An Equus Champion 2yo Colt of his year, multiple Gr1-winner Soqrat has settled in well at Sandown Stud in the Western Cape where he is in his second season.
One of the very best of his generation, the Australian-bred triple Gr1 winner is a naturally active stallion.
Stud Master James Armitage explains how it didn’t take much to get the well-performed stallion into shape for the 2021 breeding season.
Soqrat (Epaulette x Elzeeza) boasts an excellent fertility rate (Pic- Romi Bettison)
“He is looking fit and well, and enthusiastically running up and down the fence when any mare comes past,” smiles James.
James is undoubtedly excited about the stallion’s first crop of foals to arrive this year.
“It’s not often that you have a stallion with almost every single outside mare owner calling me to say what a lovely foal they have got.
“Even some of those with smaller mares have commented how Soqrat has injected some good size into their foals,” he says enthusiastically.
A veteran of the industry, James says that the Gr1 Cape Guineas winner produces foals with a good hindquarter, another exciting feature for this stallion.
Soqrat has an excellent fertility rate, covering 32 mares in the 2020 season with 29 mares confirmed in foal.
Sandown Stud (c) by Soqrat x Firdoas (Pic- Romi Bettison)
Some of those mares include the likes of So Royal, who has produced four stakes winners. She has a lovely filly born less than a week ago.
Another is Varachino, who is from a very fast female line; she has produced an outstanding colt. Defining Beauty, from the Olympic Jewel female line, also produced a lovely colt. Stakes -placed Shadwell mare Firdoas also has an impressive foal with a huge hindquarter that really showcases Soqrat’s quality.
As we advance into the 2021 breeding season, James is excited about the mares that have been sent to Soqrat this year. Amur Affair, the dam of the top-selling R800 000 Pomodoro colt at the recent BSA August Two Year Old Sale has been confirmed in foal, and Fakazi, dam of the exciting recent winner Perfect Witness, has also recently been covered by the Gr1 winning stallion.
Sandown Stud (f) Soqrat ex Natural Beauty (Pic- Romi Bettison)
“He’s a proper sprinter-miler, having run second in all of SA’s prestigious weight-for-age miles, and it looks like he is throwing that type of horse. Although he is not the biggest, he is producing horses with a lot of constitution and scope,” says James.
“We are just very excited about his foals and the quality they possess.”
Soqrat is by the Commands stallion Epaulette, whose wins included the Gr1 Golden Rose and Gr1 Doomben Ten Thousand. He is out of the dual winning Hussonet mare Elzeeza, and is from the immediate family of French 2000 Guineas winner and champion sire Linamix.
- Soqrat’s service fee for 2021 is R12 000, live foal guarantee.
- Contact James Armitage for more information: +27 72 680 3549
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