Missisippi Burning wins the Gr2 KZN Fillies Guineas (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)

The Rathmor-bred Missisippi Burning, who was raced here by Mario Ferreira and trained by Adam Marcus – she was his first Gr1 winner – is a dual Guineas winner, having also won the WSB Gr2 Fillies Guineas at Hollywoodbets Greyville.

A daughter of multiple champion Captain Al (Al Mufti) , she is out of the Australian bred Hussonet mare Spitfire Lady and won 5 races from 1000m to a mile.

Missisippi Burning was a R380 000 BSA National Yearling Sale purchase.

Yulong’s Sam Fairgray said of the Newgate Consignment, Aberdeen, NSW (As Agent) lot:

“Missisippi Burning’s supposed to be carrying a colt, we saw last week those couple of Frankel colts sold very well as weanlings, but we’ll most likely keep them and race them. She’ll probably go to Tagaloa next.Size-wise, she probably just needs a little bit of leg, which he’ll give and the pedigree works on paper.”

See Missisippi Burning’s (# 1016) catalogue page – click here.

Yulong’s Sam Fairgray speaks to the media (Pic – Magic Millions)

One of their high profile purchases was the featured Lot 910, an English-bred mare carrying a cover to Frankel (GB).

Yulong parted with A$1 375 000 to secure the beautifully prepared mare out of Arrowfield Stud’s draft and Sam Fairgray was very clear on the appeal to Great Vibes (GB), “She was a beautiful mare, probably the best-looking mare in-foal to Frankel, so we’re really pleased to be taking her home. It’s a nice early service, if it comes out looking like her it’ll be a good sort!”

“It is very difficult but with the mares that you really want, the quality, you’ve got to pitch up and go for them because at the end of the day you’ll get rewarded on the other side,” Fairgray observed.

“You’re better off buying the mares that you really want and know that are going to leave you the right physical down the track because you’ll get the results in the sale ring with their yearlings.”

Besides Missisippi Burning, on Thursday Yulong also purchased the dam of Stradbroke fancy Yellow Brick, Magical Mist (NZ), in foal to Maurice (JPN) for A$775,000.

They also purchased Elliptical’s dam Marquise Dar Rossa in foal to So You Think for A$675 000 and four mares in foal to northern hemisphere superstar Frankel, Siyouni (FR) mares Pledged (GB) and Small Print (GB) for A$700 000 each and Murasaki (GB) for A$500 000.

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Breeders of such standout performers Gypsy’s Warning, Surabi, Romany Prince and the G1 winning half-siblings Malteme and Wendywood, Rathmor Stud will be offering a superb consignment at the 2019 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale this month.

Rathmor’s draft includes yearlings by outstanding stallions Frankel, Captain Al, Dynasty and Var, as well as lots by such exciting and popular young sires Coup De Grace and Global View, while the blue blooded Unbridled’s Song horse Noble Tune has six in the Rathmor draft.

Candice Dawson enjoyed the honour of saddling  the first winner of KZN Galileo stallion The Assayer, whose son Lumber Jackaroo stormed to victory in the first race at Turffontein on Thursday evening.

Based at Yellow Star Stud, The Assayer stood his first season in 2014 and only produced 6 foals in his first crop.

Bred on the Galileo x Danehill cross that has produced Frankel and numerous other champions, his 2018 fee was R10 000.

Improving smartly at his second start and stepping up to the mile, Lumber Jackaroo came home powerfully in the Turffontein opener under Denis Schwarz for trainer Candice Dawson.

The Spring Valley Syndicate bred grey gelding is out of the six-time winner Forest Lecture, a daughter of Lecture.

The Assayer had an eyecatching Barrier Trial winner with Thomas Shelby, trained by Ivan Van Wyk for breeders Yellow Star Stud and owner Mr A F J Duncan.

The juvenile colt looks a smart prospect, finishing first by almost two lengths. Another that is close to winning from trainer Craig Mayhew is Flirty Girty, who has finished second in her last two starts. Also bred by the Spring Valley Syndicate, the three year old is out of a Dominion Royale mare.

The Assayer sold for R1-million at the National Yearling Sale and began his training career with Charles Laird for the Markus Jooste and Bernard Kantor racing partnership.

The handsome grey later relocated to Mike De Kock, racing 10 times to win once and placed twice in two Gr1’s – the Golden Horseshoe and Premier’s Championship. He placed nine times in total.  An injury forced an early retirement.

His dam Crystal Charm made two appearances as a two year old in the UK, placing in both with Listed status. She was sent to Hong Kong, finishing second to Fairy King Prawn at Sha-Tin in the Hong Kong Sprint by a length.

A year later she finished with the same result in the same race, and sent back to Ireland for stud duties.

Sold in foal to Cadeaux Genereux, she was then sent to Australia where she was covered by Galileo.

The Cadeaux Genereux mating produced Les Alizes, in turn the dam of 4-time winning Arrived Ahead in Hong Kong; also placing in the Gr3 Sha-Tin Vase.

