Well-bred Cape Guineas winner William Longsword is having another good season in 2023-2024.
The son of Captain Al (also responsible for hot young sire One World and the Riverton bred sprint champion Captain Of All) ended last season on 68 winners off more than 100 races, with his progeny earning more than R9.584 million in South Africa during 2022-2023.
That season saw William Longsword supply stakes winners Virginia Sweet, Lord William and Gr3 World Sports Betting Legal Eagle Stakes winner ItsRainingWilliam. This season, William Longsword is currently above the likes of Flower Alley, Silvano, and Trippi, among others, on the General Sires List, and has a number of smart sorts to his name.
Lot 48 from Riverton Stud
Among his flagbearers this season are the top-class sprinters Dyce and Rulership, winners of the Gr3 New Turf Carriers Merchants and Gr3 Betway Lebelo Sprint respectively, with Dyce having also captured this season’s Listed Golden Loom Handicap.
Dyce has won six of 13 starts including the 2021 Gr2 Epol Umkhomazi Stakes, while his paternal half-brother Rulership has won his last three starts on the bounce.
Riverton Stud are no strangers to William Longsword. The farm bred William Longsword’s highly talented son Melech, regarded as a possible hope for major feature races this season.
To date, Melech has won five of nine starts, and downed 2023 Gr2 Wilgerbosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas winner Lady Of Power and fellow graded stakes winners Crimson King, Litigation and Gilded Butterfly when scoring at Turffontein last time out.
The farm will be offering another well related son of William Longsword (Lot 48) at the upcoming Cape Racing Premier Yearling Sale Powered By Tattersalls.
This colt, a half-brother to a winner, is out of Moulin Royale – a twice winning half-sister to classy race mare Mill Queen.
The latter won three of her first five starts including the Gr3 HSH Princess Charlene Starling Stakes, beating graded stakes winners Cockney Pride, Palace Of Dreams and Golden Belle, and was also runner up, beaten less than a length by subsequent Equus Champion Gabor, in the Gr1 Thekwini Stakes.
Moulin Royale is out of the three-time winning mare Moulin Grise -whose own dam Mille D’or was an Elliodor half-sister to the stakes winning Dance On Wood, and, further back, this is the family of Gr1 Yorkshire Oaks winner Super Tassa. Mille D’or’s sire Elliodor was an excellent broodmare sire and also ranks as the damsire of highly successful sire Master Of My Fate, as well as such Gr1 winners as Aslan, Cordocelli, Dog Wood, French Navy, Kochka, Trademark, and Val De Ra among others.
Elliodor is also broodmare sire of Gr1 Premier’s Champion Stakes winner Exhilaration – who, like William Longsword, was sired by Captain Al!
This exceptional colt was born at Riverton to a client’s mare. He made such an impression on Duncan Barry and farrier John Gatt, that they bought him as a weanling.
Whilst the Riverside Grooms pinhooked and raised Vercingatorix at Riverton, this dynamic duo are no strangers to pinhooking success.
They have previously pinhooked Gr1 Cape Guineas winner Russian Rock, Dual Gr1 winner Same Jurisdiction and Gr2 Drill Hall champ Tales of Bravery!
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