Bringing two siblings to Gr1 winners to the sale, its no surprise that the Willow Magic sister to Gr1 winner Hero’s Honour and Gr1 2nd placed Railtrip topped the #kznbreds on sale – knocked down to Pizzaz Racing for R325 000, Lot 54 named Toocoolforschool.

Her dam Grail Maiden, a daughter of Galileo, has produced 4 runners and 4 winners – her now three year old by Capetown Noir, named Enoble, is now an unbeaten 2yo in Kenya. He was bought by a close relative to the Late Princess Diana, Mr Spencer at this sale last year.

Jane Thomas’ Far End Farm sold the second highest Lot of the sale, a Dynasty colt purchased off Book 1 at the beginning of the year. Beautifully named Steeplechase, he was sold to Dean Kannemeyer for R600 000.

In more KZN associated news, the top seller overall came from Ndoro Stud, with a flashy son of #kznbred Futura (born at Yellow Star Stud for breeder Guy Murdoch) knocked down to international firm Eibloodstock for R1,3-million. The colt will enter training with Brett Crawford, who trained also trained Futura.

Futura by Dynasty, who stands at Drakenstein Stud, topped the sale as a stallion, selling 3 lots for an average of over R530 000 each.

Congratulations to all concerned.

Summerhill Stud, acting as Summerhill Sales as Agent, will be offering 64 two-year-olds at Sunday’s Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale.

Set to be held at the TBA complex in Germiston, the one day auction gets underway this weekend at 14:00 pm sharp, with the sale due to be conducted by auctioneers Graeme Hawkins and Andrew Miller.

Mooi River farm Summerhill Stud dominate the Ready To Run catalogue and offer nearly 60% of the 109 lots catalogued.

Among their draft are lots by such high profile stallions as Duke Of Marmalade, Querari, Silvano, Trippi, Visionaire and Vercingetorix, while Summerhill’s resident sire Capetown Noir, a triple G1 winning son of multiple champion sire Western Winter, has 15 members of his first crop on offer in the Summerhill draft.

One horse in this draft sure to attract attention is Hurricane Harry, catalogued as lot 85. He is a son of  Trippi, whose recent winners included the graded victors Chimichuri Run and Love To Boogie. Hurricane Harry, who is out of the winning Fard mare Jordie, is a half-brother to 3 winners notably new Summerhill sire Rabada –whose victories included both the G1 Premiers Champion Stakes and G1 Daily News 2000.

Another colt bound to catch the eye is the Duke Of Marmalade son The Sandwich Man, Lot 91 (footage). This colt, whose sire was responsible for both the second and third in Saturday’s G2 Western Cape Fillies Championship on Saturday, is out of the high class Rambo Dancer mare Lisa Anne, who won three and who finished third in the G1 Empress Club Stakes.

At stud, Lisa Anne made her mark through the deeds of her daughter Takingthepeace (a R280 000 buy from the Ready To Run Sale in 2016), who won two of the three legs of South Africa’s Triple Tiara last season for the Mike de Kock yard.

Takingthepeace’s G1 King’s Bishop Stakes winning sire Visionaire also has a very classy bunch in the Summerhill Ready To Run draft. They include Riding The Crest (Lot 19) – a half-brother to four stakes horses notably G1 Summer Cup runner up Shogunnar, Final Tribute (Lot 22) – a half-sister to multiple stakes winning filly Salutation, and Thandekhile (Lot43). The latter is a daughter of Thekwini Stakes winner Bridal Paths and is a full-sister to the recent Brett Crawford trained winner Bestday Of Mylife.

The possibly pick of Capetown Noir’s 15 strong contingent in the Summerhill draft is Ennoble (Lot 73). This is a colt with a very powerful pedigree – Ennoble being a half-brother to Gary Alexander Racing Stables’ 2018 G1 SA Derby winner Hero’s Honour and last season’s G1 Thekwini Stakes runner up Railtrip, trained by Chesney van Zyl Racing.

