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Variety and value on Cape Summer Yearling Sale
Published by charl on January 21, 2010
THIRTEEN first-season sires will be represented at the 2010 BloodStock SA Cape Summer Yearling Sale to be held at Sandringham Farm near Stellenbosch on 7 February, starting at 11am.
The sale throws their yearlings into a mix of 254 auction lots along with progeny of all South Africa’s established stallions. The result is a rare variety of quality and a host of potential stars.
Pedigree expert Alan Laidlaw believes this is a sale where diligent bloodstock students will find superb bloodstock at good value. He comments: “I have worked through this very interesting catalogue. The deeper one goes, the more it becomes apparent that there are several superb bloodlines represented all over. We have many good studbook families here with active second and third dams.”
Laidlaw believes that the offspring of Black Minnaloushe (2 lots) and Greys Inn (3 lots), to name but two new stallions, will make the grade in South Africa.
He said: “Black Minnaloushe has had two Group 1 winners in the last year and he certainly looks the part. Greys Inn has a phenomenal pedigree and being a son of the mighty sire of sires Zabeel he has a lot going for him. John Kramer informs me that Greys Inn’s foals are impressive and I am looking forward to seeing them in the flesh.”
Second season sire Tiger Ridge has already made a big impression with two winners from three runners in his first SA crop, while the offspring of the now established Dynasty and the deceased Victory Moon are setting the tracks alight. “Dynasty has already had three black-type horses and looks like he has a bright future.”
He singled out Lot 123 as a Dynasty colt with a good female line, saying: “This one is from an Al Mufti mare and the second and third dam produced champions.”
Laidlaw is also a fan of Silvano and VAR and he said: ”One can’t go wrong. They have six foals apiece on this sale and they will be hot property. I like Lot 16 (SEE PHOTO ON WEBSITE), a Silvano filly from Blue Acres. She is a full sister to last year’s sales-topper, Victor Silvester. Lot 110 is a VAR from a tremendous family, the third dam produced several champions.”
Laidlaw said that Windrush, in his opinion, was an under-rated sire who offers great value. He pointed to Lot 3, a Windrush filly from the family of Trademark and said: “There will be differing opinions, but those who do their homework for this sale are going to walk away with some shrewd buys!”
For further information contact BSA’s CEO - Jan Naude or Sales Manager - Caroline Simpson - +27(0)11 323 5700
- enquiries@tba.co.za. The catalogue is available on the website: www.tba.co.za or from TBA Sales Complex.
Photo: Dynasty, new sire sensation.
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John Freeman on Mon, 25th Jan 2010 3:39 pm
Hello Racingweb - thanks for your coverage of the Cape Sale and specifically your mention of Dynasty - we are really pleased with what he is doing now and feel certain that this is just the beginning of much more to come - his progeny show a bit more precocity than he did but there is no doubt that they will train on like he did. just one point - you write that he is the sire of “3 black type horses” - this is not strictly true - he actually has “3 stakes winners” but he actually has 7 black type horses as this term implies win and placed stakes horses not just winners. Sorry to be technical but thought it good to get it right. his stakes winners are Squashy Joy (she won two Stakes races), Irish Flame and Delotto (most recent winner - Michael Roberts Hcap (L)). don’t look for these results on ARO as they have Delotto’s last run as 30th December - so well out of date - just looked. ARO do list the stakes placed runners - Ancestral Fore, Paddy O’Reilly, Saxe Cobourg