One of the undoubted success stories of the past SA racing and breeding year has been One World.
The champion son of Captain Al made a sensational start to his stud career and ended the 2023-2024 season as South Africa’s Leading First Season Sire.
One World enjoyed notable success throughout the year, with his offspring shining in both the sales ring and on the racetrack.
On Saturday his 3yo son One Stripe bids to win the L’Ormarins King’s Plate.
Adele Alsop and the Marshall team welcome the 2020 Met winner with MJ Byleveld up (Pic- Chase Liebenberg)
FEBRUARY
One World attracted plenty of attention when his first-crop son One Stripe demolished his rivals over 1200m at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth.
The R1 400 000 sales topper from the 2023 Cape Racing Sales Ready To Run & Unbroken Two Year Old Sale had finished a close up fifth on debut before winning by six at the second time of asking.
One Stripe would go on to become his sire’s first graded stakes winner when he won the Gr3 City Of Cape Town Cape Good Of Hope Nursery. The same month, saw a pair of One World colts (Godric Gryffindor and Undivided) make R900 000 apiece to jointly top the Cape Yearling Sale.
MARCH
One World’s son One More made the perfect start when he made a winning debut at the Vaal.The two-year-old would go on to catch the eye when running a creditable fourth in the Gr1 Gold Medallion next time out.
APRIL
One World colt Lion Rampart stamped himself a horse to follow when he romped home to a two length win at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth over 1100 metres. Trained, like both One World and One Stripe, by Vaughan Marshall, Lion Rampart had finished fourth, behind One Stripe, in the Gr3 City Of Cape Town Cape Good Of Hope Nursery and he would go on to further enhance his reputation.
MAY
One World colts, One Stripe and Lion Rampart, ran 1-2 in the Gr3 Winter Nursery at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth. In the process, the upwardly mobile One Stripe took his tally of wins to three from just four starts.
JUNE
A One World colt, named One Cape, made R1 000 000 to top the Cape Racing Winter Yearling Sale.
One World runners, Lion Rampart and Miss World, gave their sire another memorable 1-2 when they ran first and second in the Listed Somerset 1200.
While One Stripe was a controversial late scratching from the Gr3 Langerman, another son of One World, All Out For Six, went close to landing the feature when he ran second to Eight On Eighteen.
JULY
One World yearlings continued to be in great demand, with the Drakenstein stallion heading the Sires List (by aggregate) for the 2024 KZN Yearling Sale. All twelve One World yearlings on sale sold for a total of R4,115 million.
One World ended the 2023-2024 season having supplied 30 two-year-old winners, a new record for a South African first season sire. His first juveniles won 40 races and earned more than R5,224 million which saw One World finish second on the Leading Sires of 2yos premiership.
AUGUST
Two-year-olds by One World made up to R1 000 000 at the August Two Year Old Sale. The emerging star sire’s top lot was a filly (#306) out of the four-time winning Silvano mare Summer Moon who made R1 000 000.
OCTOBER
The exciting One Stripe made a pleasing return to racing when second to the previous season’s Hollywoodbets Gr1 Cape Guineas winner Snow Pilot, over1400m at Hollywoodbets Durbanville. He would go on to confirm his class in subsequent races.
NOVEMBER
One Stripe stamped himself a leading Hollywoodbets Gr1 Cape Guineas contender when he romped home to land the Gr2 Cape Punters Cup by a length and three quarters. It was a 1-2 finish for One World, whose son All Out For Six chased him home. Cape Punters Cup day was a memorable occasion for One World, whose sons Lion Rampart and Kaiboy ran first and second in the Listed World Sports Betting Sophomore Sprint.
Classy filly World Of Alice became her sire’s first daughter to win a graded race when she stormed home to land the Betway Gr3 Fillies Mile at Turffontein. Trained by Sean Tarry, World Of Alice had finished second, to subsequent World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas winner Fatal Flaw, in the HSH Princess Charlene Gr3 Starling Stakes.
DECEMBER
One Stripe became his sire’s first Grade One winner when he won the Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas, a race won by One World’s own sire Captain Al in 2000. One Stripe was one of two runners in the Cape Guineas for his sire, with All Out For Six finishing sixth behind his paternal half-brother.
The story continues…
