The top-class racemare Safe Harbour has been retired, after sustaining a tendon injury in the recent Gr1 Cartier Paddock Stakes, where she finished eighth.
Safe Harbour wins the Lanzerac Ready To Run Cup in 2016
The daughter of Elusive Fort, who raced for Chris Van Niekerk and Wehann Smith, was a talented racemare who was unlucky never to win a Gr1 race.
Victorious in the 2016 Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes (where she beat subsequent Gr1 winner Sergeant Hardy by three-parts of a length), Safe Harbour was runner up in all of the Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas, Gr1 Paddock Stakes, and Gr1 SA Fillies Classic, and she was also third in the Gr1 Woolavington 2000, where beaten less than two lengths.
She retires to stud having banked more than R2.7 million in stakes, and Safe Harbour looks a most appealing broodmare prospect.
Bred by the late Jim Antrobus, Safe Harbour, who is out of the Rakeen mare Saint Isidore, is a full-sister to Sean Tarry’s smart filly Saints Alive. Her second dam is Gr1 Lancombe Fillies Handicap winner Saintly Lady, and she is from the same Sister Sublime family as champions National Emblem, Mazarin and Roland’s Song.
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