20-22 Jan #2323 Sporting Post

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No. 2323

FRIDAY 20th - SUNDAY 22nd JANUARY 2017

ISSN 1023 / 6996

FAIRVIEW 12:10pm (Friday) p.19

GREYVILLE POLY/NIGHT 5:50pm (Friday) p.26

TURFFONTEIN INNER 12:45pm (Saturday) p.37

KENILWORTH 1:30pm (Saturday) p.45

GREYVILLE 1:05pm (Sunday) p.51

If You Could Buy At Only

ONE SaleIt! This Would Be

W SALE PREVIE ent m le p p u S Pull-out inside

Sun Met

This weekend’s Cape Premier Yearling Sale has truly gone international.

History Is On Our Side

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The Whisky Barons

Who Are The Kieswetters?

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Good To Go? Race In The USA

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The catalogue lists eighteen yearlings by stallions not standing in South Africa, including four by Frankel, a colt and three fillies. Their Irishbred dams are by Invincible Spirit, Holy Roman Emperor and Fastnet Rock (2x)

same Cape sale last year. That’s the equivalent of £350.000 (or some $450.000), depending on exchange rates.

Frankel may well be the most noteworthy sire in the world at present, following the exploits of his first crop in 2016, in Europe and Japan.How high will the buyers be prepared to go?

In the UK, ten Frankel yearlings sold at Tattersalls (Book One) last October, varying in price from 250.000 to 1.6 million guineas. Only three of the ten went for 300.000 guineas or less, one of them a filly bought by Mayfair Speculators for 300.000 guineas.

The current top price for any yearling in SA is R6 million, achieved at this

Not that Frankel is the only (for South Africa) sensational stallion in the

book. Rock Of Gibralter has ten yearlings, all sired abroad, their dams imported in foal. Scat Daddy is represented, as are Pierro, Bernardini, and sire-of-sires Elusive Quality. But don’t underestimate the strength of the local boys. There’s the first local crop of Danehill stallion Duke Of Marmalade, who’s from the (in South Africa) highly successful Lassie Dear family. The Duke’s grandam is half sister to Al Mufti, the sire of Champion sire

Highlands-bred 5yo

Trip T� Heave� won Gr2 Diadem Stakes at Kenilworth - the fourth graded win of his career

See our draft at the Cape Premier Yearling Sales – this weekend at the CTICC, block D&E

Captain Al, and he has two yearling colts and a filly here, out of Al Mufti mares. The proper local freshmen are Gr1 winners Jackson (Dynasty), Master Of My Fate (Jet Master), Pomodoro (Jet Master), Potala Palace (Singspiel). It’s all mighty impressive. Yet top prices at the sale could well again belong to the tried and tested providers of the great stuff – Captain Al, Dynasty, Silvano, Trippi and Var. Are we taking bets that our SA record price will go?

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Tel: Mike Sharkey 082 372 2682 www.highlandsfarmstud.co.za


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