Singapore Double for Sale Graduates
The quick double for BSA graduates highlighted the tremendous value for money that can be found in South Africa
23rd April 2014
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The quick double for BSA graduates highlighted the tremendous value for money that can be found in South Africa
Mick Goss is always enthused when it comes to talking about Summerhill horses, but never more so than around sale time.
Varsfontein is a farm that patiently and carefully cultivates its broodmare band and it is a strategy that has been paying dividends.
There was appreciative applause around the sale ring when Mike de Kock went to R3,4 million for Klipdrif’s Master’s Spirit last year.
Middlefield have a total of 6 yearlings (4 colts and 2 fillies). The one likely to draw the most interest is #111, a half-brother to Tippuana Moon by Var.
One of South Africa’s most consistent sires, Kahal has been represented by five stakes horses this season, including the top-class mare Classic Illusion. Currently eighth
Promising young sire Elusive Fort was represented by yet another first crop winner, when his son Elusive Shade won a good race at the Vaal
From just a handful of runners, Ideal World has been represented by 4 horses who have either won or finished in the money.
Along Came Polly (Judpot), a BSA graduate, scored the second Gr1 victory in the Gr1 L Jaffee Empress Club Stakes
One yearling on offer by leading US sire Stormy Atlantic – whose daughter Up With The Birds, was named Canada’s Horse Of The Year for 2013
Dazzling, a daughter of Galileo and a full-sister to G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Roderic O’Connor, hails from the same family as Lot 343 – a Mambo In Seattle filly.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