A dam-line bursting with Gr1 winners, it includes the likes of half-siblings four-time Gr1 winner Timely Writer and dual Gr1 winner Timely Assertion – both found under the second dam Timely Tammy.

Others include Wild Wolverine, champion filly Indian Skimmer, Dark Mirage, Missy’s Mirage, sires Bluebird, Java Gold and Madeglia d’Oro, and local Gr1 Mercury Sprint winner All Will Be Well.

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Whilst their places will only be confirmed after National Yearling Sales inspections have taken place in January, Rathmor Stud have a very strong draft beginning their sales preparations for the 2019 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale.

They include progeny by Frankel, Dynasty and Noble Tune – two of them out of sales topping mares purchased off the CTS Mare Sales in 2017, for R2,4-million (Almosthaditall) and R2,6-million (Queen Of Spain) respectively.

Whilst walking through the paddocks as the colts quietly concentrate on their feed after the breakfast run, Mike McHardy of Rathmor Stud comments that although the paddock is brimming with stock from superior stallions, its important not to ‘mollycoddle’ them and to raise them as normal horses, who dont know who their famous sires are.

Noble Tune has already earned Black Type with his smart grey son White Lightning, who was born and raised at Rathmor Stud. Rathmor have bred the likes of Gypsy’s Warning, Wendywood, Surabi, Romany Prince and Harry Lime amongst others.

Their National yearlings are out of mares bought specifically for Noble Tune, which include:

– Dynasty colt out of Guard The Lines by War Front
  Dam is a full sister to American Gr1 and Gr2 winner DATA LINK.

– Noble Tune out of Spitfire Lady by Hussonet
  Family of PINNACLES and PLANET ROCK.

– Noble Tune out of Mystery Dame by Jet Master
  Half-brother to Gr1 winner LADY IN BLACK, and to Nexus who sold for R1,7-million in 2017.

– Frankel out of Queen Of Spain by Holy Roman Emperor
  Dam a half-sister to MASTERCRAFTSMAN.

– Dynasty out of Almosthaditall by Henrythenavigator
  Dam a half-sister to JUMP START and closely related to MASTERY. Damline of sire MISWAKI.

– Noble Tune out of Golden Earings by Fort Wood
  Dam a half-sister to GYPSY’S WARNING, ROMANY PRINCE and SURABI. 2nd Dam Gypsy Queen has already       produced Black Type grand-children including SO VAR and QUEEN FOREVER. 

In a further effort to further boost the blue-blooded broodmare band for young stallion Noble Tune, Rathmor Stud for the second time headed the buyers list at the CTS Breeding Stock Sale by purchasing Lot 269 Queen Of Spain (IRE) for the sales topping R2,6-million, with a Frankel foal at foot and in foal to first season sire, William Longsword.

Last year, Rathmor purchased a daughter of Henrythenavigator in foal to Dynasty for R2,4-million and she foaled a magnificent colt. She is currently in foal to Noble Tune.

Queen Of Spain, a daughter of Holy Roman Emperor out of Starlight Dreams by Black Tie Affair, is from the damline of Sakhee and her dam is a half-sister to three time Gr1 winning Mastercraftsman. The mare Queen Of Spain has produced two previous foals by Galileo and High Chapparal.

Amongst Rathmor’s exceptional broodmare band is the likes of African Love, Mitra, Azure Sky, Mystery Dame (Lady In Black), Eventual Angel, Summer Angel (dam of Eventual Angel and Exit Here), Golden Earings, Royal Aspen, Kiribati, Misty River, Chiquita and Victory Garden.

Rathmor also purchased a single filly off of the CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale – a Flower Alley half-sister to A Women’s Way and Gr1 2nd placed Ancestory, bred by Avontuur Stud. Named White Lace and consigned as Lot 183, this is the female line of Breyani.

A Women’s Way is a Gr2 winner owned by another KZN Breeder in partnership, Bruce Le Roux and Tinus Gericke. The daughter of Var is destined for the paddocks of Spring Valley Stud at the end of her career.

Rathmor paid R400 000 for the daughter of a sire that produced I’ll Have Another, a winner of two legs of the American Triple Crown and a sire in Japan.

Keep a look out for Rathmor’s exceptional draft at the 2018 National Yearling Sale.

KZN broodmares featured in the CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale, headed up by the first produce sold out of KZN Breeders Horse Of The Year, Beach Beauty from breeders Drakenstein Stud.

Her athletic Trippi colt was knocked down for R2,5-million to John Freeman.

Others to feature on the second day included Gr2 winner Eastern Greeting, bred by the Kjell Foundation. The full sister to Kalaam and Kwinta saw her Var colt sold to Paul Peter for R250 000.

Overall, the sale sold 221 horses from 254 catalogued, for an average of R504 411 each. The top seller was R4-million for a Frankel colt.

