Photo Call, a twice-Gr1 winning three parts sister to Flying The Flag has produced her first foal by War Front, a filly.
Her dam Theann is a half-sister to Flying The Flag’s triple Gr1 winning dam, Halfway To Heaven, sharing the speedy third dam of Cassandra Go who raced under Michael Roberts. Both Photo Call and Flying The Flag share super sire Galileo.
Warwick Render of Bush Hill Stud comments on how fortunate they have been to have a horse of Flying The Flag’s calibre on the farm: “Every day I look at this horse I find it hard to believe just how lucky we are to have him here, had it not been for timing in our favour I doubt very much we would have seen him in this country at all with the recent international performances of his family. The quality of his first crop of foals just emphasises how special he is they are much in the mould of their sire, strong quatered high quality with good size and substance – we are absolutely thrilled.”
Our KZN sires have strong connections with the Breeders Cup this year, amongst them stallions Crusade (Seventh Heaven), Noble Tune (Made You Look) and Flying The Flag (Photo Call).
After the news filtered through of Flying The Flag’s full sister Rhododendron’s Gr1 win in the Dubai Fillies Mile, Photo Call (also by Galileo out of Theann – a daughter of Flying The Flag’s second dam Cassandra Go) won the Gr1 First Lady in the United States from Tepin by almost three lengths