Ennoble also hails from the same family as such international standouts as Kingman, Oasis Dream, Beat Hollow and New Bay – to name a few.

Summerhill will also be offering siblings to such notable graded winners as Royal Pleasure, Winning Leap, and The Thinker as well as number of other high class stakes performers.

The pre-sale gallops of this year’s sale can be viewed at www.bsa.co.za, with the Summerhill draft also being shown at www.summerhill.co.za/ready-to-run-sale-2018/

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Those that’ve made the annual pilgrimage will know that the Ready To Run gallops at Summerhill had evolved into a national institution over the first three decades of their existence.

The dictates of a lower market have called for a more modest approach, now in the form of what one might term “private” gallops, where the object is to get them filmed for public consumption on television, websites and on social media. The popularity of the gallops among hard core racing people however, meant that there was still a nucleus of professional observers, leading trainers, champion jockeys and dyed-in-the-wool owners and racing fans at Summerhill on Thursday, notwithstanding the sudden change of date on account of a nasty weather alert.

And the horses. Especially the horses, more so as the word leaking from the assembly of various consignors was that this draft, if not the best ever, would at least rival the one that gave racing three Group One-winning sophomores just this past season, Takingthepeace, Hero’s Honour and Brave Mary, not to mention Chesneys van Zyl’s highly regarded Group One runner-up, Railtrip.

While it’s easy to forget just how good the 2016 vintage was, there was a solid body of opinion among the top horsemen in the camp that this was the draft of all drafts, and while predictions can sometimes stray in the world of the racehorse, knowing those gathered and the sheer weight of their experience, as a player you’d want to be paying attention.

Several of them were interviewed after the gallops, and were fairly unanimous in their praise. We won’t spoil the viewing on television for those of you whose curiosity has been aroused, other than to say that once the gallops are live in the public domain on Wednesday, it will be your turn to judge them.

2018 Summerhill Ready To Run Log – 15 October 2018

Bloodstock South Africa are proud to announce that the catalogue for the 2018 Ready To Run Sale is now online and can be viewed live at www.bsa.co.za

Traditionally one of South Africa’s most popular auctions, the Ready To Run Sale is due to take place this year at the TBA complex in Germiston on 4th of November, and will be held on the same day as the Johannesburg Mixed Sale.

The catalogue is made up of 111 well bred 2yos, and this strong looking sale looks sure to produce its share of high class runners!

The Ready To Run Sale has a long and proud of history of producing outstanding athletes, many of whom were acquired for very reasonable prices. Recent past graduates of this sale include former Horse Of The Year Igugu, as well as such graded stakes winning stars as Pierre Jourdan, Redcarpet Captain, Chestnuts And Pearls, Rich Girl, Tamaanee, and Dylan’s Promise.

Top sires represented at this year’s auction include all of Captain Al, Duke Of Marmalade, Dynasty, Elusive Fort, Gimmethegreenlight, Pomodoro, Querari, Silvano, Trippi, Var, Visionaire and What A Winter.

Young stallions represented by members of their first local crops this year include triple G1 winner and Equus Champion Capetown Noir, the Captain Al sired Equus Champion Captain Of All, Jet Master’s well bred G2 son Divine Jet, multiple G1 winner Linngari, globetrotting Equus Champions Soft Falling Rain and Vercingetorix, and Redoute’s Choice’s multiple G1 winner Wylie Hall.

