Place of beauty and a home to champions-Avontuur Estate
Avontuur Thoroughbred Farm once again look to have an outstanding draft of yearlings on offer at the 2018 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale next month.
The farm, whose past National Sale graduates include dual Horse Of The Year Legal Eagle, will be represented by 16 top class yearlings at the April sale.
Legal Eagle – wins L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate – again!
A possible standout could well be Watershed (Lot 13) – with this bay colt being a son of the great sire Dynasty and out of champion Pocket Power’s Gr1 J&B Met winning own sister River Jetez. The latter has already left her mark at stud as the dam of Gr3 winner Rivarine.
Avontuur’s resident sire Var, SA’s Leading Sire Of 2YOs in 2016-2017, has four lots in the draft. Among them is Serenity (Lot 98) – a bay daughter of Gr1 SA Fillies Classic winner Bambina Stripes, and Beautiful Mind (Lot 210) – a full-sister to brilliant filly Schiffer.
Oratorio –
Standing alongside Var at Avontuur is European champion and proven Gr1 sire Oratorio. The latter has five yearlings in the draft, headed by Cassimbo (Lot 58) a colt out of a stakes winning daughter of the outstanding sire Cape Cross, Valetorio (Lot 62) – a half-brother to 4 winners including Gr3 winner She’s A Giver, and Vivant (Lot 69) – a half-brother to five winners, including the brilliant Gr2 winners Cold As Ice (also a winner in Britain) and Live Life. The latter has earned over R4.6 million in stakes thus far.
Oratorio also has fillies out of the smart race mares Varikate (winner of the Gr2 Merchants) and Without Malice, in the forms of Before The Dawn (Lot 310) and Ode (Lot 327) respectively.
Jet Master’s son Master Of My Fate has made a smashing start to his stud career and the big bay is the sire of Sea Scape (Lot 26) – a grandson of Gr2 Prix Robert Papin winner Ocean Ridge, while former champion sprinter Captain Of All has two in the Avontuur draft – including Aye Aye (Lot 498) – a beautifully bred half-sister to 7 winners, headed by Gr3 Byerley Turk hero, and big race contender, Mambo Mime.
Captain Of All’s late champion sire Captain Al is the sire of Gabreira (Lot 206) – a colt out of a Gr3 placed daughter of outstanding Australian sprinter and top class sire General Nediym.
Avontuur’s She’s A Giver wins Starling Stakes
Avontuur bred the top class Philanthropist filly She’s A Giver, and they offer a colt by the Drakenstein based chestnut in the form of Lasata (Lot 176). The latter (bred on the same Philanthropist/Western Winter Cross as Hong Kong star Singapore Sling) is out of a winning half-sister to one of this season’s top 3yos in the form of Sir David Baird.
Four time Gr1 winning European champion Twice Over has made an explosive start to his stud career and he is the sire of Double The Fun (Lot 418). The latter is a half-brother to four winners, headed by smart stakes winner Milady.
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