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Spectrum Broodmare Tops Sale Share

Spectrum - Standing at Yellow Star Stud The Sporting Post reports that Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith paid 900,000gns for the sale-topper 13 year old Ventura(Ire) by Yellow Star resident stallion Spectrum(Ire), offered as one of Makfi(GB)’s first book of mares this year.

The mare, owned by the Al-Thani family’s Qatar Bloodstock, was bought for 260,000gns at Tattersalls last year, but her daughter Moonlight Cloud(GB) by Invincible Spirit(Ire) subsequently won this year’s Grade 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.

M.V. Magnier outbid first Grant Pritchard-Gordon and finally Liam Norris for the mare. “She’s for Derrick and Michael and they wanted her to send to Pour Moi (Ire) next year,” confirmed Magnier.

Spectrum, by Rainbow Quest - River Dancer by Irish River, is a four time winner including the Irish 2000 Guineas 1600m Grade 1 and the Champion Stakes 2000m Grade 1, from 1600 - 2000m and he was given a Time Form rating of 126 at the age of 3.

He is the Sire of Sire Golan, winner of the English 2000 Guineas, and the Grade 1 producing Broodmare Sire of Winchester, Cedarberg and Dutch Art who is now standing at Cheveley Stud. Dutch Art was was recently the leading first crop sire in the UK with stakes won, to date under 400,000 for this year.

As a racehorse Dutch Art won the Grade 1 Middle Park Stakes and the Prix Morny as a 2 year old. He has been represented by over 20 individual winners in the UK alone this season.
His first crop of 2yos include the G2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Caspar Netscher as well as the stakes winning filly Miss Work Of Art.

In South Africa his progeny include The Plunderer who won the Grade 3 Champion Juvenile Cup, another son Beacon Flare who ran a second in the Grade 1 Premier's Champion Stakes, and another gelding called Captain Haddock out of the brilliant racemare Overarching - placed in the Grade 3 Protea Stakes.

If you would like to contact Yellow Star Stud about Spectrum(IRE), please contact Koos 083 390 3045 or Lorraine 082 897 7179 or alternatively email info@yellowstarstud.co.za. or stud@yellowstarstud.co.za.
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