There are a large number of well bred lots on offer at the 2018 Ready To Run Sale notably:

Lot 2 –a Capetown Noir ½ sister to Merchants winner The Thinker

Lot 6 –a Capetown Noir ½ brother to 8 winners including stakes winner Onehundredacrewood

Lot 7 –a Capetown Noir ½ brother to G3 winner Royal Pleasure

Lot 14 –a Capetown Noir colt out of Gerald Rosenberg Stakes winner Spring Garland

Lot 16 –a Capetown Noir ½ brother to G2 winner Winning Leap

Lot 17 –a Silvano colt out of G2 winner Surabi

Lot 19 –a Visionaire ½ brother to 4 stakes horses including Summer Cup second Shogunnar

Lot 20 –a Var colt out of Oaks winner Sweetie Pie

Lot 21 –a Dynasty filly from the family of G1 winning siblings Ectot and Most Improved

Lot 22 –a Visionaire ½ sister to multiple stakes winner Salutation

Lot 25 –a Silvano colt out of G2 winner Waywest Goddess

Lot 29 –a Visionaire ½ brother to champion Comanche Brave

Lot 33 –a Gimmethegreenlight colt out of a G3 winning Dubawi mare

Lot 43 –a Visionaire filly out of G2 winner Bridal Paths

Lot 50 –a Soft Falling Rain ¾ brother to record breaking stakes winner In Like Flynn

Lot 63 –a Soft Falling Rain colt out of a G2 placed daughter of Hard Spun

Lot 73 –a Visionaire half-brother to SA Derby winner Hero’s Honour and G1 filly Railtrip

Lot 84 –a Visionaire filly out of Syringa Handicap winner Ithala

Lot 85 –a Trippi half-brother to multiple G1 winner and sire Rabada

Lot 91 –a Duke Of Marmalade half-brother to G1 winner and star filly Takingthepeace

Lot 98 –a Var own sister to G1 filly Schiffer

Lot 100 –a Soft Falling Rain filly out of G2 performer Mombasa

Lot 101 –a Captain Al colt from the family of Red Ray and Set Afire

Lot 104 –a Visionaire half-sister to Mauritian champion Solar Star

Lot 108 –a Pomodoro filly out of stakes winner Pacific Breeze

Summerhill held their annual Summer Ready To Run Sale on Tuesday in the traditional first class hospitality that is Summerhill Stud, provided by Hartford House. The sale was held in conjunction with Michael Holmes Bloodstock.

Graeme Hawkins once again did the honours as auctioneer on behalf of Michael Holmes Bloodstock, with buyers from across the country descending on the leading stud farm in South Africa to find another of the likes of No Worries, Tomorrow’s Miss and Flyfirstclass, graduates of this sale in the past recent years.

Eight horses sold for over R100 000 from the 62 Lots solds, with 2015 Leading National Freshman sire Visionaire proving the most popular with seven of his progeny selling for more than six figures each.

The top sellers of the day were both purchased by Nchakha Moloi – a Visionaire (Lot 22) and Golden Sword (Lot 69) filly for R220 000 and R180 000 respectively.

Lot 22 is an eyecatching Visionaire filly, very typical of her sires’s stamp. She is out of Glitz by Coastal, a half-sister to Nondweni – a Muhtafal filly who won three times and placed second in the Gr3 Kenilworth Fillies Nursery and the Lady’s Slipper Stakes. The dam has produced six runners and five winners, descending from the female line of Imperial Despatch and Footstepsinthesand.

Lot 69, a lovely filly by Golden Sword out of Amabokoboko by Sunny North is a half-sister to the famed Bhekinkosi, a 10-time winner by Kahal over 1200m – 2200m who also placed 19 times – including the Gr3 Jubilee Handicap, twice. This is brilliant damline that includes the likes of sire’s Noverre, Fabuleux Dancer and Formidable. The dam Amabokoboko has produced eight runners and seven winners to date.

The top priced colt of the sale was purchased by Michel Nairac, Lot 43 named Midnight Man. A son of Visionaire out of Now Is The Hour by National Assembly, the mare has produced a previous winner by A.P. Arrow, Airtime. Midnight Man sold for R160 000 and shares a damline with Appelate Court.

Congratulations to the buyers and leading purchaser Nchakha Moloi, we look forward to seeing these horses fly the Summerhill and KZN flag in the winners circle very soon.

To view the full results of the sale, click on the following link.

*Editors note: Wishing Summerhill’s Mick Goss a swift recovery as Mick has recently taken ill.

Click here to view the catalogue online