Querari – top racehorse
“If I win first time out with your Querari will you buy me a Ferrari?”
Those were the apparent words of the bang in-form and charismatic trainer Mike Azzie to his major patron Adriaan Van Vuuren before the speedy Spring Wonder opened Maine Chance stallion Querari’s winner account on debut over the turf 1200m at the Vaal on Thursday.
The familiar orange and black silks of Adriaan and Rika Van Vuuren have become a regular feature of the winner’s enclosure in Gauteng and they look to have bought another smart filly from the highly-rated son of Oasis Dream’s first crop.
Spring Wonder was purchased at the 2013 National Yearling Sale for a sum of R650 000 and is out of the once-winning Joshua Dancer mare, Spring Ahead. She was the second winner on the afternoon for the Azzie-Marwing-Van Vuuren combination.
And leading stallion manager John Freeman will also be thrilled – he announced just three days ago that Freemanstallions had been appointed syndicate managers of the exciting stallion.
Querari – burning the turf
Owned and raced by the Jacobs’ family’s Gestut Fahrhof the G1 Premio Presidente della Repubblica winner Querari (Oasis Dream – Quetena by Acatenango) retired from racing to stand at Maine Chance Farms where he covered his first mares in 2011.
Victorious on debut as a juvenile, Querari won the 2009 G3 Euro-Cup at Frankfurt and registered his biggest career victory in Rome. He retired with a career record of 14-5-3-0.
A high-class racehorse and a top-rated older horse in Germany in 2010, Querari is out of the Listed-placed three-time winning Acatenango mare Quetena.
Acatenango, a three-time Horse Of The Year, hails from the Jacobs family’s founding stock, and is the damsire of this year’s GrI Kentucky Derby hero Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux) and Gr1 Deutsches Derby victor Waldpark (Dubawi).
The second dam is the Classic-winning champion Quebrada (Devil’s Bag).
Acatenango’s sire Surumu is to Germany and Europe what Northern Dancer is to the world.
His illustrious racing career saw him win nineteen times,including an unrivalled sequence of thirteen stakes races in-a-row, equalling the European record. In the same role that he serves in Querari’s pedigree as dam-sire, Acatenango (five times Champion Sire) has accumulated seventy one stakes winners from his daughters and nine Gr1 winners including Animal Kingdom.
“One of the deciding factors that could influence a decision to invest in Querari is the global significance of Oasis Dream and the growing influence he has had on the breed through his many young sire sons: 3 of the top 12 European Freshman Sires are by Oasis Dream, including the Champion Showcasing. With more than 10 sons at stud, we are not alone in our admiration of Oasis Dream. He was generally rated as European Sire of Sires in 2014,” says John Freeman.
Querari has been very well supported at stud.
In his 3rd and 4th seasons he covered 74 and 84 mares respectively with a very high fertility rate.
Ed note:
It will be of additional interest now that Querari has two lots on Sunday’s Val De Vie sale.
#54 is a filly from Ambiance Stud out of the Almushtarak mare, Fairy Song. She could be quick.
#84 is also a filly – this one from Moutonshoek. She hails from a staying family.
