Broodmare daughters of the late Silvano (Lomitas) made their presence felt on Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas day.
The Hollywoodbets Gr1 Cape Guineas winner One Stripe (One World) is out of the Silvano mare Silver Stripe, and the SplashOut Gr3 Victress Stakes winner Rainbow Lorikeet (Querari) was produced by another daughter of Silvano in Nightingale.
One Stripe and Gavin Lerena in the Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas pre-race parade (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Tellingly, perhaps, both Silver Stripe and Nightingale were stakes winners, with the former’s three wins including a triumph in the Listed Spook Express Handicap, and the top-class Nightingale winning the 2017 Gr1 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes and finishing just three-parts of a length off paternal half-brother, and Equus Champion, Marinaresco in the 2017 Vodacom Durban July.
Rainbow Lorikeet is one of six graded stakes winners bred on the Querari/Silvano cross.
Rainbow Lorikeet is led in by Zac Bloch and the Yuppie Syndicate members (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
The tally is made up of Gr1 Douglas Whyte Thekwini Stakes winner Bavarian Beauty and fellow graded stakes winners Cosmic Light, Homely Girl, Wonderwall, and Cosmic Speed.
The latter recently made a winning return to the track, having won last season’s Gr2 Durban Golden Horseshoe.
Cosmic Speed is out of one of Silvano’s best broodmare daughters in the form of Cosmic Dream.
A lightly raced winner, Cosmic Dream is the dam of graded stakes winners Cosmic Light (Querari), Cosmic Highway (Gimmethegreenlight) and Cosmic Speed (Querari), but also ranks as the granddam of this season’s Listed Allied Steelrode Golden Loom Handicap winner Chyavana (Flower Alley).
Silvano ended last season sixth on South Africa’s Leading Broodmare Sires premiership, with the champion’s daughters responsible for eight black type winners who won 10 stakes races in the 2023-2024 South African racing season. He features prominently on the same list this season, and is currently in fifth spot.
Among Silvano’s flagbearers as a broodmare sire this season are Gr3 Betway Graham Beck Stakes winner Moonlight Trader (Erupt) and Love Is A Rose (Master Of My Fate). The latter finished runner- up in both the Listed Woolavington Stakes and Listed World Sports Betting Cape Summer Stayers Handicap.
The deceased son of Lomitas could well be on track to enjoy further success as a broodmare sire.
Cosmic Speed in action (Pic – Pauline Herman)
Silvano set to be represented as a broodmare sire by the trio of One Stripe, Rainbow Lorikeet and Cosmic Speed, and is broodmare sire of three likely runners in Saturday’s World Sports Betting Grand Heritage.
His maternal grandson Cosmic Highway, winner of the race last season, is also a potential starter in Sunday’s Gr2 Cape Merchants,
With a number of high-class daughters, such as Monday’s Mike de Kock Ipi Tombe Stakes runner-up Silver Sanctuary and Red Maple, yet to retire to the paddocks, Silvano will no doubt be making his presence felt as a broodmare sire for years to come.
