Bernardini filly – the R1.5 million sales topper
Ready To Run sales are interesting occasions. The richly endowed races attached to these sales invariably attract 2yos sold at previous sales, purely entered to qualify for the race – their vendors often have no real inclination to sell.
Ready To Run sales also provide an opportunity for pinhooking (buying with the intention to re-sell at a profit), especially with 2yos bought earlier in the year in Australia, which has a thriving international stallion population. The top priced filly at the Lanzerac sponsored Cape Ready To Run sale falls in the latter category. She’s by AP Indy’s Gr1 producing son Bernardini, who shuttled from the USA to Australia. The filly was bought as a yearling by Kerry Jack for A$25k, and here knocked down to Mayfair Speculators for R1.5m.
Second top price of R1.4 million was shared by a colt and a filly.
Kerry Jack bid R1.4 million for the Western Winter full brother to Nania, Red Ray and Brutal Force. The colt had earlier in the year been knocked down to James Bester, who went to R500k at the National Sale. Rainbow Beach Trading is listed as the buyer of the R1.4m filly, a daughter of Galileo’s Gr1 producing son New Approach. The filly had been bought as a yearling in Australia for A$13k, and provided a handsome return. Four other 2yo’s broke the million Rand barrier.
Redoute’s Choice
Mayfair Speculators went to R1.3m for a colt by Nadeem, a Gr1 producing son of champion Redoute’s Choice.
The colt had been bought for A$40k earlier this year. Green Street Bloodstock signed for a half brother to Cape Guineas winner Le Drakkar, at R1.2m. The colt is by Gr1 producing stallion Sebring (by More Than Ready), and had been bought as a weanling in Australia for A$11k, where Paul Lafferty signed the slip.
Kerry Jack’s name popped up again through a High Chapparal filly, secured by Mayfair Speculators for R1m. Kerry had bought the filly as a weanling for A$75k, and the youngster earlier this year changed hands at the CTS Book One sale for R700k. The final millionaire was a Seventh Rock colt, for which Rainbow Beach Trading signed the ticket at R1m. The colt’s dam had gone through the ring at the 2011 Cape Mare sale and again at the same venue in 2012. She’d changed hands both times for just R5k. Her pedigree page improved since then, going from having no winners, to three winners, including a 7-timer and 4-timer. Such are the vagaries of broodmare sales!
The overall median at this year’s CTS Ready To Run Sale was down on last year, from 150k to 140k. This was due to fillies being in lesser demand, their median dropping from 130k last year to 100k this time round.
The colt’s median was up: 170k from 160k last year. The medians compare favourably to the CTS Gauteng RtR sale held in October, with an overall 110k (140k colts, 90k fillies).
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