Almosthaditall, who made South African breeding news headlines when she sold for a sales topping R2,4-million to Rathmor Stud, is at home in Nottingham Road in foal to Noble Tune, with an outstanding Dynasty colt at foot.

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A daughter of four time Gr1 winner and 2000 Guineas winner Henrythenavingator, she sold at the time in foal to Dynasty and topped the charts at the CTS Mares, Weanlings & Fillies for stud Select Sale held at Highlands.

Allmosthaditall (USA) is a winner in Ireland with a previous foal by Rock Of Gibraltar in 2015 and a Galileo foal since.

She is out of a Storm Cat / Mr Prospector mare, from the damline of Gr1 winner Mastery and sire Miswaki.

Henrythenavigator is the sire in South Africa of Gr2 Betting World 1900 winner Ten Gun Salute, and his winning daughter Almosthaditall is a half-sister to Gr2 winner and successful US sire Jump Start and to the dam of retired and undefeated Gr1 winner Mastery.

Rathmor have bolstered Noble Tune’s book significantly with outstanding mares, including purchasing the likes of Mystery Dame (dam of Gr1 winner Lady In Black), Summer Angel (Eventual Angel and Exit Here), Azure Sky and African Love amongst them all.

At the National Yearling Sale in 2017, Rathmor sold the full brother to Lady In Black for R1,7-million, as well as a Silvano and Captain Al for R700 000 each respectively out of Royal Aspen and Kiribati.

Keep a look out for an athletic Captain Al filly and the beautiful Oratorio sibling to Lady In Black at the 2018 BSA National Yearling Sale.

Rathmor also have an outstanding Noble Tune filly consigned out of Free Parking by Silvano, who oozes plenty of quality and class, and a beautiful Silvano yearling on offer amongst their eyecatching draft.

Rathmor Stud have significantly boosted their broodmare band and we look forward to the winners to come from them in the future.

Giant’s Causeway, the sire of Scott Bros’ sire Eightfold Path and the now deceased Await The Dawn from Summerhill Stud, produced the sales topper at Keeneland last night when Take Charge Brandi sold for $6 million. Eightfold Path and Await The Dawn will have their first crop of yearlings on offer in 2016.

Champion Take Charge Brandi became the new Keeneland November breeding stock sale topper when with Hill ‘n’ Dale’s John Sikura signing the ticket. She was consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales on behalf of owner Willis Horton.

The 3-year-old daughter of Giant’s Causeway was champion 2-year-old filly of 2014 after she won the 14 Hands Winery Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Gr1 for Horton and trainer D. Wayne Lukas.

Lukas and Horton were sitting together at the sale. Lukas said Horton agonized over the decision before opting to sell the filly.

“We’re glad it went the way it did. I had no idea where it’d all end up. She’s special and you just can’t buy that family; it’s a broodmare of the year,” Lukas said. “The horse industry is very good right now.”

Sikura said the price ended up where he expected.

“I thought that mare was a $5 million to $6 million mare,” Sikura said. “She’s a champion, has a unique pedigree, is a beautiful individual, and you saw a weanling filly from the immediate family bring $3.2 million, so it’s a highly coveted family in the marketplace.

“So, top to bottom on any metric of the way you want to measure value, she had it: pedigree, performance, champion, temperament, active family, by the right sire, everything.”

Eightfold Path is a French Gr3 winner of the Prix Eclipse over 1200m. The stallion is producing outstanding foals with great size and substance, as is Await The Dawn whose last crop are being foaled this year – leaving just two crops before his untimely death.

A common denominator amongst the foals from both stallions are their size and substance, with really good bone beneath the knees – a trait from their sire, the “iron horse” Giant’s Causeway, a Champion son of Storm Cat. He is also the sire of a top stallion in Sharmadal.

The first yearlings from Eightfold Path and Await The Dawn will fall under the auction hammer in 2016.

– extract bloodhorse.com