Piemonte will be offering a large draft of 15 two-year-olds at this year’s sale, with their consignment including the offspring of such sires as Act Of War, Capetown Noir, Flying The Flag, Global View, Ideal World, Oratorio and Toreador.
The national 2018 / 2019 racing season curtain came down yesterday, and appropriately the final race in the country to be run was won by a #kznbred, a Curved Ball half-sister to a Gr2 winner Tales Of Bravery, named Sweet Empress, bred by Bruce Le Roux of Spring Valley Stud. Amongst KZN’s success for the…
The first came with the beautiful Clifton-bred Soft Falling Rain filly Montreal Mist, out of Esterel by Var. Purchased at the National Yearling Sale Session 1 in 2018 for R700 000 and owned in partnership by Mary Slack and Michael Javett, Montreal Mist gave her deceased sire his first Graded Stakes winner. The second was Summerhill-bred daughter of Brave Tin Soldier, taking the Gr2 Kuda Gold Bracelet.
Clifton Stud will be offering ten two-year-olds, four as agent, at August’s National 2YO Sale, with the farm’s draft including lots by such stallions as Flying The Flag, Ideal World, Mogok and Toreador.
“Flying The Flag, whose own sister Magical recently ran second in the G1 Coral-Eclipse to superstar Enable, is also sire of Hoist High (Lot 234), a filly out of an own sister to the stakes placed Oklahoma Sky. This beautifully bred filly is from the same female line as outstanding sire and broodmare sire Pivotal –damsire of Flying The Flag himself!”
Bruce Le Roux brought a strong draft of well prepared yearlings to the Sibaya KZN Yearling Sale, and was rewarded when his outstanding Futura colt was knocked down for R170 000 to Vermaak Equine, making him the most expensive #kznbred colt on Day 2.
Hadlow Stud topped the #kznbreds on Day 1 of the KZN Yearling Sale at Sibaya on July 4. Sold to Mr M Dhanniram for R180 000, the colt is by Querari out of Be My Buddy by Russian Revival, in turn out of a Fort Wood mare. The mare has produced 3 runners and two winners to date. This is the damline of Champion sire and Broodmare sire Jet Master and Festival Of Fire.
The four-year-old Await The Dawn gelding Morning Catch caught most punters and pundits by surprise when he fought a courageous battle in the closing stages to win the R1-million Non-Black Type KZN Breeders Million Mile at Hollywoodbets Greyville in Durban on Saturday. Out of the Jet Master mare Catch The Wind, the bay gelding under…
Camphoratus was given the green light for a run in the Vodacom Durban July with the scratching of Magnificent Seven due to lameness in a foreleg, and gave an impressive account for herself this morning at the Vodacom Durban July Gallops on the same track that she won the Gr3 Flamboyant in December. Interestingly, Camphoratus…
Peter and Jenny Blyth’s Clifton Stud will be offering a quality, eleven strong draft at this year’s KZN Yearling Sale, with four lots offered as agent. This draft is made up of yearlings by a range of different sires including Capetown Noir, Crusade, Flying The Flag, Ideal World and Mogok. Triple G1 winner Capetown Noir…