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SPORTING POST • FRIDAY 25th - SUNDAY 27th FEBRUARY 2011 • 2011 CAPE SUMMER YEARLING FEATURE
154 lots Sires
with yearlings at the
Cape Sale Alado ..................................... 1 Alami ..................................... 5 Albert Hall ............................ 8 Announce .............................. 1 Ashaawes .............................. 4 Badger’s Drift ....................... 1 Black Minnaloushe ................ 3 Caesour ................................. 8 Captain Al ............................. 1 Casey Tibbs .......................... 7 Count Dubois ........................ 2 Daylami ................................. 1 Dupont ................................ 10 Dynasty ................................. 2 Eyeofthetiger ......................... 2 Go Deputy ............................ 2 Greys Inn ............................... 1 Imperial Stride ...................... 4 Kabool ................................... 4 King Of Kings ......................... 3 Lake Coniston ....................... 3 Latino Magic ......................... 1 Lithuanian .............................. 3 Lundy’s Liability .................... 5 Miesque’s Approval .............. 2 Mogok ................................... 1 National Emblem .................. 7 Right Approach .................... 3 Second Empire ...................... 1 Spectrum ............................... 3 Stagelight .............................. 1 Strike Smartly ........................ 5 Surging River ......................... 8 Tamburlaine .......................... 1 Tiger Dance .......................... 3 Tiger Ridge ............................ 1 Tobe Or Nottobe ................. 1 Toreador .............................. 1 Trippi .................................... 2 Var ......................................... 8 Victory Moon ...................... 11 Whitechapel ......................... 9 Windrush .............................. 4
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The Cape Yearling Sale has a long and colourful history. From humble beginnings at the Goodwood Showgrounds (where GrandWest now is), a move to Durbnville, then into the countryside, back to the GrandWest site, and into the country again. None of it made any difference to the success of the sale. Top horses, remarkably, originate with regularity from this local event. Pocket Friday Power sold at Durbanville. 4 March Mother Russia and Diana’s Choice at 2011 GrandWest, as did Ivory Trail. Ancestral Fore was a Sandringham purchase. 2.00pm The moral of all this is simple: good Sandringham Farm, horses come from anywhere. Price usuMuldersvlei, ally is an indication of potential. Not all Cape Town expensive horses will be good horses, but most good horses do have a decent Auctioneers price-tag and will sell above the sale Andrew Miller average. Pocket Power, for one, sold for MikeKillassy almost five times the sale average from his year. Buying him took courage, as his sire Jet Master was unknown freshman at the time. Scouting for talent is an art. Some are better at it than others, and manage to find the gems year after year. But there will always be surprises, as in 2008 when Alan Higgins got Ancestral Fore for less than 30k. Some two years later the son of Dynasty had earned more than a million. Jet Master, Dynasty… perhaps the secret lies in buying freshman-sire progeny? This year there are a few: Ashaawes, Imperial Stride, Latino Magic, Lithuanian, and Tobe Or Nottobe – the latter himself a Cape sale yearling in 2002, sold for all of R60k… KAREL MIEDEMA has rounded up the usual suspects, and then some. Take your pick. ALADO (Danzig)
Three-time winning miler (62) Maiko Dancer (Joshua Dancer) is dam of a winner, and comes from an English bottom female line.Her colt is a third foal, inbred 2x3 to Danzig (who is sire of Alado and of Joshua Dancer).
ALAMI (Danzig) Twice winning miler (138) Woodyoubelieveit (Braashee: 1r/ 1w) is half sister to five other winners and comes from a US female line. Her yearling filly has a pedigree bulging with Northern Dancer and Bold Ruler, who are themselves close kin. Juvenile winner (111) Starbright (Fluorescent Light) is full sister to
very useful miler Aura Of Light, and to miler Brightsight, who is dam of a Gr3 placed multiple winner by Jet Master. The female line is American. The yearling offered is half sister to two multiple winners. Winning sprinter (82) Penrose (Rakeen: 6r/1w) has produced three winners from different sires. She has a half brother here. Twice winning miler (57) Light Fantastic (Rambo Dancer) is dam of a multiple winner by Pissaro. The mare’s own dam is half sister to the dam of Gr1 winner Sparkling Gem. This is the female line of Gr1 winner Flying Snowdrop. Three time winnng sprinter (4) Coconut Candy (Rami: 4r/3w) is half sister to five winners from a wide variety of sires. The mare’s grandam is half sister to sires Harry Hotspur and Rotterdam. The yearling colt is a third foal.
ALBERT HALL (Danehill) From the stakes producing female line of Gr1 mare Helenita comes a granddaughter, (81) Parisian Fancy (Captain Al: 1r). She is half sister to two stakes placed winners. Her colt is a second foal. Twice winning miler (88) Protea Girl (Casey Tibbs: 2r/1w) is half sister to a 4-time winner. She has her first foal, a colt bred on a variation of the Danehill x Sadler’s Wells cross. The same is true for the colt out of (153) Bound For Glory (Casey Tibbs: 2r/1w). The mare is daughter of imported stakes winning sprinter Good Tradition, from the female line which also gave us Gr1 performer Karaka One, by Danzig-line sire Volksraad. Twice-raced (98) Second Thought (Comic Blush) is dam of
two 3-time winners, one by Danzig’s son Joshua Dancer. The bottom female line is pretty cool: it gave us Winter Solstice, Mother Russia and Bravura. Three time winning miler (124) Twin Spin (Dancing Champ) is dam of four useful winners, from a real variety of sires. Two of them, both 3time winners, are Danzig male line – just like their yearling half sister on offer. From the same female line origin comes unraced (25) Flying Home (Fine Edge: 1r), who is dam of two winners by Joshua Dancer (Danzig). She hs a filly. Also represented by a yearling filly is (11) Dakota Moon (Fine Edge: 1r). The mare is half sister to three multiple winners, one of them a son of Danzig-sire Becker, placed in the Natal Derby. Their dam is Gr1 sprinter Got The Giggles, to illustrate the wond’rous ways stamina moves.. Twice winning sprinter (110) Star Magic (Russian Revival) has a filly, her first foal. The mare is a daughter of Gr3 placed winning miler Celestial Charm, the latter half sister to champion Roland’s Song, and sired by Freedom Land (by Danzig).
ANNOUNCE (National Assembly) The dam of Announce and Damascus Gate are half siblings, which may explain the relative success of the cross. It’s present also in the yearling colt out of 1300m winner (58) Lily Of Damascus (Damascus Gate: 7r/ 3w/1sw), the mare half sister to four multiple winners conceived by a varied bunch of sires. Their dam Spring Bloom is a Gr2 placed miler, from a strong family.
NEW! ASHAAWES (Kingmambo) Middle distance winner (106) South Of France (Elliodor) has produced four winners to date, two of them stakes placed. The mare is a granddaughter of influential broodmare Sun Lass. On offer a colt. Winning miler (76) Noble Harvest (Enforce) is half sister to a host of black type producing mares. The mare herself fits the bill, as her seven winners to date include stakes winner Noble Century and Gr3 placed Larsen’s Ice. On offer a yearling filly. Lightly raced (127) Vicario (Northern Guest) is half sister to the dams of Gr1 winners Imbongi and Kelly, and of Victory Moon. The mare’s five winners include one by Victory Moon. Her yearling is a colt. continued on page 16