won both the Gr1 SA Fillies Classic and Gr2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas.
Lot 85 – this Vercingetorix colt is a half-brother to two high-class performers headed by Gr1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas winner Snow Pilot. His dam is Captain Al’s dual Gr1 winning daughter Snowdance.
Lot 92 – this Gimmethegreenlight colt is a half-brother to dual graded stakes winner Silver Operator, and his dam is a stakes winning daughter of Captain Al and Gr1 winner Roxanne. Bred on the potent Gimmethegreenlight/Captain Al cross, this colt hails from the family of champions Gabor and Legislate among others.
Lot 96 – this Futura filly is out of Gr1 Jonsson Workwear Garden Province Stakes winner Temple Grafin. The family of champions Monyela and Horse Chestnut, as well as graded stakes winning half-brothers Smorgasbord and Zen Arcade.
Lot 97 – a Vercingetorix colt out of Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship winner The Secret Is Out. The Secret Is Out is a full-sister to triple Gr1 winning champion All Is Secret and three-parts sister to the Captain Al sired dual Gr1 winner Snowdance.
Lot 98 – a Captain Of All full-brother to dual Gr1 winner Linebacker, who earned more than R2.3 million in prize money. His dam is a Gr3 placed Redoute’s Choice three-parts sister to Australian Gr1 winner Samadoubt.
Lot 100 – a filly by Vercingetorix out of dual Gr1 winner Thunder Dance. The latter was produced by another dual Gr1 winner Shadow Dancing -a half-sister to champion sire Captain Al.
Lot 106 – a Rafeef half-sister to ten winners including Gr3 Starling Stakes winner She’s A Giver. This filly is bred on very similar lines to the Rafeef sired Gr1 Computaform Sprint winner Master Archie.
Lot 110 – a Gimmethegreenlight half-brother to three graded stakes winners including Gr1 Cape Guineas victor Tap O’ Noth. His dam is a winning Western Winter own-sister to the dam of graded stakes winners Black Arthur and Robert The Bruce.
Lot 112 – a Querari half-brother to champion Proceed and full-brother to promising two-year-old Parental Guidance. This colt is out of a winning Captain Al half-sister to triple graded stakes winner Second Base.
Lot 114 – an Elusive Fort full-brother to Gr1 Vodacom Durban July/Gr1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met winning sire Kommetdieding. This colt is out of a stakes placed daughter of Captain Al who is closely related to Captain Al’s triple Gr1 winning son Captain America.
Lot 128 -a Gimmethegreenlight full-sister to this season’s Gr3 Betway Mother Russia Stakes winner Gimmefabulous. This filly is out of a stakes winning daughter of High Chaparral, and her granddam is a dual Gr1 winning daughter of legendary stallion Danehill.
Lot 134 – this Querari colt is a full-brother to Gr2 Prosport International Debutante winner Gobsmacked and half-brother to Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship winner Mighty High. He is out of a Shamardal half-sister to Listed Somerset 1200 winner Sky Link and this is the family of US champion Tom Rolfe among many others.
Lot 148 – this is a Vercingetorix half-brother to three stakes winners notably Equus Champion and Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Vardy. He is out of a full-sister to multiple Gr1 winner Ebony Flyer and half-sister to globetrotting Equus Champion Captain’s Lover.
Lot 149 – this is a Vercingetorix full-brother to Gr1 Gold Medallion winner Ambiorix. His dam won the Listed Lady’s Slipper and is a half-sister to dual graded stakes winner Astro News, sired, like Vercingetorix, by Silvano.
Lot 152 – Exposure colt by Gimmethegreenlight out of Dream Da Ra By South Africa’s reigning champion sire, this colt is a half-brother to the very exciting two-year-old Dreamworld (Avontuur Estate).
Lot 154 – a Gimmethegreenlight filly out of a Gr3 winning Silvano half-sister to Gr3 Fillies Mile winner Ghaalla. Bred on the same cross as champion Bless My Stars and multiple graded stakes winner Barahin, this filly is from the family of the Gimmethegreenlight sired graded stakes winners Cala Muretta and Hack Green.
Lot 155 – this Vercingetorix filly is out of Dynasty’s Gr3 Gold Cup winning daughter Dynasty’s Blossom. This is an outstanding family; whose members include champion and red-hot young sire Too Darn Hot.
Cape Racing Sales continues to raise the bar in owner and vendor incentives with all purchases qualifying for multiple incentives including the R100k juvenile bonus ( R75k to the owner and R25k to the vendor).
Interested parties requiring more information about the Premier Sale can speak to Vicky Minott at [email protected]