Three of KZN’s young sires have their juvenile siblings making starts in Group races in the upcoming months – among them Crusade, Eightfold Path and Flying The Flag. Interestingly, all three siblings are by super-sire Galileo, all in training with Aiden O’ Brien and all owned in partnership by Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith.

Crusade’s half-sister and 2-time winning Seventh Heaven, after winning the Oaks Trial Listed has been entered into the Gr1 Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh mid-July as well as the Gr3 Irish Stallion Farms Give Thanks Stakes in August. She ran in the Gr1 Investec Oaks only to be pulled up out of the race at the beginning of June, which Minding won.

Gr1 Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade has seen his well stamped yearlings being hotly received at the National Yearling Sale and KZN Yearling Sale, yielding impressive averages at both sales – Nationals he averaged R160 000 for 18 yearlings sold, and almost R100 000 at the KZN Yearling Sale for 16 yearlings sold.

Eightfold Path’s half-brother impressed on debut – Diodorus is also partly owned by breeder Flaxman Holdings, was given a sympathetic ride to let the colt enjoy himself under a hands and heels ride. He finished third without pressure,  the colt out of 5-time Gr1 winning Divine Proportions holds a Gr1 entry in the Vincent O’Brien National Stakes to be run at The Curragh on 11 September.

French Gr3 winner Eightfold Path by Giant’s Causeway has had his yearlings snapped at the Nationals and KZN Yearling Sales – the Nationals saw an outstanding filly for R325 000 sold to Louis Goosen and the KZN Yearling Sale, a super colt bred by Roski Stud sold for R160 000 whilst Scott Bros had Passioneight (out of a full sister to Gr1 Scarena) sell for R125 000.

Bush Hill Stud’s new stallion prospect for 2016 sees his younger full-sister Rhododendron entered for the Gr2 Lowther Stakes at York in August. The filly finished second on debut in her only start at the Curragh over seven furlongs. She looks to follow in her big brother’s footsteps, a winner of the Gr2 International Stakes, he won by an incredible four lengths.

They are out of super mare and triple Gr1 winner Halfway To Heaven, a daughter of Europe’s top sire and broodmare sire Pivotal – in turn out of the brilliant Cassandra Go. Flying The Flag will be introduced to breeders on 29 July at Bush Hill Stud, where he will stand for R20 000 in his first season.

World leading sire Galileo has seen his son Frankel’s progeny impressing on debut with almost all them winners to date.

Yellow Star Stud’s grey son of Galileo – the first at stud in South Africa will have his first crop become yearlings in August.

The Assayer is bred on the same success cross as Frankel, out of a Danehill mare – in turn out of a Rainbow Quest mare.

The Assayer won once and placed eight times from 10 starts, including placing behind Gold Onyx in the Gr1 Premier’s Champion Stakes (with English Garden behind him), and third in the Gr1 Golden Horseshoe, where the likes of Gold Onyx and The Mouseketeer finished behind him.

The Assayer stands for R5 000 this season at Yellow Star Stud.

Gr1 Allan Robertson winner Chocolicious, a Backworth Stud-bred daughter of Kahal has seen her first yearling by Frankel sold to Shadwell Stud for $610 000, off the Inglis Australia Easter Yearling Sale. She is the first yearling by Frankel to be sold in the Southern Hemisphere.

The chestnut filly will be exported and sent to Mike De Kock to train in South Africa. Interestingly, Backworth Stud have Lot 81 named Honour Bound consigned at the upcoming National Yearling Sale – a Kahal filly out of an Exclusive Patriot mare, and the yearling is a half-sister to Gr2 winner, Colour Of Courage.

This yearling filly would be a three parts sister to Chocolicious – the latter out of an Exclusive Patriot mare, Candy Box, in turn out of an Our Casey’s Boy mare.

Chocolicious has since foaled a second filly, by Fastnet Rock in 2015.

After a successful racing career in South Africa with Herman Brown Junior, Chocolicious was exported to Dubai to race.

She placed second in the Gr3 Meydan Tennis Championships Stakes, and third in the UAE 1000 Guineas (L) – and was sent back to South Africa in training with Frank Robinson, where she won. A R220 000 National Yearling Sales graduate, she won six races over 1000m – 1200m.

She was sold to Australian interests and exported with the intention of sending her to Ascot to race, however plans changed and she was covered by Frankel and sold at Goff’s Breeding Stock Sale for 400 000 Euro and exported to Australia.

She is the second Gr1 winning daughter of Kahal to stand at stud in Australia, behind Noble Heir.

Backworth Stud have two progeny of Kahal on sale at the upcoming National Yearling Sale, amongst eight horses consigned.

This is the final crop of yearlings available from the ever consistent Top 5 sire in South Africa, Kahal.

Backworth Stud won the KZN Breeders Achievement Award in 2012 after achieving a winners to runners percentage of an outstanding 54%.

They have bred the likes of recent Scottsville course record breaker Humidor who shattered Kildonan’s Gr1 course record, Chocolicious, Colour Of Courage, First Again, Variometer and Raise The Bar, and more recently smart Western Winter filly, Ice Run.